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Mental health and social…
According to Help Guide studies have found a strong link between social media abuse (using it too much) and mental health issues. You are more likely to suffer from depression,…
Thursday April 15
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How to spot a…
Before I learned what narcissism meant, the only person I could think of was someone like Tony Stark as I did not fully understand the concept of it until recently. That original perception was naïve to think…
Tuesday March 30
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Most popular drugs used…
How do drugs and alcohol affect mental health? From taking drugs and drinking alcohol recreationally to using it for self-medication purposes, everyone has their reasons for indulging. If using it…
Tuesday March 30
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Rarest forms of mental…
Rarest forms of mental health issues Did you know that one in four people will experience a mental health issue of some kind each year? According to Mind charity, one in six…
Tuesday March 30
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Positive tips on to…
1. Exercise Can be any form of sport as long as you're putting in the effort to get a sweat. My preference is cycling as it increases self-esteem and reduces…
Tuesday March 30
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Top 3 talking points…
1. How many trophies will The Rangers win? The Rangers have impressed many this season by not only winning their first-ever SPFL trophy but have the opportunity to finish the…
Monday March 29
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My Scotland squad for…
Substitutes: Gordon, Robertson, Dykes, Fraser, Armstrong, McKenna, McGregor, O'Donnell, Forrest, Shinnie, McLean Do you agree with this line-up? Is it too defensive? Who would you replace? Please let us know…
Monday March 29
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Fact file: Alba Party
With the Scottish elections fast approaching this May, we as voters have to think about which party to vote for. SNP, the Conservative Party, Labour, Green Party, Liberal Democrats, and…
Wednesday March 31
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Supporting Independent Scottish Media
With all the goings on just now with the BBC and alleged copyrighted videos being the cause of the removal of a couple of independence supporter's accounts on youtube. I wonder what , or who is next? So it is important to show support for the Scottish independent media.
Below are RSS Feeds to some of the top websites. You can add them to your own Rss Feed Reader, or subscribe to their website for updates etc..
Wings Over Scotland
25 June 2021
The world's most-read Scottish politics website-
The Weekend Cartoon
Alert readers will have noticed that our quasi-regular crayonsmith Slacky The Holiday Boy is off...
- Faith over experience
- The Tory Variant
- A tale of four nations
- The skewer
SCOT goes POP!
25 June 2021
A pro-independence blog by James Kelly - voted one of Scotland's top 10 political websites.-
Will identity politics zealotry on both sides scupper the SNP-Green deal?
First of all, thanks for all the kind words about
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Scot Goes Popcast with guest Maggie McNeill, speaking about her opposition to the Nordic Model on prostitution law
A few months back there was yet another Holyrood consultation about the idea of introducing the
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The echoes and ghosts of 2017
Although I always want the Tories to lose every election they fight, I had a sense of
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The SNP need to understand that independence supporters will not wait forever
A couple of recent comment pieces in The Nationalhave caught my eye. First of all,...
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Important message for email subscribers to Scot Goes Pop
I've been meaning to mention this for a while - the email subscription option that is
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Wee Ginger Dug
25 June 2021
Biting the hand of Project Fear
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Saving the Union with a cross between C Beebies and a Pyongyang parade
British nationalism has taken a distinctly toe-curlingly creepy and cringey turn, although it...
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Blinking first in the game of referendum chicken
They’re at it again, you can hear the sound of goalposts being shifted all the way from...
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When “good chaps” go bad
The Tories lost yet another court case this week, after a two year legal battle SNP MP Tommy...
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Putting 50p in the Broontervention meter
It’s reasonable now to make an educated guess about what really happened during Gordie...
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GB News victimhood seeking and the EU
Whenever you see that Neil Oliver is trending on social media it’s like getting a phone call...
Random Public Journal
25 June 2021
News, opinion and analysis on the things that matter to you.
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Nativism and Nationalism
National belonging is not in fact native to the human condition. Nationalism is a psycho-political...
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Culture Wars: Woke™
Its quixotic readiness to go on crusade against every perceived wrong, hampered at every turn by...
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What has Gilead to do with Bethel?
This theatre of the culture war is global, but in Scotland it poses a unique and particular...
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Do Unto Others
But there are other ways to communicate. As a Christian of the Catholic tradition, I have serious...
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Attention Seeker
‘Someone on the internet said something mean about me,’ joked Paul Kavanagh a couple of years ago...