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Fringe no longer defies the norm but plays safe - Sceptical Scot
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Asking Questions. Seeking Answers. Fringe no longer defies the norm but plays safe. Fringe no longer defies the norm but plays safe. August 10, 2015. This year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe slogan defying the norm since 1947 might make for good marketing. But it hardly reflects the role of the world’s largest arts festival accurately. Far from supporting risk, the environment of the Fringe is increasingly one in which playing safe is the best way to avoid losing out. That acts should consider the Fringe in...
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Justin Reynolds, Author at Sceptical Scot
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Asking Questions. Seeking Answers. Archives for Justin Reynolds. Justin Reynolds is a designer and writer. Living in Edinburgh and Israel. Zionism, anti-semitism and the Left. October 31, 2016. So what’s so bad about being a Trotskyist? September 13, 2016. Roch Winds and the illusions of Civic Nationalism. July 29, 2016. A review of a fine new book by three young writers that offers a much needed razor-sharp critique of Scotland’s emerging political monoculture. July 21, 2016. July 13, 2016. A photo tour...
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From Catalonia to Caledonia: Whose right is it? (II)
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From Catalonia to Caledonia. Some politics and a bit of finance. Saturday, 24 July 2010. Whose right is it? Two years ago, I wrote about the double standards of many governments when dealing with the self-determination movements across the world. Sometimes, they are supportive of the right to self-determination –except when they support the principle of territorial integrity. The original post is available here. Let’s hope the Spanish state takes note and ceases to issue veiled threats of military ...
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Lucky Dip - Blind Horse
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To book tickets click HERE. This is Blindhorse’s Lucky Dip. Listen to a sample of Benni Hemm Hemm’s music for the show and view our gallery of photos from the original production at Oran Mor. Click our links of interest that say something of Scotland. It’s here where you can find our latest news and updates. Iain Robertson has been busy working on a charity album for Save The Children to be launched this summer. Check out the Speyside Sessions here: Speyside Sessions Teaser. And any time of night. They a...
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European Union Archives - Sceptical Scot
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Asking Questions. Seeking Answers. Archives for European Union. Art 50 decision restores politics to Brexit. November 3, 2016. 8220;Might there be an early general election? This looks very likely if MPs did succeed in passing a vote that either rejected Theresa May’s Brexit negotiating goals or if they passed a vote for a second referendum on the outcome of the talks… an early general election would result in a Tory landslide and ensure a fairly free hand for May from then on.”. November 2, 2016. Nicola...
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Thom Davies, Author at Sceptical Scot
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Asking Questions. Seeking Answers. Archives for Thom Davies. Tom Davies is Research Fellow at the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences at University of Birmingham. The real Europe for desperate refugees in Calais. August 2, 2015. Three University of Birmingham specialists visit The Jungle in Calais and report on its intolerable conditions – and the real causes of the humanitarian crisis unfolding there. Welcome to Sceptical Scot. What’s new on Sceptical Scot. November 3, 2016. Keep up-to...
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Scottish Constitutional Futures Forum > Opinion and Analysis
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About the SCFF Blog. Tom Mullen: A Tale of Two Referendums. One of the consequences of the vote for ‘Brexit’ in the EU referendum on 23. June has been to focus renewed attention on the Scottish question. In this blog I want to look both forward, to the possibility of a second independence referendum, and backward, to compare the EU referendum with the Scottish independence referendum of 2014. Neil Walker: In, Out or In-Between? Rebooting Britain-in-Europe after the 'Brexit' Referendum. The way in which t...
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Wulf Kurtoglu: December 2011
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Style tips for screivin in Scots. Thursday, 29 December 2011. It’s been suggestit that Modren humans had the edge ower the Neanderthals in social organisation. Yin aspeck o this is trade, sae it’s interestin tae see fae this article Multiple origins of Bondi Cave and Ortvale Klde (NW Georgia) obsidians and human mobility in Transcaucasia during the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic. Be François-Xavier Le Bourdonnec et al. There’s ay some doot whan tryin tae link objecks tae the fowk that made thaim, bi...
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Wulf Kurtoglu: Podcast stertin noo
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Style tips for screivin in Scots. Wednesday, 12 September 2012. Braken Fences* sterts podcastin. Noo on the website o the Scots Language Centre. Ah'd like tae say a muckle great thank you tae Michael Hance an his staff for this opportunity tae publicise the novel. It'll rin for a guid whilie in fortnichtly instalments, an Ah really appreciate the swatch o space the Centre has gien me. For onybody newly veesitin the blog, Ah thocht Ah'd post yince again the lovely Nutan, ma inspiration for Beatrice. Explo...
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Wulf Kurtoglu: March 2012
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Style tips for screivin in Scots. Monday, 5 March 2012. Sailing on the big blue wet thing. This news o seafarin Neanderthals. Fae the New Scientist, comes oot at the ilk time as the announcement o new beuk Across Atlantic Ice. Be Dennis Stanford an Bruce Bradley. They've been pittin furth their idea for a whilie aboot an ice-corridor route. Tae the New Warld. Posted by Wulf Kurtoglu. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Welcome to my blog. My novel, Braken Fences. Also in English as Broken Fences. Explores themes...
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