US tycoon Donald Trump has warned that wind farms could “completely end” tourism in Scotland and the country is “in effect committing financial suicide”. Mr Trump said he would not have built his golf course in the north east of Scotland if he had known about plans to install turbines off the coast there. He [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Also posted in Britain, Economics, Environment, Funnies, Politics, Science, Technology
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Tagged "mad alex", Alex Salmond, Donald Trump, renewable energy, Scottish National Party, scottish parliament, wind power, wind turbine
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Cardinal Keith O’Brien said countries which legalise gay marriage are “shaming themselves” by going against the “natural law,” and should not consider their actions “progress”. He claimed same sex unions were the “thin end of the wedge” and would lead to the “further degeneration of society into immorality.” In a series of controversial comments, he [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Also posted in Britain, Funnies, Law, Marriage, Politics, Religion, Sexuality, Society
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Tagged cardinal keith o'brien, catholicism, gay and lesbian, gay priests, gay rights, holy see, homosexuality, pope benedict, Roman Catholic Church, same-sex marriage, same-sex relationships
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February 23, 2012 – 2:19 am
Apologising for something one does not think is wrong is not very nice. Apart from anything else, it is insincere. I have done it several times in my life, once publicly. The public apology was not a success for anyone concerned (me or those who disliked me), and I have long since retracted it. Sometimes [...]
By skepticlawyer
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Also posted in Britain, England, Fark!, History, Law, Skeptics
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Tagged Adam Lusher, Camilla Long, Charles Moore, Daily Telegraph, kevin rudd, Mary Ann Sieghart, richard dawkins, Stolen generations, stolen generations apology, Tony Abbott, tories who should bloody know better
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February 2, 2012 – 1:52 am
Let’s just say that the Scottish Parliament building (aka ‘Holyrood’) does not inspire universal affection among Scots. I’ve encountered one local tour guide who invited anyone who was interested to lob an RPG into it while he carefully looked in the opposite direction, for example, while a fellow lawyer suggested that it looked like someone [...]
By skepticlawyer
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Also posted in Marriage, Personal liberty, Politics, Public Policy, Religion, Sexuality
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Tagged #equalmarriage, Adam Smith Institute, Clause 28, Edinburgh Gay Men's Chorus, equality network, Joe Fitzpatrick, newt gingrich, paganism, Rabbi Mark Solomon, Ruth Davidson, scottish parliament, the Scotsman, Tom French
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January 31, 2012 – 3:52 am
Welcome to Scotland [NSFW, so lean over your computer before you fall about the place laughing].
January 11, 2012 – 5:07 pm
Scotland’s First Minister Alex Salmond has insisted his government has a mandate to hold a referendum on independence in the autumn of 2014. It comes after ministers in London said such a move would be unlawful without Westminster’s approval. But a spokesman for Mr Salmond said Scottish National Party ministers were “entirely confident” of their [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Also posted in Britain, Law, Politics
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Tagged Alex Salmond, david cameron, hollyrood, michael moore, referendum, scottish independence, Scottish National Party, scottish parliament, scottish politics, SNP, UK Supreme Court, westminster
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December 9, 2011 – 1:12 am
…like, up to 250km per hour in places. Yes, it’s killing wind turbines. A £2 million, 100 metre tall wind turbine catches fire in hurricane-force winds at Ardrossan, North Ayrshire, Scotland. The wind turbine was spinning so fast it caught fire. The engine of the giant turbine went up in flames and its blades were [...]
October 5, 2011 – 3:39 pm
[SL: it is now compulsory, in order to practice in either England or Scotland, to study European Union Law (I managed to evade it at Oxford, just), which I suspect is misconceived, at least on the part of those who rather like the European Union. It exposes the bones of an organisation so badly run [...]
By skepticlawyer
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Also posted in Economics, England, Guest Post
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Tagged Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, default, democratic deficit, England, Euro, European Central Bank, European Union, Greece, scotland, SNP
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August 13, 2011 – 4:50 am
As I pointed out on Legal Eagle’s thread on this issue, I think it’s very important that we take violent crime more seriously than fraud or non violent property crime. Violence does things to people and communities that fraud does not, and eliding this difference or wishing it away will lead us to a situation [...]
By skepticlawyer
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Also posted in Britain, England, Law
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Tagged #england riots, Alex Salmond, Dundee, Edinburgh, Fife, glasgow, metropolitan police, Peel, Peter Oborne, rule of law, Tottenham, Ulpian
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Excusitis, n (med): the condition whereby one is rendered incapable of seeing the faults in one’s political position, particularly with respect to that position’s capacity to facilitate the perpetration of violence. When I was a green young lawyer, I was introduced to the ‘No True Scotsman’ logical fallacy. It’s an old concept (the argument is [...]
By skepticlawyer
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Also posted in Law, Media, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Skeptics
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Tagged Antony Flew, begging the question, Brendan O'Neill, Charles Moore, conservatism, equivocation, Excusitis, House of Commons media committee, Jamila Hussain, margaret thatcher, Neil MacCormick, news corp, Nick Cohen, No True Scotsman, populism, PZ Myers, Rupert Murdoch, Sharia, The Daily Telegraph
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