[Where is the Scottish Executive when you need them? Why are they not protecting Scottish firms?-ed]
More than half the workers at a 175-year-old textile company in the Scottish Borders have lost their jobs after the firm went into receivership.
John Laing, of Hawick, which has had a turnover of £3.5m and employed 95 people, [...]

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Yes. St. Andrew’s Junior and Infants is 150 years old. Imagine that. Having a name last that long. Why, it must be because the name means something to all who have gone through that school as well as the stature of the institution in the community and surrounding regions.
But naturally that means zip to Muslims [...]

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Special £1,000 bagpipes have been gifted to a Paisley schoolboy, who was told to stop practising his instrument outside by the local council.
Renfrewshire Council said Andrew Caulfield, 13, was breaching anti-social behaviour law noise limits.
After hearing about the young piper’s plight, professional piper Fred Morrison decided to donate the pipes, which are quieter than [...]

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Ancient tools found in Britain show that humans lived in northern Europe 200,000 years earlier than was previously known, at a time when England’s climate was warm enough to be the home of lions, elephants and saber-tooth tigers, scientists announced Wednesday.
The 32 black flint artifacts, found in river sediments in Pakefield in eastern England, [...]

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Production at Rolls-Royce’s Hillington plant on the outskirts of Glasgow has ended after 65 years.
A closing ceremony celebrated the success of the facility, which began producing aircraft engines in 1940.
A Rolls-Royce spokesman said the plant played a key role the in Scotland’s social history, the World War II war effort and in jet engine [...]

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Kenny Smith, (pictured) Scottish Secretary reports.
Today (30th November) Scot’s the world over will be celebrating St. Andrew’s Day, while single Scottish ladies will be looking for the sign that says their wish had come true!
That’s because traditionally girls prayed to St. Andrew around midnight on the 29th of November asking for a [...]

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Scotland’s oldest man and the country’s longest surviving veteran of World War I has died at the age of 109.
Alfred Anderson, who served with the 5th Battalion the Black Watch, died in a nursing home in Angus.
Mr Anderson was born in 1896 and was in one of the first British contingents to [...]

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A TRADITION of white performers “blacking up” to perform a Black and White Minstrels stage show has been brought to an end after council leaders stepped in.
Angus Council feared that the show could spur legal action for “portraying racial stereotyping”. The group has also changed its name to the Angus Minstrels.
The Angus Black [...]

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HE gave the world arguably the most iconic Scottish film ever made but a US remake which adds a swarm of killer bees and changes the sex of a pagan lord has proved too much for Robin Hardy.
The original director of The Wicker Man has called in his lawyers to have his name taken [...]

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50 years have passed and Scotland fares worse.
Key points
Scotland’s population increasing due to rise in immigration
Largest rise in population for 50 years
Executive calls figures ‘encouraging’, but the SNP disagrees

Key quote
“We have the statistics but what we don’t have is why there were more births, why people stayed in Scotland and why many more people made [...]

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Europeans are resisting multiculturalism and immigration
by David Mullenax
The current mantra from the liberal political elites is that Europe needs immigrants to offset falling birthrates. Since European birthrates are below replacement level, immigrant advocacy groups and their puppets in various governments are using the statistics as justification for the continued influx of foreigners to keep their [...]

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Britain now has the worst heroin problem in Europe according to the annual report from International Narcotics Control (INC), published on 2nd March.
TODAY, 90% of the heroin reaching Britain comes from opium poppies grown in Afghanistan, and the INC report reveals that since the invasion of Afghanistan there has been a twenty- fold increase in [...]

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Female police chief demands more hiring of ethnic minorities
A SENIOR official is calling for radical change in UK employment law: legalize Affirmative Action. Julie Spence, Cambridgeshire’s Deputy Chief Constable, believes that ethnic minorities should be hired before White candidates even if they have the same qualifications.
Spence is one among many police officers who reject [...]

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24 cases of LGV infection in UK homeland
An editorial in the journal Sexually Transmitted Infections has revealed that in January 2005, the first 24 cases were reported in the UK, mostly from sexual health clinics in London. All were in gay men, 17 of whom were HIV positive, four also had hepatitis C infection.
Five thought [...]

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WHEN the all-conquering armies of ancient Rome failed to subdue the northern end of Britain, there had to be a good reason.
So the Romans decided it was not the primitive barbarians known as the Caledonii who had defeated them, but the vast impenetrable forest covering the country now known as Scotland.
However, a new [...]

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SINCE time immemorial, the ability to say “it’s a braw bricht moonlicht nicht the nicht” has separated the Scots from every other race on the planet.
But no more. New research shows that, even in the north-east of Scotland, the heartland of the rich Doric dialect, the use of the velar fricative – the “ch” [...]

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Sunday 28th November – St. Andrew’s Day Parade in Aberdeen !

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Live concert (55′) : Watch it !

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A Retelling of the Struggle between Rome and Carthage
From the earliest days of the Republic, Rome had been on friendly terms with Carthage, a city-state in northern Africa. Since Rome was largely agricultural and interested mainly in Italy, it had no reason to bother with Carthage, which was largely a sea power. As late [...]

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An introduction to the life and works of Ernst Jünger, 1895-1998, together with bibliographies and some critical perspectives.
www.juenger.org

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