Catalans Crisis Is Warning To Scots

The Spanish reaction to the 'Catalan Crisis' is one that should give all Scots pause for thought.

Catalan Crisis .... Rocking Not Just Spain.

Not because the UK government would resort to violence and direct rule in the Spanish style. No, but because it indicates that Spain will not countenance any EU rule changes that encourages separatists in Spain, or indeed elsewhere.

Do Bears Crap In The Woods?

Stevenage council has taken steps to stop pigeons roosting in trees around areas of the town centre.

I Think The Pigeon Poop Would Improve It ...... Soulless Socialist Architecture 

Hard to imagine a more futile waste of time and money, but there you are. Of course there are reasons - aren't there always? - it's supposedly because they have just tarted up some of the towns piazzas or squares, and don't want bird droppings ruining their handiwork. Oh and health and safety concerns of course.

History By Numbers

In a story that's going to wind up at least one reader that I can think of, the Dutch pharmacist and retail chain Kruidvat has been forced to apologise, after it unwittingly sold a colour-by-numbers book that upset some customers.

We Don't Do History By Numbers

The book was supposed to show 'famous people', and such significant historical figures as Nelson Mandela, Albert Einstein and Abraham Lincoln.

Cat Got Their Tongues

In this age of the Supra-National state (or so we have been told by EU Federalist's - "Ever closer union" and all that), it's perhaps surprising that some people's want to go the other way and proclaim their independence.

Spanish Police Have Long Had Something Of A Reputation ......

But they do, and democracies have to find ways to handle that. In the UK we allowed the Scottish referendum and probably face another such vote before too long.

Lone Gunmen

What can one say?

Close to sixty people gunned down dead in yet another US mass killing. Stephen Paddock, the man named as the "lone-wolf gunman", was killed as well (although who cares about that snivelling shite?) ....

The US Has An Ambivalent Attitude To Lone Gunmen

..... and so another sorry chapter is added to a list, that is already far too long: