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andrewducker- Scotland's vaccination programme is likely to slow down later this month because of supply problems
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- GameStop missed out on capitalizing on the Reddit rally
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- Leprechaun 'is not a native Irish word' new dictionary reveals
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- Nicola Sturgeon backed by majority of SNP support over Joanna Cherry sacking. Majority support GRA reform
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- The Good Friday Agreement is now the most important single document in the constitution of the United Kingdom
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- Stop cats from bringing in wildlife by playing with them more and feeding them a meat-rich diet
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- Houston Doctor Fired for Giving Away Doses of Covid Vaccine (that would have been wasted. Such a stupid court case)
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- 'Brooklyn Nine-Nine' to End With Season 8
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- Mark Kermode's pretentious review of an empty cinema
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- This perfectly sums up my dislike for Adam Curtis "documentaries"
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- Rewilding: Beavers to be reintroduced in record numbers across England and Wales this year
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- Have some fun, ridiculous chess variants
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(tags:chess ) - How the language people use changes during a breakup
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Date: 2021-02-12 03:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-02-12 03:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-02-12 05:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-02-15 09:56 am (UTC)I mean even you wouldn't vote Tory if they had a better record on trans-rights.
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Date: 2021-02-15 09:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-02-15 11:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-02-15 12:11 pm (UTC)But I'm not a single issue voter on that.
Or Independence.
Because much though I hope that we vote a party in and we get independence, if we don't we'll still have them running the country for five years.
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Date: 2021-02-16 09:55 am (UTC)https://scotgoespop.blogspot.com/2021/02/stunning-electoral-breakthrough-for.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+ScotGoesPop+(SCOT+goes+POP!)
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Date: 2021-02-16 10:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-02-16 10:21 am (UTC)1) we have won this election which we consider to be the electorate instructing us to begining negotiations on indepedence
and
2) we have won this election, we are now independent.
It may be that it is a distinction without a difference.
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Date: 2021-02-16 10:24 am (UTC)I really can't see (1) being useful for much more than getting more Scottish people annoyed that the English are saying No.
If they don't take a majority as a mandate for a referendum (that would then lead to negotiations) I don't see how they would take it as a mandate for skipping the referendum and going straight to the negotiation.
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Date: 2021-02-16 10:39 am (UTC)That's probably fair comment.
It has the advantage internally to the independence movement of demonstrating that the current leadership are trying and externally of demonstrating serious and consistent majority support and probably establishes as a fact that the will of the Scottish people for self-determination is being thwarted by the English government.
Not sure that it gets you much further than that.
I personally would be uncomfortable about formally reading too much in to using the May '21 elections as a proxy plebiscite. I think it would be fair for the Unionist community to say that nobody asked them if the May '21 election was going to be a proxy for indyref 2 and they were voting about schools and Police Scotland etc and the reckoned quite a few SNP voters were too.
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Date: 2021-02-16 12:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-02-16 12:54 pm (UTC)Using a general election as a plebescite on a single issue should come at the backend of a process of trying to resolve that controvosy through other, more suitable methods, rather than as a short-circuit to it.
As it is, no voter in Scotland can be in any doubt that the SNP winning the election in May is going to lead to a referendum but they still might have other considerations they want to vote on.
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Date: 2021-02-16 01:16 pm (UTC)Have some fun, ridiculous chess variants
Date: 2021-02-22 07:44 pm (UTC)Howl's Moving Castle: less ridiculous than you might think. There's a medieval chess variant (Tamurlane's Chess) that includes a "prince" -- if the King is checkmated, it can swap places with the Prince. And the King's Pawn can promote to another Prince. And the Prince's Pawn can promote to a King's Pawn. So yes, you can sometimes have to checkmate four times.
For truly insane, an SCA friend has just made me a set of Meta-Chess, which is a big chess set that carries a small chess set on top, so you're playing the game at multiple levels at once...