From Catalonia to Caledonia

Source : http://xkcd.com/386/

We never learn. 

Ahh, what a fantastic day I had yesterday aboard the beautiful Waverley paddle steamer on the Ayrshire coast. http://www.waverleyexcursions...

Two years ago, I wrote about the double standards of many governments when dealing with the self-determination movements across the world. S...

Watching from afar, via the Catalan news channel www.3cat24.cat , the massive civic demonstration in Barcelona against the ruling by the Sp...

Regular readers will have noticed that there has been an hiatus in this blog. Sometimes life takes over in unexpected ways. Amongst other st...

Well, well, well…. Who would have thought it? Steven Purcell, leader of Glasgow City Council and rising star of the Scottish Labour Part...

A lot has been, is being and will be written about the state of Spanish banks and the Spanish economy.  One of the reasons I do not write mo...