Clan Donald and Maggie May…but I doubt it

  A wee slice O’ history from the Highlands as we delve into the archives of Clan Donald and put before you never before heard scenes from The Donald’s early years that built his character…his mother’s voice… Donald…Donald!  Where’s yer troosers lad…dinnay be so rood..an dinnay wear yer coat in the hoos, yehl ne’er feel the benefit when ya go ootside…an dinnay bully the wee foreign lad next door…ya ken … Continue reading

The Cold War…on Truth

  So people are sceptical about climate change…what to do?  How about cooking the books, sensationalising the figures, moving the goalposts and lying. The gap between what the climate lobby has marked as the start of global warming and temperatures now is too small and insignificant?  Then move the start point to where the temperature was much colder….voila…a much higher apparent increase in temperature and hence more alarm, more urgency…more … Continue reading

The Lexicon Of Trumpophobia

    Getting quite a collection of BBC invective that is used to describe President Trump. We’ve had the racist, bigot, misogynist, Islamophobe and now he’s in office we get a whole new tranche of inventive invective….. …He’s Goebbels spreading lies and discontent …He’s a climate change denier [who wants to ‘open a war on knowledge’…so again so very Nazi…ala book burning] ….He’s malevolent ….He’s deranged ….He’s is of course … Continue reading

Bonkers in the Bunker

Theresa May is stepping into a hornet’s nest today, a White House at the heart of rows about policy, truth, falsehood and the aggressive vituperative style of so much American political debate. Today’s Justin Webb reports. Terrible, just terrible.  We’re in the Era of Trump and we have a growing mentality that is isolationist, hostile to ‘The Other’, intent on putting up walls to protect your own and willing to … Continue reading

Not again…and again…again…#DespiteBrexit

  One of the BBC’s last desperate resorts to win the EU referendum was to claim that ‘science’ would suffer as ‘EU’ funding was withdrawn.  Curiously this was ‘EU funding’ whilst at the same time the BBC was arguing hard that EU funding was in fact British money anyway, re £350 million, and not really money sent to the evil Brussels. Naturally that was nonsense…funding and investment for science would … Continue reading

Fear and Loathing

  We haven’t down any climate change for a while, taken over by Trump and Brexit as we have been….but here goes…the BBC’s take on Trump’s climate change policies…… Are the recent actions taken by the Trump team on the issues of climate and energy the opening shots in a war on knowledge? So are all these moves evidence of a malevolent mindset, determined to crush all this snowflake climate … Continue reading

Torturing the truth

  Whilst the BBC cheerfully explains away the murder of Jews in Europe by Muslims as justifiable because of what the BBC considers Israel’s ‘war crimes’ in Gaza it reacts with horror, and dishonesty, to Trump’s statement that he thinks waterboarding works and can be justified. The BBC started the day with a brief moment of honesty as it reported that Trump said he would defer to his security and … Continue reading

Vote Democrat and Vote Often

  The BBC is upset…Trump thinks illegal immigrants may have voted in the election….The BBC has mobilised its ‘Reality Check’ team to counter Trump’s lies… Donald Trump and his team have referred to two studies they say show the threat posed by unauthorised voting; both have been challenged. A 2014 study published in Electoral Studies found evidence that suggested non-citizens do vote and “can change the outcome of close races”. … Continue reading

Hissing at Sid

  Shortly before Sid Miller was sworn into office, the newly elected Texas agriculture chief was asked at a conservative policy forum what keeps him up at night. “Bad Mexican food,” he said. Then, after allowing a few moments for laughter:  “Actually, I sleep pretty well, but I do have some long-range concerns as I hold those two grandbabies on my lap, and I happen to wonder: When they have … Continue reading

Mid-Week Open Thread

Emma Barnett…if I was getting paid for this I’d be rolling in it as long as she’s on air.  What a star.  Today’s speciality?  Women MPs, in particular, are under attack….ala Jo Cox…and new recruits are being frightened off.  Well, might suggest alarmist and false claims by the likes of Barnett won’t help.  She told us that one woman was considering taking up the cudgel as an MP but had … Continue reading