Billy MacInnes @billymac1967@mastodon.scot

So many good lines in this piece by Richard Murphy. "Anyone who thinks that problem is best addressed by punishing those already least well off whilst rewarding those most well off is promoting an economic policy that looks as if it was designed as an instrument of old-fashioned class warfare. When that policy also cannot work it looks as if it is about something worse than that: it is instead about deliberately crushing people." https://www.thenational.scot/politics/20117566.richard-murphy-nothing-moral-another-recession/

This is the problem with so much unionism in Scotland: that it portrays “Scotland to the world as a backward nation of cultural savages”. https://www.thenational.scot/politics/20112105.george-foulkes-shows-eight-years-labour-still-delight-putting-scotland/

Russian ambassador should be given a public dressing down and threatened with expulsion over this. How many times do these people need to be told, it’s Ireland AND Britain, NOT the British Isles. https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/taoiseach-condemns-sinister-russian-tv-report-showing-nuclear-attack-on-ireland-1.4868521

The turf wars are symptomatic of the Irish government's refusal to lead in the fight against climate change but performative politics won't save the planet. Governments need to lead.

https://thewriteplace.ie/sustainability/for-peats-sake-stop-the-turf-wars-fight-climate-change

Fair play to Dublin City Council. The national policy is absurd, short termist and seems designed to help some people make a quick buck in housing at the expense of those who need it. https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/dominance-of-build-to-rent-in-dublin-unsustainable-says-council-chief-1.4867020

Billy Kay talking about the neglect of the Scots language, describing Scotland as “a country that’s been looking over its shoulders for three centuries for the approval of another culture.” https://www.thenational.scot/news/20106746.i-dont-think-scots-language-will-normalised-independence--says-billy-kay/

Strange new plant sprouted today

I’d forgotten just how good Lou Reed’s New York album is

Thanks for taking Scotland out of the EU. Yet another Brexit benefit. https://www.thenational.scot/news/20095705.scots-lose-eu-funding-vow-falls-short-brexit-promises-minister-says/

Here are some things that interest me. #music #politics #films #sustainability #books #media

There may be a few tweets and retweets here for a bit as I’ve linked my twitter and mastodon accounts for the time being.

I became much more passionate about Scottish independence after moving to Ireland and seeing how liberating it is for people to live in an independent country. To understand just how significant independence is, there are few, if any, people in Ireland who would ever vote to rejoin the UK.