Ian Hamilton QC

I don’t know which started first; the online Scottish Review or this blog.

One things is clear. Apart from permitting me to air a prejudice now and again my blog has no purpose.

The Scottish Review is different. Kenneth Roy’s on line magazine, published several times a week, gives us much to agree with and much to make us snarl.

In short it maintains the essence of Scottish journalism which has leached away from our daily press. We once had a great press. ……………………………………………………………………..no longer.

Click on The Scottish Review. It now has a circulation of nearly 20,000.

Soon its circulation will be greater than the Herald or the Scotsman.

It’s Scotland’s only worthwhile news outlet and commentary.

Four years for a facebook entry.

A few months for an MP who cheats us and is then released early.

Will the Bullingdon Club, the Oxford one you need a claw-hammer jaikit to get intae, be one of the gangs to be put down?

I wonder.

Young people naturally form themseves into peer groups. When does a peer group become a gang?

When the police say so.

It’s cheaper to pay bigger insurance policies than to look after your workers.

‘Value for money,’ was what Mrs T taught us.

Here’s what one of my correspondents remembers of fifty years ago.

‘Moral collapse? The Guid Lord save us and keep us!!!  It looks like He’s the only one that will - seeing as how David C. seems to be agin health and safety regulation. *********** was a textile area in the days before the moral collapse. Mangled hands at best - scalped if you were unlucky. Some survived; I used to sit in terror when we visited such ladies, in case their wigs fell off.  Some didn’t survive at all. I don’t even want to think about what went on in the mines.’

Maybe they’re right. They have a duty to their shareholders.

Will they?

A tiny minority owns most of the wealth.

A slightly larger minority helps them keep it.

A larger minority can afford the things advertised on TV.

A huge majority knows they will never afford the things advertised on TV.

Who is responsible for the ten million a year bankers?

Who is responsible for the wide gap between rich and poor?

Who stands for the poor against the rich?

Milliband? Cameron? Wee Skippy?

Those responsible will be punished.

Don’t make me laugh.

Ian

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The second comment below deserves promotion. I Don’t know who Tris is but he/she says what I think.

Here it is:-

Tris Says:

I’ve only heard one politician question why a normally supine nation has suddenly taken it into their heads to behave like this.

The rest have courted political advantage by simplifying the situation: “they are thugs; they are criminals; they will be punished; they will not get away with this.”

Yep, OK, but why are they thugs and criminals?

From where or from whom do they get their example?

From the royal family which has recently blown its cover and can now safely be described as Tory supporting, not to mention crooked round the edges …eh Andy, Fergie?

Or did they get it from the lords with their ever increasing expenses…according to one of their number 80% are on the fiddle;

Could it have been politicians who systematically stole from us; the Liberals who buried all their principles for a seat at the cabinet table?

Maybe it was the Church with its overarching concerns about the sex or sexuality of its clergy and its hidden horrors of child abuse, and the scant attention it seems to show for other world matters like famine and pestilence?

Perchance it was the Press and their despicable habits of hacking into phones of dead soldiers or missing teenage children and paying off the police?

Or, could it be the police themselves, who it seems are a mixture of bent and terminally inefficient.

No education; no jobs; no housing; no benefits; no life.

Welcome to Cameron’s Britain.

I’m saddened by the looting and the damage, but I’m not even slightly surprised by it, except maybe that it took them this long. I predicted it, as did Nick Clegg incidentally, long before

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A comment has been made to me by email that the following appears to be blocked. Accordingly I have put it on as an addendum. It is worth a read.

http://nathanieltapley.com/2011/08/10/an-open-letter-to-david-camerons-parents/

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