Did all real Scottish fans (i.e. those who do define themselves primarily by the country they love rather than the one they hate the most) nor find all this a bit of an embarrassment?
And as for the First Minister signing a card from that august organ, The Scottish Sun, lauding Maradona’s Hand of God which did for the English in 1986, well...
Can you imagine Angela Merkel popping her name...
I recently reported that my Liberal Democrat News column House Points has developed a curse. Both Jonathan Ross and George Osborne have been struck down by it.Now it has claimed a third victim: Anne Moffat, the Labour MP for East Lothian.Back in April I wrote:I know what’s wrong with the Labour Party these days. It’s called Anne Moffat and sits in the House of Commons for East Lothian.Her crime? Attacking the saintly Norman Baker, that's what.Now J. Arthur McNumpty reports that she has fallen foul of her local party:when discussions started regarding her re-selection, it turned out that her local colleagues were less than enthralled at the prospect ... ... of the six branches in the (Westminster) Constituency, three voted against her gaining an automatic re-selection for 2010 ... and...
The British National Party (BNP) is a small right-wing political party in the UK which has its history based firmly on racism. It has tried to improve its image in recent years, winning a few minor elections at local level, but in the context of national politics it’s a meaningless fringe movement comprised mostly of middle-aged blokes that used to be skinheads and a few nutcases (examples above) that probably get off looking at photos of Eva Braun. In other words, a pathetic motley crew not worth bothering about. Although if you listened to the hysterical trendy lefties that make up today’s UK political and media establishment, you’d think it was the SS and Gestapo having a second coming. Instead of deserved laughter and scorn, the BNP is thereby given attention,...
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A British charity worker in Albania is jailed for 20 years after being found guilty of sexually abusing...
Angus Macleod talking of Salmond:
The First Minister is a resourceful politician and he has a track record of being able to turn reverses into political opportunities. But he has governed so far by a mixture of grand gesture, soundbite, hype and by promising that all our ills will be miraculously cured once we embrace independence in his promised referendum. That approach is past its use-by...
The Scottish Parliament is expected to vote decisively against the introduction of ID...
C.difficile infection is a greater contributory factor to deaths in Scottish hospitals than currently recorded, an expert...
But the tumbleweed really blew through the stunned banquet hall when Sir Sean Connery was named as International Scot of the Year, ahead of Britain's greatest Olympian and hero of Beijing, Chris Hoy.That'll teach the traitor for wrapping himself in the Union...
The South Lanarkshire Extra is a weekly freesheet tabloid distributed to homes in southern Lanarkshire, including the towns of Hamilton, Wishaw, Larkhall, Blantyre and East Kilbride.
It’s been published by Johnston Press (Falkirk) Ltd from their Hamilton offices ever since they acquired the Lanarkshire Extra group from the Archant media group in early 2007.
The group has no website of its own; the link given below is to Johnston’s paid weekly tabloid for Lanarkshire, the Lanark Gazette.
There are two other newspapers in the group: the North Lanarkshire Extra and the Strathaven Extra.
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Prostitution in Aberdeen has spread into the city centre since a tolerance zone was abandoned because of a change in the...
As Diego Maradona prepares to return to the forefront of international football it is quite fitting that he will make his managerial debut of the Argentine national squad in the cauldron of all English hatred, Hampden Park. Anyone that can somehow contribute to the demise of the England national football team is embraced with great affection north of the border, and it is no surprise that Maradona has been afforded cult hero status once again as he prepares his side to face Scotland in a friendly on Wednesday.
Before we get going let me preclude this by stating that in his prime Maradona was one of the best players to have ever played the game. His talents and skills driving the midfield of a powerful Argentina team made them a fearsome force in the sport. In terms of technical...
Wednesday:Thanks to the The Today Programme, we learn that it is 75 years since the first photo was caught of Mr Jim McNaughty Nessie, the Famous Monster of Loch Nessie.Now, thanks to HootTube we have this EXCLUSIVE new...
Nicola Sturgeon says an organ donor opt-out system is not off the agenda in Scotland, after it is rejected by a UK...
One in five care services in Scotland fail to make proper checks on staff, the care regulator...
The financier behind a move to find another bidder to take over HBOS says he was discouraged from finding an...
A ban on cut-price alcohol could be introduced next year under plans to curb alcohol abuse among young...
O'Neill has pointed out previously that controversy about a UK team for the 2012 Olympics is premature. Perhaps it is last night's attendance at Belfast Beer Festival, but I'm really struggling to understand exactly what the story is in this article from Scotland on Sunday.FIFA has been urged to investigate allegations of "political interference" in the row over football's Team GB for the 2012 London Olympics. If Fifa finds Scotland and the other three home associations guilty, it could suspend or even expel them from international competition until the governmental interference stops, as recently happened with the Polish FAThe most glaring error first. Poland has not been suspended or expelled from international competition. On the contrary, Poland is in Northern Ireland's World Cup...
Urgent action needs to be taken over the "escalating" use of methadone to treat addicts, it is...
United Nations cultural attachés,Edinburgh v Glasgow,and is..."Narrow-minded nationalism is crushing Scottish Culture?"Stormer of an article in The Times from Jenny Hjul:The Year of Homecoming is, increasingly, a nationalist propaganda exercise, complete with clan gatherings, to mark the 250th anniversary of Robert Burns’s birth, and what it has to do with musical excellence is anyone’s guess. But in the new Scotland, culture is only culture if it is cloaked in a Saltire and plays the bagpipes. Ministers will find money to support the arts if they comply with the nationalist mission statement. None of the cash-strapped festival directors sniff at £200,000 hand-outs to “promote and extend the involvement” of Scottish artists, but they are not in their jobs to celebrate Scotland....
Difficult times in the property market prompt an estate agent to hold a one-day cut-price house...
Standing near the head of Glen Affric as darkness falls, I listen to the creak of an old pine tree bending in the wind. There are few trees here, and those that do survive are twisted and stunted by the severity of weather conditions: it's only mid-October, but there is already plenty of snow on the ridges to add to the savage beauty of the valley. The map labels much of this area as forest, but that is simply medieval nomenclature, a time when the word indicated a deer-hunting ground rather than trees. It is certainly not what we would call a forest now: most of the ground here is tussocks of heather and sphagnum mosses. My guide Gordon Birnie, however, points to some pale green feathery sprigs dotted among the heathers. "Scots Pines. These have self-seeded."That makes it sound a random...
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This is all getting rather tedious:British Olympic football team would not jeopardise the international status of the home nations, it is claimed. Scottish Secretary Jim Murphy has gained assurances from Fifa that a one-off under-23squad in 2012 would not impact on the home teams' standings. The football governing bodies of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland all oppose a Great Britain team.And you probably know the rest: First Minister Alex Salmond described Fifa's assurances over a Team GB in 2012 as "daft".It's not the assurance which is daft, it's the fact that everybody is getting so worked up over a matter which can't be decided, ratified or whatever you want to call it, until FIFA meets in Japan (and I think it's actually january rather than December as the article states):A FIFA...
A key weapon in the fight against wildlife crime could be lost because of changes to European agricultural policy, the RSPB...
Scottish house prices suffer their biggest quarterly fall for 16 years, according to research by Lloyds...
A postman who hid camera inside a bedside clock to film a woman undressing, is handed an 18 month...
Legislation to fine people for wrongly parking in disabled bays is to move a step closer to becoming...
There is a "high probability" that the Scottish economy will go into recession next year, an economic forecast...
The latest unemployment figures released later on Wednesday are expected to show a rise in people out of...
The Bank of China's bid to take over HBOS has been called off. The reason that China's second biggest bank walked away was apparently because of a cold shoulder from the Treasury who seem to be the only people still keen on the original, now stalled, Lloyds-TSB deal. Even the Lloyds-TSB board aren't as keen as the Treasury regarding their intitial proposal.
The Treasury have denied this...
