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MUNGUIN'S NEW REPUBLIC 
Well, that set of links is more or less exactly what is wrong with the current consensus at Westminster. Thanks for making the point.
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I thought so 🙂
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And we have the news cover piece for the Scottish Parliament vote.
Someone with a knife got shot outside Westminster by the police…
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Yes. I missed all that. Must be frightening for the people who were there, and clearly dreadful for those who were injured or are dead, but I’m thinking what kind of terrorist attacks parliament with a knife?
Bloody amateur one, I’d say.
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He took a 4×4 along the pavement of Westminster bridge. Right past the statue of Boudicca and her scythed chariot. Irony indeed.
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I am a huge fan of a magazine called ‘Interzone’, which, should anyone around here want to buy it, it is available at:
http://store.clickandbuild.com/cnb/shop/ttapress
But I doubt many of you are into science fiction as an adult media, huh?
Anyway, one of my favorite authors on there has this to say:
http://www.ninaallan.co.uk/
It is interesting that someone like that prefers to be in, and will be welcomed in, Scotland.
I have no commercial interest in either Interzone nor, heaven forfend, Nina Allen.
Is this countercultural enough to appear in Bella?
Well it appeared here first.
Shock horror! Absolutely excellent female Sci Fi author decides to live in Argyll.
For all the right reasons.
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That was a really good piece of writing Douglas.
Thanks for sharing.
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“But I doubt many of you are into science fiction as an adult media, huh?”
Not in my case. I knew Iain Banks, and consider Ken McLeod a drinking companion…
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Well,it’s not my genre really, but I certainly think Iain Banks was a superb author.
I like a good murder, preferably in Scandinavia. I’m really enjoying an Icelandic story at the moment.
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Oh! And she has pictures too. Sadly, not as great as yours.
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The pictures were lovely.
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I don’t think a tory mp ‘chaps’ many doors in Glasgow 😃
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I seriously don;t think that I’d want to if I were a Tory MSP. It was probably in some really posh part where the likes of Maggie “Stairheid” Curran lives. They’ll all be Tories.
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I used to work around some pretty posh areas of Glasgow and it’s hinterland. Whilst there are some tories in big hooses, it is surprising how many, living in them, are not.
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No, not everyone who is well off is necessarily a Tory.
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Chapped lips, perchance, from puckering up to Ms May’s rear end once too often?
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LOL
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That woman has two bars on. Obviously too much money.
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Yes, she should freeze like a proper pensioner!
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