Robert Burns Enriched Scottish Song With His

The Task Of The Media In A Democracy Is Not To Ease The Path Of Those Who Govern, But To Make Life Difficult For Them By Constant Vigilance As To How They Exercise The Power They Only Hold In Trust From The People.

A Rat Race Is For Rats. We're Not Rats. We're Human Beings. Reject The Insidious Pressures In Society That Would Blunt Your Critical Faculties To All That Is Happening Around You, That Would Caution Silence In The Face Of Injustice Lest You Jeopardise Your Chances Of Promotion And Self-advancement.

Dictators Can Fix Up Their Entire Families In Good Jobs, In Or Around Government, And Often Do. In Democracies, Such A Practice Is Frowned Upon. Privileged Access To The Corridors Of Power Through Family Connections And A Kind Of Old Boys' Network, Is Also Deemed An Abuse Of Power, And So It Is.

The Political Spectrum Is Not Linear But Circular. In My Experience The Extreme Left Always Ends Up Rubbing Shoulders With The Extreme Right. They Are Philosophically Blood Brothers.

When New Labour Came To Power, We Got A Right-wing Conservative Government. I Came To Realise That Voting Labour Wasn't In Scotland's Interests Any More. Any Doubt I Had About That Was Cast Aside For Ever When I Saw Gordon Brown Cosying Up To Margaret Thatcher In Downing Street.