Deid

[stewarty27]

Scott is still active on the left, and is a Dons fan too. I bump into him infrequently in town. I haven’t been a member of any political party since the only one I ever joined folded the weekend the Dons won the league in 1980. Nothing tempts me.

You a Trot Min ?

[57vintage]

You a Trot Min ?

I dinna ken, min. Too many labels, too much factionalism. People’s Front of Judea, or Judean People’s Front, and that?

Marx is the DNA, like the car on my driveway owes much to the likes of the 1904 De Dion Bouton, but the re-interpretations and situational applications have to be taken into account. I leave the blinkered, one-size-fits-all centralising paternalism to dull, unimaginative institutions like the current régime in Edinburgh which has few principles beyond the obvious, and even that seems to be on the back burner.

[Mason89]

Splitter

[stewarty27]

I dinna ken, min. Too many labels, too much factionalism. People’s Front of Judea, or Judean People’s Front, and that?

Marx is the DNA, like the car on my driveway owes much to the likes of the 1904 De Dion Bouton, but the re-interpretations and situational applications have to be taken into account. I leave the blinkered, one-size-fits-all centralising paternalism to dull, unimaginative institutions like the current régime in Edinburgh which has few principles beyond the obvious, and even that seems to be on the back burner.

It was said tongue in cheek. Reason being you mentioned you joined a party late 70s 80s. And I immediately though WRP or the "Trots" as they used to be called no offence intended. Your reference to the People’s Front of Judea, or Judean People’s Front, was exactly the point I was trying to make about the SSP how left wing groups tend to eat themselves, The current regime in Embra is what the people of Scotland voted for including myself but TBH its a bit of a Hobsons choice given the state of the opposition. I'm not a member of any party tho have been in Labour and the SNP. These days I take most of my inspiration from the Common Weal and the writings of Robin McAlpine and the likes. I strongly believe the status quo is no longer an option for Scotland but Independence is the most socialist chance we have. PS get yersel a new car

[57vintage]

Splitterse

$exist.

[donsdaft]

It was said tongue in cheek. Reason being you mentioned you joined a party late 70s 80s. And I immediately though WRP or the "Trots" as they used to be called no offence intended. Your reference to the People’s Front of Judea, or Judean People’s Front, was exactly the point I was trying to make about the SSP how left wing groups tend to eat themselves, The current regime in Embra is what the people of Scotland voted for including myself but TBH its a bit of a Hobsons choice given the state of the opposition. I'm not a member of any party tho have been in Labour and the SNP. These days I take most of my inspiration from the Common Weal and the writings of Robin McAlpine and the likes. I strongly believe the status quo is no longer an option for Scotland but Independence is the most socialist chance we have. PS get yersel a new car

He diznae need a new car.
He only uses the one he has for reversing into parking spaces at the supermarket.

[stewarty27]

He diznae need a new car.
He only uses the one he has for reversing into parking spaces at the supermarket.

Dinna get me started !!!!!!

[57vintage]

Dinna get me started !!!!!!

At your age you’d need jump leads. If you’re still capable of a jump, like.

[stewarty27]

At your age you’d need jump leads. If you’re still capable of a jump, like.

Jump leads ! If my body was a car I'd definitely trade it in for one o they back to the future cars. Even getting my exhaust to stop backfiring would be a start. Never mind Mrs Stewarty thinks I'm a classic model

[57vintage]

Tom Nairn. A good old fashioned Left winger we seldom see the likes of these days.

I’m nae Hassan’s biggest fan. Like many in the media, he “supports Dundee United” which automatically sees him in the Cûnts category ie safe, bland, timid, feart to make a Proper Mannies’ choice of a Proper Mannues’ club, probably takes a black and orange teddy bear to matches with him, and assaults Funso Ojo, and sometimes his analyses are a bit under-powered when he presents his opinions as facts. Good resumé of Comrade Nairn here, though:

https://www.scottishreview.net//GerryHassan644a.html

[stewarty27]

I’m nae Hassan’s biggest fan. Like many in the media, he “supports Dundee United” which automatically sees him in the Cûnts category ie safe, bland, timid, feart to make a Proper Mannies’ choice of a Proper Mannues’ club, probably takes a black and orange teddy bear to matches with him, and assaults Funso Ojo, and sometimes his analyses are a bit under-powered when he presents his opinions as facts. Good resumé of Comrade Nairn here, though:

https://www.scottishreview.net//GerryHassan644a.html

Decent review for a intellectual pigmy (Hassan) compared to Tom.

Quid pro quo.

https://robinmcalpine.org/scotland-had-one-intellectual-and-then-he-died/

[57vintage]

Decent review for a intellectual pigmy (Hassan) compared to Tom.

Quid pro quo.

https://robinmcalpine.org/scotland-h...-then-he-died/

That’s very good. A mark off for using ‘gotten’ though. Fuçking Yankeeisms.

[InversneckieDob]

I'd heard of Mr Nairn, but am shamefully deficient in my knowledge of his written output.

Two good articles which I think lead onto a wider discussion on anti-intellectualism in both politics and wider society.

I'm reminded of a quote from Barack Obama -
"In politics and in life, ignorance is not a virtue. It’s not cool to not know what you’re talking about. That’s not keeping it real or telling it like it is. That’s not challenging political correctness. That’s just not knowing what you’re talking about.”

Simplifying debate, "dumbing down", is not good.
But it's the norm.

[57vintage]

Sylvia Sims is deid (89). Adolescent self-abuse fantasy in the classic Ice Cold In Alex, where a scene was cut due to an extra blouse button coming undone. I think a still of it was printed in John Mills’s autobiography.

She also starred with the great Mills in Flame In The Streets, an early (1961) examination of post-Windrush racism in London.

https://youtu.be/ouYKeeTz7Yw

[InversneckieDob]

File that one under "thought she'd died years ago".
A comely lady back in the day and an accomplished actor.
Did she nae portray "Hooor whose name shall not be spoken" in a film or TV programme?

RIP quine.