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Cavemen With God On Their Side: Hope, Equality and The Politics of Change

By The People's Republic Of Escotia on July 22, 2015

Many years ago I worked in the North East of England and was lucky enough to have digs with a couple who were involved in the Disability Movement and who were incredible […]

Who Is Up for A Collaborative Joint Enterprise – New Structures For Co-Creation

By The People's Republic Of Escotia on July 17, 2015

Paul Mason’s been at it again. He has been writing in an inspirational way about what the solutions to our present frustration with the ‘system’ might be. In his article for the […]

Scotland’s Economy is Not Greek But, Both Countries Require Braver Socially Just Politics

By The People's Republic Of Escotia on July 15, 2015

There are 11.1 million people in Greece and 5.3 million people in Scotland.  Scotland shares some similarities with Greece.  For example, both countries: eat a haggis type dish; have tourism as a […]

A Long Lost Love or a Serial Abuser – What Is Our Relationship With The Labour Party?

By The People's Republic Of Escotia on July 13, 2015

One of Christie Moore’s most famous songs is called ‘Ride On’.  The song was crafted by the song writer Jimmy McCarthy (a former apprentice Jockey) and many people have questioned what the […]

Political Red Herrings, Childhood and Butterflies – Let Us Stand Together and Learn lessons From Billy Jean King

By The People's Republic Of Escotia on July 8, 2015

My last post mentioned red herrings? Aye, there have been lots of red herrings put about in recent weeks by apparent experts and there is a danger that we get side-tracked post […]

‘The Fallen Woman’, Experts and #Slutgate

By The People's Republic Of Escotia on July 6, 2015

My hope, when posting entries to this blog, is that the words will be encouraging to the people who read them.  My writing seeks to build on the Social justice concept of […]

#ScotsGreekSolidarity – Happy 4th of July

By The People's Republic Of Escotia on July 4, 2015

Have a watch of this very quick video from a young person about Greek austerity and then come back for my analysis towards the end of this post. Why did I walk […]

Difference, Happiness, The Internet and Yes – #LoveWins

By The People's Republic Of Escotia on June 30, 2015

Pat Kane sent a tweet out today which highlighted an article which quoted Richard Rorty.  My long lost fife accent came back suddenly and I uttered the expletive, ‘well fuck me, who’d i’ […]

Gal Holiday and the Honkey Tonk Revue rock Woodland Creatures with a mix of rockabilly twang, gospel and country classics.

By The People's Republic Of Escotia on June 29, 2015

I first encountered Gal Holiday and the Honkey Tonk Revue at the ‘Three Muses’ Frenchmen Street on a work trip to New Orleans last August and was immediately struck with their ability […]

500,000 more children were put into absolute poverty in the last government, 4.1 million Children are still experiencing absolute child poverty and the Tories are gloating about the figures?

By The People's Republic Of Escotia on June 25, 2015

When Labour came to power in 1997 the previous conservative government left a situation where relative child poverty (60% of median income) before housing costs were 27 % (3.4 million) and after […]

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