Author: Linda Holt

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The changing face of pro-UK politics?

ON FRIDAY I delivered All For Unity and Scotland Matters placards to two farmers, who displayed them in their fields facing main roads. Both happen

May 4, 2021

Today's Thinking

George Galloway: a cat among the pigeons?

THE SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT election on May 6 will be like no other in recent Scottish history. Every local, Scottish and UK election for the last

April 8, 2021

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Tricky Nicky makes smoke by blaming ‘Old Boys Club’ – but is fooling no one

THE SCOTTISH MEDIA has struggled to give due weight to the unfolding scandals of the Scottish government’s role in harassment investigations and proceedings against Alex Salmond.

March 20, 2021

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Is the Rangers fans’ celebrations not a ‘Get it right up ye’ moment?

I AM ABOUT AS FAR as you could get from being a football fan. I’ve never been to a game nor ever wanted to attend

March 7, 2021

Today's Thinking

Sturgeon Watch: When the political is the personal

“Oh, what guid are the poor me’s now?” THIS IS THE EXASPERATED QUESTION Agnes Bain’s mother puts to her drunken daughter when she seeks solace

March 5, 2021

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Life on pause is becoming glorified solitary confinement

I HAVE NEVER felt so out of kilter with the world, or so demoralised. In the summer, as the shock of the initial lockdown was

February 5, 2021

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The First Minister’s Freudian slip

AT THIS WEEK’S First Minister’s Questions, the LibDem leader Willie Rennie had his customary go at Nicola Sturgeon about testing. This time he focussed on

January 23, 2021

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The Covid train is Project Fear on steroids

Linda Holt article from Wednesday 23, December, 2020 WE NOW HAVE Project Fear on steroids in Scotland. Headlines shriek about the mutant virus as if it's an extraterrestrial invader. The First Minister parries questions from the Conservative and Labour leaders at Holyrood with a petrified mien and repeated warnings about "a train … coming down the […]

December 23, 2020

Think Business

ThinkBooks: Poetry, politics and philosophy for self-preservation

Linda Holt article from Tuesday 22, December, 2020 TO MY SHAME I had never heard of Louise Glück, the 77-year-old American poet and essayist who won this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature. But what a delicious discovery when I went online and found many poems by her! (She has published thirteen collections but strangely a […]

December 22, 2020

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Michele Ballantyne’s resignation highlights Scottish Tory blues

REMEMBER that heady time after Better Together when Ruth Davidson seemed to be leading a Scottish Conservative renaissance, throwing off the crusty old image of

November 29, 2020

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It is time to call out the Scottish Government’s Voodoo Data

WHAT IS WRONG with Scotland? For many ThinkScotland readers, the short answer will be nationalism and/or the SNP. But even if the SNP weren’t running

November 17, 2020

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Six is not a number it is arbitrary and dystopian

Linda Holt article from Wednesday 16, September, 2020 WE ARE NOW officially living under the Rule of Six. The police are charged to enforce it. In Scotland, more than six people (not counting children under 12) from a maximum of two households are banned from meeting outside of work, school and certain other specified settings. […]

September 16, 2020

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The changing face of pro-UK politics?

George Galloway: a cat among the pigeons?

Tricky Nicky makes smoke by blaming ‘Old Boys Club’ – but is fooling no one

Is the Rangers fans’ celebrations not a ‘Get it right up ye’ moment?

Sturgeon Watch: When the political is the personal

Life on pause is becoming glorified solitary confinement

The First Minister’s Freudian slip

The Covid train is Project Fear on steroids

ThinkBooks: Poetry, politics and philosophy for self-preservation

Michele Ballantyne’s resignation highlights Scottish Tory blues

It is time to call out the Scottish Government’s Voodoo Data

Six is not a number it is arbitrary and dystopian

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