My first reaction on reading Toni Giugliano's column in the Sunday National was disbelief. Genuine disbelief. Here was a leading figure in the SNP saying all the right things. I don't believe it. And that is the problem for Toni Giugliano and the SNP. Even if they now start saying the things we want to … Continue reading The credibility problem
That Toni Giugliano is an idiot has already been established. But it seems that his earlier remarks fomenting division in the independence movement by defining exclusive and excluded categories was not as I had supposed an utterance born of careless idiocy, but a statement of quite deliberate idiocy. In this report from The Sunday National, … Continue reading By invitation only
With considerable justification, I may be accused of overusing the word 'idiot'. I hold up my virtual hands. I do use the term a lot. Two possible reasons for this come immediately to mind. It could be that I lack the vocabulary which would allow me to ring the changes with alternatives. The English language … Continue reading Here be idiots
Haven't we been here before? It's like déjà vu on an endless loop. It's like somebody lost the last two reels of Groundhog Day. It's like the entire independence movement has come under the leadership of the Grand Old Duke of York.
Peter A Bell 