For Auld Lang Syne
By Max Musson: We are now just a week away from an historic vote which may very well result in a political separation of Scotland from the rest of the United Kingdom, and in the news we have David Cameron, the Prime Minister of the UK, apparently pleading with Scottish voters not to ‘break his heart’. During the last week we have in fact seen almost all of the ’big beasts’ of the establishment parties venturing north of…
Nationalism and Idiocy
By David Yorkshire: One of the things that has captured my attention recently has been the events in the Ukraine. The reasons why all this has happened are readily evident, of course: the European Union and the USA have joined forces (despite the public facade of mutual animosity) to destabilise the democratically elected Ukrainian government under President Viktor Yanukovych for two main reasons. The first is to install a puppet government so that the Ukraine’s…