I don't necessarily agree with everything Mary-Ellen Synon writes about the EU and its shenanigans and so it should be. People have different opinions. Hers are based on knowledge of facts, people and events, which she often interprets differently from the way I do. So be it.
It is, however, with some sadness that I record (as the Boss did earlier today) that she has just posted her last blog on the Daily Mail site, which is now infested by ra-ra Heffer clones. It is a goodie, though. She suggests that the Scots have a look at Ireland's experience as a small state member of the EU before they vote for "independence within the European Union", an oxymoron if ever there was one.
Ms Synon tells us that she will be concentrating more on journalism but does not specify the outlet(s). Let us hope that her well known attitudes to the project will not prevent her from acquiring those outlets.
I'd never read her blog before (although I've seen plenty of her work in print), and now I wish I had. Imagine... a journalist on a national newspaper responding to her own comment threads. Whatever next?
ReplyDeleteAnd she's dead right. I don't know if it's been noticed “Down South”, but Salmond's been oddly quiet about his “triangle of prosperity” (Ireland, Spain, and “independent” Scotland, I think; I wasn't really paying much attention) lately. Can't think why.
Now it's all about us really being kinda-sorta Scandinavians actually, if you squint at the map a bit. So it's back to the 1970s, with the return of the Nats' old flame, the Swedish model. Which isn't even working out for Sweden these days.
I'd never read her blog before (although I've seen plenty of her work in print), and now I wish I had. Imagine... a journalist on a national newspaper responding to her own comment threads. Whatever next?
ReplyDeleteAnd she's dead right. I don't know if it's been noticed “Down South”, but Salmond's been oddly quiet about his “triangle of prosperity” (Ireland, Spain, and “independent” Scotland, I think; I wasn't really paying much attention) lately. Can't think why.
Now it's all about us really being kinda-sorta Scandinavians actually, if you squint at the map a bit. So it's back to the 1970s, with the return of the Nats' old flame, the Swedish model. Which isn't even working out for Sweden these days.
I'd never read her blog before (although I've seen plenty of her work in print), and now I wish I had. Imagine... a journalist on a national newspaper responding to her own comment threads. Whatever next?
ReplyDeleteAnd she's dead right. I don't know if it's been noticed “Down South”, but Salmond's been oddly quiet about his “triangle of prosperity” (Ireland, Spain, and “independent” Scotland, I think; I wasn't really paying much attention) lately. Can't think why.
Now it's all about us really being kinda-sorta Scandinavians actually, if you squint at the map a bit. So it's back to the 1970s, with the return of the Nats' old flame, the Swedish model. Which isn't even working out for Sweden these days.
I'd never read her blog before (although I've seen plenty of her work in print), and now I wish I had. Imagine... a journalist on a national newspaper responding to her own comment threads. Whatever next?
ReplyDeleteAnd she's dead right. I don't know if it's been noticed “Down South”, but Salmond's been oddly quiet about his “triangle of prosperity” (Ireland, Spain, and “independent” Scotland, I think; I wasn't really paying much attention) lately. Can't think why.
Now it's all about us really being kinda-sorta Scandinavians actually, if you squint at the map a bit. So it's back to the 1970s, with the return of the Nats' old flame, the Swedish model. Which isn't even working out for Sweden these days.
I'd never read her blog before (although I've seen plenty of her work in print), and now I wish I had. Imagine... a journalist on a national newspaper responding to her own comment threads. Whatever next?
ReplyDeleteAnd she's dead right. I don't know if it's been noticed “Down South”, but Salmond's been oddly quiet about his “triangle of prosperity” (Ireland, Spain, and “independent” Scotland, I think; I wasn't really paying much attention) lately. Can't think why.
Now it's all about us really being kinda-sorta Scandinavians actually, if you squint at the map a bit. So it's back to the 1970s, with the return of the Nats' old flame, the Swedish model. Which isn't even working out for Sweden these days.
I'd never read her blog before (although I've seen plenty of her work in print), and now I wish I had. Imagine... a journalist on a national newspaper responding to her own comment threads. Whatever next?
ReplyDeleteAnd she's dead right. I don't know if it's been noticed “Down South”, but Salmond's been oddly quiet about his “triangle of prosperity” (Ireland, Spain, and “independent” Scotland, I think; I wasn't really paying much attention) lately. Can't think why.
Now it's all about us really being kinda-sorta Scandinavians actually, if you squint at the map a bit. So it's back to the 1970s, with the return of the Nats' old flame, the Swedish model. Which isn't even working out for Sweden these days.