I saw this story on Scotsman.com today about the Scottish Parliament’s Public Petitions Committee attempting to reach out by using social media. Of course, I am all for the correct use of social media as a sensible and low-cost way for any...
Topics: Blogging, e-petitions, Internet, Media, Newspapers, podcasts, Politics, public petitions committee, rss, Scotland, scotsman, Technology, wiki, wikipedia, youtube

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One thing that really stuck me about the leaflets from Ukip and the BNP for the recent European Parliamentary election was the fact that they were stuffed full of cheesy patriotic symbols — Union Flags, Spitfires, Winston Churchills and so on. Any..
Topics: bnp, civic nationalism, election, english democrats, ethnicity, europe, extremism, france, french national front, hungary, immigration, movement for a better hungary, nationalism, patriotism, Politics, racism, Scotland, snp, spitfire, ukip, violence

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A bit like the UK-wide result, but even more so, the result in Scotland was very static. In fact, in many ways, the outcome was totally predictable, and no seats changed hands.But that doesn’t mean there weren’t any stories though. Indeed, it.
Topics: arthur scargill, bnp, christian party, christian-peoples-alliancey, conservatives, duncan robertson, election, greens, labour, no2eu, Politics, Scotland, snp, socialist labour party, solidarity, ssp, ukip, united kingdom

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The Europe-wide pictureThe consensus seems to be that, Europe-wide, it was a good election for the centre-right. It certainly seems as though the governing centre-left parties have taken a bit of a battering, while voters seem content with centre-right...
Topics: bnp, capitalism, conservatives, credit crunch, election, europe, european free alliance, european people's party, european united left, euroscepticism, eurosceptics, fascism, greens, independence / democracy, labour, left, Make My Vote Count, nick griffin, nordic green left, party of european socialists, Politics, racism, respect, right, socialism, ssp, surveys, ukip, wales, westminster

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Despite my lukewarm relationship with football, I was very sad to hear about the death of Dumbarton FC captain Gordon Lennon yesterday. He was killed in a car crash while on a family break. Just a few weeks ago, in the first football match I had attended.
Topics: death, dumbarton, dumbarton fc, football, gordon lennon, Scotland, sfl, Sport

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