<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16212283</id><updated>2011-04-22T01:26:38.023+01:00</updated><category term='carbon dioxide'/><category term='Styrkeproven'/><category term='methane'/><category term='cycling'/><category term='Norway'/><category term='waste food'/><title type='text'>Inchbrakie</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Inchbrakie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15226014594409828254</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://i2.tinypic.com/ors1fc.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>69</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16212283.post-9185884107321581207</id><published>2007-03-18T20:56:00.000Z</published><updated>2007-03-18T21:06:31.406Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Norway'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cycling'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Styrkeproven'/><title type='text'>Utter Bloody Folly: Part I of a series</title><summary type='text'>I should be found here come midsummer weekend this year, all so that I can end up with a walk like a decrepit John Wayne courtesy of the Styrkeproven. More details to follow, if not even it's very own blog. I might even have found out what Styrkeproven means. I have one or two ideas of what it might end up meaning. Answers on a postcard please.</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/feeds/9185884107321581207/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16212283&amp;postID=9185884107321581207&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/9185884107321581207'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/9185884107321581207'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/2007/03/utter-bloody-folly-part-i-of-series.html' title='Utter Bloody Folly: Part I of a series'/><author><name>Inchbrakie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15226014594409828254</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://i2.tinypic.com/ors1fc.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16212283.post-1103287236424976329</id><published>2007-03-18T20:18:00.000Z</published><updated>2007-03-18T20:56:07.371Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='methane'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='carbon dioxide'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='waste food'/><title type='text'>Trivial ethical dilemmas</title><summary type='text'>Strange, an article about waste food  in the Guardian and no mention of the methane that it will produce when for the most part it inevitably ends up in a landfill site. The methane is a result of anaerobic decomposition and is apparently one of the main culprits when it comes to so-called greenhouse gases. The obvious answer for some waste food-stuffs at least would be that sacred cow of the </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/feeds/1103287236424976329/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16212283&amp;postID=1103287236424976329&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/1103287236424976329'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/1103287236424976329'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/2007/03/trivial-ethical-dilemmas.html' title='Trivial ethical dilemmas'/><author><name>Inchbrakie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15226014594409828254</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://i2.tinypic.com/ors1fc.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16212283.post-114237112073721757</id><published>2006-03-14T21:16:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-03-15T18:27:21.133Z</updated><title type='text'>Another gun post</title><summary type='text'>An interesting post over at Gun Culture. Not so sure about the book's title though.</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/feeds/114237112073721757/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16212283&amp;postID=114237112073721757&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/114237112073721757'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/114237112073721757'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/2006/03/another-gun-post.html' title='Another gun post'/><author><name>Inchbrakie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15226014594409828254</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://i2.tinypic.com/ors1fc.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16212283.post-114236946677037135</id><published>2006-03-14T20:07:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-06-09T23:21:56.556+01:00</updated><title type='text'>A misplaced sense of decency stifles debate</title><summary type='text'>Some of the assertions that are made in this article by Dr Mick North and carried on the BBC website are so clearly incorrect that I can only imagine that some sort of misplaced sense of "decency" prevents them being more assertively challenged by journalists (whose job it is to do this sort of thing):If guns were less easily available they would be less likely to be misused, and so everything </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/feeds/114236946677037135/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16212283&amp;postID=114236946677037135&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/114236946677037135'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/114236946677037135'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/2006/03/misplaced-sense-of-decency-stifles.html' title='A misplaced sense of decency stifles debate'/><author><name>Inchbrakie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15226014594409828254</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://i2.tinypic.com/ors1fc.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16212283.post-114236684849818691</id><published>2006-03-14T19:41:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-03-14T20:07:28.536Z</updated><title type='text'>Beckett lets the cat out of the bag.</title><summary type='text'>From Pendennis in Sunday's Observer.    'Many Labour opinion-formers, particularly those favoured by Gordon Brown, saw foxhunting as the first step. There are ongoing private discussions about how to stop the fishing and shooting,' says a lobby source. 'They're terrified, though, of losing four million fishermen's votes in one fell swoop, so are proceeding with great caution.'   &lt;!-- This site/</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/feeds/114236684849818691/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16212283&amp;postID=114236684849818691&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/114236684849818691'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/114236684849818691'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/2006/03/beckett-lets-cat-out-of-bag.html' title='Beckett lets the cat out of the bag.'/><author><name>Inchbrakie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15226014594409828254</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://i2.tinypic.com/ors1fc.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16212283.post-114193999680211261</id><published>2006-03-09T21:22:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-03-09T21:33:16.813Z</updated><title type='text'>Expensive  emptiness</title><summary type='text'>There was me thinking that this post at Freedom &amp; Whisky was  about the current state of the Scottish Parliament. Tsk, that shall teach me to be a cynic.</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/feeds/114193999680211261/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16212283&amp;postID=114193999680211261&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/114193999680211261'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/114193999680211261'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/2006/03/expensive-emptiness.html' title='Expensive  emptiness'/><author><name>Inchbrakie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15226014594409828254</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://i2.tinypic.com/ors1fc.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16212283.post-114193929452260650</id><published>2006-03-09T21:19:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-03-09T21:21:34.536Z</updated><title type='text'>Magic moments</title><summary type='text'>as I get a call from my brother to tell me that I am now a proud uncle to a charming little niece, born this afternoon!Words fail me (as they often do).</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/feeds/114193929452260650/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16212283&amp;postID=114193929452260650&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/114193929452260650'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/114193929452260650'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/2006/03/magic-moments.html' title='Magic moments'/><author><name>Inchbrakie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15226014594409828254</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://i2.tinypic.com/ors1fc.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16212283.post-114147449146875858</id><published>2006-03-04T11:57:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-03-04T12:14:51.486Z</updated><title type='text'>Curtains to cretins</title><summary type='text'>Tomorrow will be the 60th anniversary of Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech, made in Fulton, Missouri, USA. In stark contrast, last night saw Phoney Tone elaborate on the religious element of his executive powers and generally acting the part of the "I'm really just one of the lads, honest" yet again. Regaling tales of dope-smoking father-in-laws etc.  with Parky and Kevin Spacey, the </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/feeds/114147449146875858/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16212283&amp;postID=114147449146875858&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/114147449146875858'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/114147449146875858'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/2006/03/curtains-to-cretins.html' title='Curtains to cretins'/><author><name>Inchbrakie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15226014594409828254</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://i2.tinypic.com/ors1fc.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16212283.post-114142796254545639</id><published>2006-03-03T23:15:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-03-03T23:19:22.560Z</updated><title type='text'>V for Vendetta, N for Nepotism</title><summary type='text'>From Popbitch:How to blow up the Houses of Parliament   Two years ago, Richard Curtis was refused permission to film in 10 Downing Street for "The Girl In The Cafe". Government officials said they were sorry, but it was a government building, not a film set. Yet last June, "V For Vendetta", the Wachowskis' new film, which opens here this month, managed to get Whitehall shut down for four nights </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/feeds/114142796254545639/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16212283&amp;postID=114142796254545639&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/114142796254545639'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/114142796254545639'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/2006/03/v-for-vendetta-n-for-nepotism.html' title='V for Vendetta, N for Nepotism'/><author><name>Inchbrakie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15226014594409828254</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://i2.tinypic.com/ors1fc.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16212283.post-114133527441113852</id><published>2006-03-02T21:21:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-03-02T21:35:19.930Z</updated><title type='text'>Tax avoidance and evading comprehension</title><summary type='text'>A nice post at Martin Kelly's. Maybe someone should write to the BBC and differentiate between avoidance and evasion in terms of TV licences."If I sell or otherwise dispose of my TV then I avoid being liable for payment of a TV licence. If I do own a TV and fail to purchase a TV licence then this is evasion".Simple enough for a journalist to understand now?</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/feeds/114133527441113852/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16212283&amp;postID=114133527441113852&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/114133527441113852'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/114133527441113852'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/2006/03/tax-avoidance-and-evading.html' title='Tax avoidance and evading comprehension'/><author><name>Inchbrakie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15226014594409828254</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://i2.tinypic.com/ors1fc.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16212283.post-114132992788084887</id><published>2006-03-02T19:56:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-03-02T21:42:42.380Z</updated><title type='text'>Group tyranny</title><summary type='text'>Timoth Garton Ash, here."If someone says "the Nazis didn't kill so many Jews and had no plan for their systematic extermination", he is a distorter of history who deserves to be intellectually refuted and morally condemned, but not imprisoned. If, however, someone says "kill the Jews", or "kill the Muslims", or "kill the Americans", or "kill the animal experimenters", and points to particular </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/feeds/114132992788084887/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16212283&amp;postID=114132992788084887&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/114132992788084887'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/114132992788084887'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/2006/03/group-tyranny.html' title='Group tyranny'/><author><name>Inchbrakie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15226014594409828254</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://i2.tinypic.com/ors1fc.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16212283.post-114132927270248733</id><published>2006-03-02T19:42:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-03-02T19:54:32.713Z</updated><title type='text'>By Toutatis!!</title><summary type='text'>As any childhood fan of Asterix &amp; Obelix will recollect, the Celts had an ancient fear of the sky falling down upon their heads. Well, someone has obviously upset the gods down in Holyrood. From the pictures shown on the link, it is not immediately obvious that part of the roof structure has failed. Kind of sums up the Scottish Parliament and it's occupants quite aptly.</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/feeds/114132927270248733/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16212283&amp;postID=114132927270248733&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/114132927270248733'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/114132927270248733'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/2006/03/by-toutatis.html' title='By Toutatis!!'/><author><name>Inchbrakie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15226014594409828254</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://i2.tinypic.com/ors1fc.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16212283.post-114132841055891211</id><published>2006-03-02T19:25:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-03-02T19:40:10.570Z</updated><title type='text'>Linda Smith</title><summary type='text'>I shall miss Linda Smith's rather unique sense of humour which could be somewhat acerbic yet wonderfully understated. Two nuggets as selected by Simon Hoggart in his tribute to her in today's Guardian demonstrate these qualities to the full:"David Mellor, the thinking woman's fat, ugly bastard. The last woman to run her fingers through his hair was the nit nurse.""I do sympathise with Bush and </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/feeds/114132841055891211/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16212283&amp;postID=114132841055891211&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/114132841055891211'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/114132841055891211'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/2006/03/linda-smith.html' title='Linda Smith'/><author><name>Inchbrakie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15226014594409828254</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://i2.tinypic.com/ors1fc.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16212283.post-114106763007813551</id><published>2006-02-27T18:50:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-02-27T19:13:51.140Z</updated><title type='text'>Once more the glens echo as clans do battle</title><summary type='text'>Well, maybe only if the lawyers (the main beneficiaries of this sort of tussle) decide to discuss the matter with megaphones alfresco. Whatever the outcome, I fail to see what means the eventual owner will have to prevent further vandalism thanks to the blinkered determination of the Scottish Executive to push through the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003. While this might pay lip service to "</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/feeds/114106763007813551/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16212283&amp;postID=114106763007813551&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/114106763007813551'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/114106763007813551'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/2006/02/once-more-glens-echo-as-clans-do.html' title='Once more the glens echo as clans do battle'/><author><name>Inchbrakie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15226014594409828254</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://i2.tinypic.com/ors1fc.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16212283.post-114106594795448793</id><published>2006-02-27T18:42:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-02-27T18:45:47.970Z</updated><title type='text'>Eye watering? Surely not...</title><summary type='text'>Mouth watering seems much more apt for this.</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/feeds/114106594795448793/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16212283&amp;postID=114106594795448793&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/114106594795448793'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/114106594795448793'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/2006/02/eye-watering-surely-not.html' title='Eye watering? Surely not...'/><author><name>Inchbrakie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15226014594409828254</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://i2.tinypic.com/ors1fc.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16212283.post-114097558469752184</id><published>2006-02-26T17:21:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-02-26T18:24:38.123Z</updated><title type='text'>The ban-athon that is the Labour Party in power</title><summary type='text'>Another week in politics and another ban. Quelle surprise. Whether it be just Scotland or the UK as a whole, the idealogues and anti-{insert fashionable cause here} groups win the day once again. Looking through some of the groups who contributed to the Executive's consultation process in the Analysis of Responses, many of them seem to be quite irrelevant and detached from the matter under </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/feeds/114097558469752184/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16212283&amp;postID=114097558469752184&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/114097558469752184'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/114097558469752184'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/2006/02/ban-athon-that-is-labour-party-in.html' title='The ban-athon that is the Labour Party in power'/><author><name>Inchbrakie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15226014594409828254</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://i2.tinypic.com/ors1fc.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16212283.post-114090609219955694</id><published>2006-02-25T22:07:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-02-25T22:26:25.426Z</updated><title type='text'>Trumpet Blowing</title><summary type='text'>I wonder if this is the dim-witted chap I mentioned in a previous post©Private EyeLikewise,©Private EyeAnd finally, something not completely different via The Cabarfeidh Pages -</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/feeds/114090609219955694/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16212283&amp;postID=114090609219955694&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/114090609219955694'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/114090609219955694'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/2006/02/trumpet-blowing.html' title='Trumpet Blowing'/><author><name>Inchbrakie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15226014594409828254</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://i2.tinypic.com/ors1fc.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16212283.post-114088596396375337</id><published>2006-02-25T16:38:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-02-25T22:25:20.330Z</updated><title type='text'>Something else from Samizdata</title><summary type='text'>Here. Read the comments too if you have time. It must be an essential part of every actor's (in the genderless sense) genetic make-up that they cannot resist making a complete tit of themselves by displaying utter ignorance on a wide range of "right-on" topics. Especially one who is going to make a not insubstantial amount of money from a film series that "glamourises" guns and the people who use</summary><link rel='related' href='http://www.samizdata.net/blog/archives/008653.html' title='Something else from Samizdata'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/feeds/114088596396375337/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16212283&amp;postID=114088596396375337&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/114088596396375337'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/114088596396375337'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/2006/02/something-else-from-samizdata.html' title='Something else from Samizdata'/><author><name>Inchbrakie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15226014594409828254</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://i2.tinypic.com/ors1fc.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16212283.post-114088537478248771</id><published>2006-02-25T16:14:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-02-25T16:36:14.806Z</updated><title type='text'>Was Fate tempted?</title><summary type='text'>I read this article  by Andrew Sullivan earlier in the week via Samizdata and if anything seems eerily prescient with his remark "If 10,000 angry Muslims had marched in London after the bombing of a major mosque in Iraq, I'd be impressed."The Askariya shrine in Samarra was destroyed by a bomb on Wednesday yet today has not seen even 1,000 angry Muslims take to the  streets of London. Perhaps it's</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/feeds/114088537478248771/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16212283&amp;postID=114088537478248771&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/114088537478248771'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/114088537478248771'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/2006/02/was-fate-tempted.html' title='Was Fate tempted?'/><author><name>Inchbrakie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15226014594409828254</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://i2.tinypic.com/ors1fc.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16212283.post-114087815656870818</id><published>2006-02-25T14:07:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-02-25T16:13:41.886Z</updated><title type='text'>What makes you a legitimate target?</title><summary type='text'>In the eyes of the righteous, it would appear to be free speech.This article in today's Guardian features Laurie Pycroft, the founder of PRO-Test and one of the speakers at today's march in Cambridge proclaiming support for animal testing. He expects that putting his right to free speech to use will cause him problems:"The worry is I am going to be targeted for property damage or worse, but it's </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/feeds/114087815656870818/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16212283&amp;postID=114087815656870818&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/114087815656870818'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/114087815656870818'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/2006/02/what-makes-you-legitimate-target.html' title='What makes you a legitimate target?'/><author><name>Inchbrakie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15226014594409828254</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://i2.tinypic.com/ors1fc.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16212283.post-114087452914748838</id><published>2006-02-25T13:08:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-02-25T14:05:50.730Z</updated><title type='text'>St Vigeans Church &amp; Pictish Stones</title><summary type='text'>Here are the photos of the church at St Vigeans and of some of the collection of Pictish stones in the nearby museum as briefly mentioned in an earlier post.St Vigeans Church. Vigean is the Latinised form of Fechan. The name of the Dumfries-shire town of Ecclefechan (and also the birthplace of Thomas Carlyle) is probably an Anglicised form of it's older Gaelic name, meaning "the church of Fechan"</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/feeds/114087452914748838/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16212283&amp;postID=114087452914748838&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/114087452914748838'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/114087452914748838'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/2006/02/st-vigeans-church-pictish-stones.html' title='St Vigeans Church &amp; Pictish Stones'/><author><name>Inchbrakie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15226014594409828254</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://i2.tinypic.com/ors1fc.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16212283.post-114073047381775404</id><published>2006-02-23T20:48:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-02-23T21:34:33.846Z</updated><title type='text'>A quite pathetic claim to fame, by me.</title><summary type='text'>BBC 1, 7pm last night and "Frontline Scotland" (the programme can be watched again here) featured the use of "Closure Orders" whereby premises that have a history of anti-social behaviour can be boarded up, effectively evicting (albeit temporarily) the inhabitants. The programme featured the Marr family from my home town of Crieff. That particular family name has over the recent decades acquired </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/feeds/114073047381775404/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16212283&amp;postID=114073047381775404&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/114073047381775404'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/114073047381775404'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/2006/02/quite-pathetic-claim-to-fame-by-me.html' title='A quite pathetic claim to fame, by me.'/><author><name>Inchbrakie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15226014594409828254</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://i2.tinypic.com/ors1fc.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16212283.post-114047633978523105</id><published>2006-02-20T22:53:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-02-20T22:59:46.130Z</updated><title type='text'>Intermission</title><summary type='text'>I was going to post a few pictures of a church and some Pictish carvings I took last week but due to me now being a bit worn around the edges and generally in need of brandy and my Tom Sharpe book, I shall be postponing said pictures until a later date (i.e. as soon as I have worked out how to apply a sepia filter via GIMP).</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/feeds/114047633978523105/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16212283&amp;postID=114047633978523105&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/114047633978523105'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/114047633978523105'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/2006/02/intermission.html' title='Intermission'/><author><name>Inchbrakie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15226014594409828254</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://i2.tinypic.com/ors1fc.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16212283.post-114047301878053101</id><published>2006-02-20T19:38:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-02-20T23:05:59.283Z</updated><title type='text'>Oh no! It's the the bobblies...</title><summary type='text'>Damned if you do, damned if you don't. That was my first thought after a quick read through  this report in today's online edition of the Depressing JournalSomething, however, seemed a little out of place. The appearance of the initials RSPB always sets off the nervous tics of late. No wonder, given whatever it is that their press spokesman seems to be imbibing in order to produce gems such as </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/feeds/114047301878053101/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16212283&amp;postID=114047301878053101&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/114047301878053101'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/114047301878053101'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/2006/02/oh-no-its-the-bobblies.html' title='Oh no! It&apos;s the the bobblies...'/><author><name>Inchbrakie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15226014594409828254</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://i2.tinypic.com/ors1fc.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16212283.post-113926958169514388</id><published>2006-02-06T23:36:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-02-06T23:49:55.336Z</updated><title type='text'>A correction &amp; elucidation</title><summary type='text'>In an earlier post I referred to someone unknown who appeared to be a close relation of Terry F*ckwit, a borderline imbecilic who inhabits the pages of Viz. I can now identify and correctly quote this "cousin" of Terry thanks to a second reading of Saturday's Guardian and this nugget, the continuation of the leading article that was somewhat unfortunately tucked away near the bottom of the second</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/feeds/113926958169514388/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16212283&amp;postID=113926958169514388&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/113926958169514388'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/113926958169514388'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/2006/02/correction-elucidation.html' title='A correction &amp; elucidation'/><author><name>Inchbrakie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15226014594409828254</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://i2.tinypic.com/ors1fc.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16212283.post-113926736204171668</id><published>2006-02-06T23:05:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-02-06T23:13:27.913Z</updated><title type='text'>Oooh, synchronicity!</title><summary type='text'>Just a few moments ago in another post I mentioned "hing-oots". Well, see if you can spot one here.</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/feeds/113926736204171668/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16212283&amp;postID=113926736204171668&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/113926736204171668'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/113926736204171668'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/2006/02/oooh-synchronicity.html' title='Oooh, synchronicity!'/><author><name>Inchbrakie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15226014594409828254</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://i2.tinypic.com/ors1fc.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16212283.post-113926605853175089</id><published>2006-02-06T22:42:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-02-06T23:17:12.723Z</updated><title type='text'>Cartoon capers - never a dull moment</title><summary type='text'>Berenike has this to say on the matter over at ex Laodicea and follows on with this pithy observation.I'd like to dedicate this post to these characters who have helped prove the point I made in commenting on Berenike's first post.The controversy took an unusual turn with a Belgian-Dutch Islamic political organisation posting anti-Jew cartoons on its website on Saturday. The Arab European </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/feeds/113926605853175089/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16212283&amp;postID=113926605853175089&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/113926605853175089'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/113926605853175089'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/2006/02/cartoon-capers-never-dull-moment.html' title='Cartoon capers - never a dull moment'/><author><name>Inchbrakie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15226014594409828254</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://i2.tinypic.com/ors1fc.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16212283.post-113926574688743099</id><published>2006-02-06T21:25:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-02-06T23:46:55.076Z</updated><title type='text'>A victory for the demagogues of Islam</title><summary type='text'>oooh, I seem to have come over all Daily Mail editor-ish there. I do apologise.A potted history from what I have read so far -   The Jyllands-Posten published the cartoons in late September of last year. Yes, that's (counts fingers) over four months ago. The cartoons can be viewed here, as linked to via the Guardian.   As predictably as night follows day, protests follow pretty much immediately, </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/feeds/113926574688743099/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16212283&amp;postID=113926574688743099&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/113926574688743099'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/113926574688743099'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/2006/02/victory-for-demagogues-of-islam.html' title='A victory for the demagogues of Islam'/><author><name>Inchbrakie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15226014594409828254</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://i2.tinypic.com/ors1fc.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16212283.post-113874711497907418</id><published>2006-01-31T22:25:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-01-31T22:38:34.993Z</updated><title type='text'>New boy on the pavey</title><summary type='text'>Spotted this evening via Scottish Blogs - the Dundee Eye.For 'eye' read 'ehh'.</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/feeds/113874711497907418/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16212283&amp;postID=113874711497907418&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/113874711497907418'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/113874711497907418'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/2006/01/new-boy-on-pavey.html' title='New boy on the pavey'/><author><name>Inchbrakie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15226014594409828254</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://i2.tinypic.com/ors1fc.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16212283.post-113874415317008982</id><published>2006-01-31T21:39:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-01-31T21:49:13.170Z</updated><title type='text'>Curb your Exposure</title><summary type='text'>This entry by Holyrood Chronicles reminded me in a roundabout way of the scene in the first episode of "Curb Your Enthusiasm". The curmudgeonly Larry David confronts a cinema patron who accuses him of taking too keen an interest in her décolletage with the riposte:"yeah, you wore a dress like that so I would look at your shoes."Or something like that.</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/feeds/113874415317008982/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16212283&amp;postID=113874415317008982&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/113874415317008982'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/113874415317008982'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/2006/01/curb-your-exposure.html' title='Curb your Exposure'/><author><name>Inchbrakie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15226014594409828254</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://i2.tinypic.com/ors1fc.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16212283.post-113873659523807698</id><published>2006-01-31T19:17:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-01-31T21:31:07.960Z</updated><title type='text'>Road kill - additive free? Pseudo guilt free more like.</title><summary type='text'>Arthur Boyt evidently relishes the chance to partake of roadkill and I wish him good luck as he seeks greater challenges for his adventurous palate. I'm not so sure about some of the claims though - "additive free"? Well as long as you don't include gravel, tyre rubber, rock salt, traffic film and the traces left behind by any foregoing carrion then I suppose you could describe it as additive </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/feeds/113873659523807698/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16212283&amp;postID=113873659523807698&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/113873659523807698'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/113873659523807698'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/2006/01/road-kill-additive-free-pseudo-guilt.html' title='Road kill - additive free? Pseudo guilt free more like.'/><author><name>Inchbrakie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15226014594409828254</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://i2.tinypic.com/ors1fc.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16212283.post-113838683657879611</id><published>2006-01-27T18:27:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-01-27T18:33:56.580Z</updated><title type='text'>Rats - part 1,042 in an ongoing series</title><summary type='text'>I noted last week that via the letters page of the Dundee Courier, a disgruntled ratcatcher had accused the National Trust of Scotland of failing to allow homegrown rodent control companies the chance to bid for the Canna rat cull project. Monday's Courier had as it's lead letter the response from Abbie Paterson, the chap who cleared up my media-led confusion.</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/feeds/113838683657879611/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16212283&amp;postID=113838683657879611&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/113838683657879611'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/113838683657879611'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/2006/01/rats-part-1042-in-ongoing-series.html' title='Rats - part 1,042 in an ongoing series'/><author><name>Inchbrakie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15226014594409828254</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://i2.tinypic.com/ors1fc.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16212283.post-113838637234274962</id><published>2006-01-27T18:12:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-01-27T18:26:12.353Z</updated><title type='text'>Rhapsody in Dark Blue</title><summary type='text'>Those fine folk in the Senior Service, specifically HMS Campbeltown, have produced their very own mock tribute video to "Bohemian Rhapsody". Classic stuff and despite the flakey nature of my interweb connection (pause playing until the bar is over half way to enjoy it uninterupted).  I hope they took the opportunity to splice the mainbrace with pusser's rum after their sterling efforts out on the</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/feeds/113838637234274962/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16212283&amp;postID=113838637234274962&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/113838637234274962'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/113838637234274962'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/2006/01/rhapsody-in-dark-blue.html' title='Rhapsody in Dark Blue'/><author><name>Inchbrakie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15226014594409828254</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://i2.tinypic.com/ors1fc.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16212283.post-113762302358532216</id><published>2006-01-18T21:26:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-01-18T22:36:41.336Z</updated><title type='text'>Ca' canny wi' the Canna Rats</title><summary type='text'>Then again, maybe not, just trying to come up with a blog title that doesn't immediately make me want to put my fingers in the electric socket to see what happens.Things are progressing with the fairly ambitious project on Canna that has been the subject of a fair few of my posts from last year.Previous posts on the topic (main ones being here, here &amp; here, in that order) stated my puzzlement </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/feeds/113762302358532216/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16212283&amp;postID=113762302358532216&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/113762302358532216'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/113762302358532216'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/2006/01/ca-canny-wi-canna-rats.html' title='Ca&apos; canny wi&apos; the Canna Rats'/><author><name>Inchbrakie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15226014594409828254</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://i2.tinypic.com/ors1fc.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16212283.post-113594414707013654</id><published>2005-12-30T11:41:00.000Z</published><updated>2005-12-30T12:28:30.173Z</updated><title type='text'>A dram of Glen Serotonin please barman.</title><summary type='text'>Starting a new job in early December has lead to a somewhat marked drop-off in my contributions to the blog. The increased hours may play some part but the greater portion of the blame (if it can be called such) is the glacial connection speed of the internet at my new place of work. This obviously makes it quite tiresome to read the online newspapers, other blogs before even considering logging </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/feeds/113594414707013654/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16212283&amp;postID=113594414707013654&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/113594414707013654'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/113594414707013654'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/2005/12/dram-of-glen-serotonin-please-barman.html' title='A dram of Glen Serotonin please barman.'/><author><name>Inchbrakie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15226014594409828254</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://i2.tinypic.com/ors1fc.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16212283.post-113344110622618530</id><published>2005-12-01T12:22:00.000Z</published><updated>2005-12-01T12:45:06.240Z</updated><title type='text'>Bypass the woolly halfwits</title><summary type='text'>Today's announcement that the preferred route for the Aberdeen bypass (or to give it it's full title, the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route - cue sing-song chorus of "ooohhh, Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route" a la "Chewin' the Fat") doesn't seem to have gone down well with the Party that the Electorate forgot. The usual crass, glib &amp; unthinking response from their spokesperson shows just how </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/feeds/113344110622618530/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16212283&amp;postID=113344110622618530&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/113344110622618530'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/113344110622618530'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/2005/12/bypass-woolly-halfwits.html' title='Bypass the woolly halfwits'/><author><name>Inchbrakie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15226014594409828254</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://i2.tinypic.com/ors1fc.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16212283.post-113240200006317836</id><published>2005-11-19T11:48:00.000Z</published><updated>2005-11-20T09:09:30.813Z</updated><title type='text'>Police overstretch?</title><summary type='text'>With the terrible news of the fatal shooting of a PC and the wounding of another, early reports indicate that both of them were probationers. Without wishing to speculate on the bearing that this could have had on the sequence of events, I am surprised to hear that two probationers were out on patrol together. Surely a probationer would always accompany a more experienced officer as has been my </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/feeds/113240200006317836/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16212283&amp;postID=113240200006317836&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/113240200006317836'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/113240200006317836'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/2005/11/police-overstretch.html' title='Police overstretch?'/><author><name>Inchbrakie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15226014594409828254</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://i2.tinypic.com/ors1fc.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16212283.post-113239813299904602</id><published>2005-11-19T10:26:00.000Z</published><updated>2005-11-19T11:47:19.663Z</updated><title type='text'>Crap art</title><summary type='text'>Last week's Observer featured an interview with the waspish but erudite Brian Sewell in which he offered the observation that:"We pee on things, we pee into things, we pee over things... and call it art."As if picking up the gauntlet, today's Guardian reviews the latest "offering" from Chris Ofili, namely "... two monumental sculptures of a man and a woman baring their bottoms. Behind them are </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/feeds/113239813299904602/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16212283&amp;postID=113239813299904602&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/113239813299904602'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/113239813299904602'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/2005/11/crap-art.html' title='Crap art'/><author><name>Inchbrakie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15226014594409828254</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://i2.tinypic.com/ors1fc.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16212283.post-113018988849286709</id><published>2005-10-24T22:24:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2005-10-24T22:38:08.503+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Massie vs. Mullan</title><summary type='text'>A restrained but none the less comprehensive rebuttal from Allan Massie of the mawkish piece by Peter Mullan that got my goat a few days back. As spotted by the g-Gnome who seems as restrained as Allan Massie in his description of Mr Mullan as a "patronising nitwit". To lapse into the vernacular of Mr Mullan, I would venture that he is a touch more gobshite than nitwit but there you go. Blame it </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/feeds/113018988849286709/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16212283&amp;postID=113018988849286709&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/113018988849286709'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/113018988849286709'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/2005/10/massie-vs-mullan.html' title='Massie vs. Mullan'/><author><name>Inchbrakie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15226014594409828254</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://i2.tinypic.com/ors1fc.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16212283.post-112920472125429914</id><published>2005-10-24T22:24:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2005-10-24T23:07:33.833+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Never mind the neo-cons, what about the neo-puritans?</title><summary type='text'>I've been indulging in a spot of debate via the letters page of the Scotsman over the past week or so. Maybe I'm just being paranoid but I saw more than some vague concern for animal welfare and tree regeneration behind the letter which kicked the whole thing off.My initial response was printed a few days later, albeit in an edited form.What really irked was the claim in the initial letter </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/feeds/112920472125429914/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16212283&amp;postID=112920472125429914&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/112920472125429914'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/112920472125429914'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/2005/10/never-mind-neo-cons-what-about-neo.html' title='Never mind the neo-cons, what about the neo-puritans?'/><author><name>Inchbrakie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15226014594409828254</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://i2.tinypic.com/ors1fc.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16212283.post-113018579811560574</id><published>2005-10-24T21:50:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2005-10-24T21:50:26.000+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Fundamentalist Atheism</title><summary type='text'>Giles Fraser is critical of the high self-regard which some humanists have of themselves and their "creed". He does not appear to have been the first to have done so by any means as he himself acknowledges when he quotes Friedrich Nietzsche, who was not known for holding Christianity in high regard, as saying"How much boundlessly stupid naivety is there in the scholar's belief in his superiority,</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/feeds/113018579811560574/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16212283&amp;postID=113018579811560574&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/113018579811560574'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/113018579811560574'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/2005/10/fundamentalist-atheism.html' title='Fundamentalist Atheism'/><author><name>Inchbrakie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15226014594409828254</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://i2.tinypic.com/ors1fc.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16212283.post-112974975085345748</id><published>2005-10-19T20:05:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2005-10-19T20:22:30.860+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Journalistic bias?</title><summary type='text'>It seems that both the BBC and the Guardian deem a Irish journalist kidnapped  in Iraq more newsworthy than the death of a British soldier in the same country(2nd &amp; 6th,2nd &amp; 11th respectively at the time of posting). What does that tell you about journalists sense of collective self-obsession? I can appreciate that the Guardian will have a special interest as the employer of the unfortunate </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/feeds/112974975085345748/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16212283&amp;postID=112974975085345748&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/112974975085345748'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/112974975085345748'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/2005/10/journalistic-bias.html' title='Journalistic bias?'/><author><name>Inchbrakie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15226014594409828254</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://i2.tinypic.com/ors1fc.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16212283.post-112974869297796038</id><published>2005-10-19T19:03:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2005-10-20T07:39:40.370+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Terrorists don't ride bikes - not in Dundee at least</title><summary type='text'>A rather odd heading perhaps. I've been aware for some time of the conflict in Dundee between the Port Authority (actually owned &amp; operated as part of the Forth Port Authority) and pedestrians &amp; cyclists wanting to cross the land that lies under the Port's control.To cut a long story short (and going by what I can recall from an interminable series of articles in the Dundee Courier), in the post </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/feeds/112974869297796038/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16212283&amp;postID=112974869297796038&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/112974869297796038'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/112974869297796038'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/2005/10/terrorists-dont-ride-bikes-not-in.html' title='Terrorists don&apos;t ride bikes - not in Dundee at least'/><author><name>Inchbrakie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15226014594409828254</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://i2.tinypic.com/ors1fc.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16212283.post-112974437372806308</id><published>2005-10-19T18:20:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2005-10-19T19:03:26.223+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Kirk Elder - Give us (y)our daily blog</title><summary type='text'>See Kirk Elder for pithy Presbyterian wit so dry that it makes a mouthful of sloes taste like a juicy strawberry in comparison. I used to thoroughly enjoy Kirk Elder's erstwhile column in the Scotsman (it helped make up for even glancing at Rab McNeill's latest piece of sneering in print political sketch) so his re-appearance in the guise of a blog is a real treat.The fedora is raised a good few </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/feeds/112974437372806308/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16212283&amp;postID=112974437372806308&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/112974437372806308'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/112974437372806308'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/2005/10/kirk-elder-give-us-your-daily-blog.html' title='Kirk Elder - Give us (y)our daily blog'/><author><name>Inchbrakie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15226014594409828254</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://i2.tinypic.com/ors1fc.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16212283.post-112970395237837474</id><published>2005-10-19T07:18:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2005-10-19T08:22:47.453+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Hoots, jings &amp; help ma' boab - it's Harry Lauder!</title><summary type='text'>It was perhaps tempting fate a little to have blogged an entry on the trials &amp; tribulations of actors &amp; celebrities who "care" the other week.Just because authors such as Iain M. Banks ("Feersum Enjin") &amp; Irvine Welsh ("Train Spotting") wrote in the vernacular (and some years ago) no doubt Peter Mullan believes that by attempting his piece in today's Herald in a likewise fashion that it will </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/feeds/112970395237837474/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16212283&amp;postID=112970395237837474&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/112970395237837474'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/112970395237837474'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/2005/10/hoots-jings-help-ma-boab-its-harry.html' title='Hoots, jings &amp; help ma&apos; boab - it&apos;s Harry Lauder!'/><author><name>Inchbrakie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15226014594409828254</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://i2.tinypic.com/ors1fc.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16212283.post-112961733558584284</id><published>2005-10-18T07:05:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2005-10-18T07:55:54.410+01:00</updated><title type='text'>National registers - bad, national gun owner registers - good!</title><summary type='text'>What can be made of this? Any national register of gun owners will have a negligible effect in reducing crimes involving the use of a firearms in this country. Almost without exception, firearms used in crimes are unlicensed and therefore extremely unlikely to feature on any such database, a fact that I suspect Dr North knows full well. Given the limited practical use of any such database, I find</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/feeds/112961733558584284/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16212283&amp;postID=112961733558584284&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/112961733558584284'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/112961733558584284'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/2005/10/national-registers-bad-national-gun.html' title='National registers - bad, national gun owner registers - good!'/><author><name>Inchbrakie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15226014594409828254</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://i2.tinypic.com/ors1fc.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16212283.post-112889364751552462</id><published>2005-10-09T21:40:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2005-10-09T22:35:35.013+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Politicians vs Actors: a Greek Tragedy for the modern era?</title><summary type='text'>Being in something of a reasonable mood on Saturday, I nonetheless (or perhaps as a direct consequence) found myself buying the Guardian. Marina Hyde had a rather amusing column about luvvie-darling types who care awfully much about the little people."...the most disturbing image in the Hurricane Katrina coverage, a photograph that managed to communicate just how desperate were the straits in </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/feeds/112889364751552462/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16212283&amp;postID=112889364751552462&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/112889364751552462'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/112889364751552462'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/2005/10/politicians-vs-actors-greek-tragedy.html' title='Politicians vs Actors: a Greek Tragedy for the modern era?'/><author><name>Inchbrakie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15226014594409828254</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://i2.tinypic.com/ors1fc.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16212283.post-112852199892489094</id><published>2005-10-05T15:05:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2005-10-08T14:41:42.086+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Vote for seats scandals</title><summary type='text'>An interesting exchange of views on this train journey. Manners vs chivalry? Manners could be said to be genderless in today's society, provided that you are lucky enough to find someone displaying manners in the first place. The bad manners in the article were displayed by those who rather ungraciously chided the author for not giving up his seat then subsequently harangued him. Misdirected </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/feeds/112852199892489094/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16212283&amp;postID=112852199892489094&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/112852199892489094'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/112852199892489094'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/2005/10/vote-for-seats-scandals.html' title='Vote for seats scandals'/><author><name>Inchbrakie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15226014594409828254</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://i2.tinypic.com/ors1fc.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16212283.post-112851188910462950</id><published>2005-10-05T12:31:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2005-10-05T12:31:29.110+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Sex &amp; the State</title><summary type='text'>This opens a whole can of worms.If the prostitute selected by Mr Hansen refuses to provide a service for him, will it leave her open to prosecution for discriminating against someone with a disability? Perhaps there is a fetishism that might lend itself to finding willing female partners for Mr Hansen?If Mr Hansen is succesful in his claim then it will only a take small step (in defining what </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/feeds/112851188910462950/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16212283&amp;postID=112851188910462950&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/112851188910462950'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/112851188910462950'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/2005/10/sex-state.html' title='Sex &amp; the State'/><author><name>Inchbrakie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15226014594409828254</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://i2.tinypic.com/ors1fc.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16212283.post-112849593629160426</id><published>2005-10-05T08:14:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2005-10-05T08:13:22.633+01:00</updated><title type='text'>A challenge</title><summary type='text'>Further to the token outbreak of student radicalism at the Adam Smith College in Kirkcaldy, the reasoning of the students has been disputed. Today's letter page of The Scotsman features a fairly robust defence of Adam Smith and gives the chance for Paul Muirhead, the student activist apparently at the forefront of the name change, to back up his rhetoric with a spot of analysis. Regardless of the</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/feeds/112849593629160426/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16212283&amp;postID=112849593629160426&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/112849593629160426'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/112849593629160426'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/2005/10/challenge.html' title='A challenge'/><author><name>Inchbrakie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15226014594409828254</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://i2.tinypic.com/ors1fc.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16212283.post-112834216785204435</id><published>2005-10-03T18:50:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2005-10-03T18:39:46.210+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Buzzword Bingo in the Guardian</title><summary type='text'>This article from Saturday's Guardian falls prey to the ongoing drive to have the terms "animal welfare" and "animal rights" become one and the same by means of constant repetition, something I briefly touched upon in one of yesterday's entries.It also highlights some less than objective reporting from the Grauniad but then again perhaps I shouldn't be too surprised at that. The use of phrases </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/feeds/112834216785204435/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16212283&amp;postID=112834216785204435&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/112834216785204435'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/112834216785204435'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/2005/10/buzzword-bingo-in-guardian.html' title='Buzzword Bingo in the Guardian'/><author><name>Inchbrakie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15226014594409828254</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://i2.tinypic.com/ors1fc.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16212283.post-112833093923037475</id><published>2005-10-03T09:21:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2005-10-03T10:24:16.876+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Right on kids!</title><summary type='text'>According to this article in today's Courier, Adam Smith's name is unfit to grace the student association of his home town's college because"He is associated with socio-economic policies that work against the people, that were synonymous with Thatcherite and Reaganite governments"and"Adam Smith’s name is linked to exploitation and greed.”Dearie me, more burblings from someone who has clearly just</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/feeds/112833093923037475/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16212283&amp;postID=112833093923037475&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/112833093923037475'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/112833093923037475'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/2005/10/right-on-kids.html' title='Right on kids!'/><author><name>Inchbrakie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15226014594409828254</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://i2.tinypic.com/ors1fc.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16212283.post-112825692564174276</id><published>2005-10-02T13:30:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2005-10-03T20:27:12.666+01:00</updated><title type='text'>While we are on the subject....</title><summary type='text'>..of animal rights, a recent post on samizdata proves interesting reading. I have no problem at all with the notion of animal welfare in so far as people have a duty of care to animals that they come into contact with. To put it glibly, animal rights is the invention of people who watched Watership Down and used this as a basis for a philosophy. The two concepts are quite separate and not </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/feeds/112825692564174276/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16212283&amp;postID=112825692564174276&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/112825692564174276'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/112825692564174276'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/2005/10/while-we-are-on-subject.html' title='While we are on the subject....'/><author><name>Inchbrakie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15226014594409828254</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://i2.tinypic.com/ors1fc.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16212283.post-112825403479653756</id><published>2005-10-02T12:34:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2005-10-03T12:11:39.716+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Blogs of interest</title><summary type='text'>I've added links to a few blogs that I've been taking a look through this morning. samizdata isA blog for people with a critically rational individualist perspective.I would hope to fit the above description and given it's wide coverage, it is always worth a look.The Scottish Political Blogs Review looked very promising but on closer inspection seems to be moribund, it's last entry dating back to</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/feeds/112825403479653756/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16212283&amp;postID=112825403479653756&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/112825403479653756'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/112825403479653756'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/2005/10/blogs-of-interest.html' title='Blogs of interest'/><author><name>Inchbrakie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15226014594409828254</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://i2.tinypic.com/ors1fc.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16212283.post-112825271426205312</id><published>2005-10-02T12:17:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2005-10-02T12:31:54.273+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Liars for Animals??</title><summary type='text'>It's a while since I've seen such an apparently blatant misinterpretation as this, even from the animal rights industry.From even only a cursory reading of the original article, I fail to see how Ross Minnett of Advocates for Animals could get it so wrong.  I wrote this letter to highlight his factual error and also dragged in the matter of the Canna rat extermination, on which nothing has yet </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/feeds/112825271426205312/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16212283&amp;postID=112825271426205312&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/112825271426205312'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/112825271426205312'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/2005/10/liars-for-animals.html' title='Liars for Animals??'/><author><name>Inchbrakie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15226014594409828254</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://i2.tinypic.com/ors1fc.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16212283.post-112825155493891650</id><published>2005-10-02T11:05:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2005-10-02T12:12:34.943+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Canna rats update</title><summary type='text'>No more news on the Canna rat project to report. E-mails requesting clarification due to the conflicting news reports were sent off to SNH &amp; the NTS last week and prompt replies received from each. The SNH was a rather po-faced &amp; terse reply to the effect that it had nothing to do with them. A rather interesting reply given their remit but especially their involvement in the actual project. The </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/feeds/112825155493891650/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16212283&amp;postID=112825155493891650&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/112825155493891650'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/112825155493891650'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/2005/10/canna-rats-update.html' title='Canna rats update'/><author><name>Inchbrakie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15226014594409828254</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://i2.tinypic.com/ors1fc.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16212283.post-112755768381715637</id><published>2005-09-24T10:53:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2005-10-02T10:53:35.303+01:00</updated><title type='text'>The Canna Saga</title><summary type='text'>Having previously posted on the forthcoming project to get rid of the rat population on Canna, certain reported facts struck me as being a little on the large side. Leaving aside the six figure budget for a moment, the amount of poison to be used in relation to the estimated rat population was exceedingly generous. I thought it worthwhile to see what other online news sources had to say in case </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/feeds/112755768381715637/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16212283&amp;postID=112755768381715637&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/112755768381715637'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/112755768381715637'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/2005/09/canna-saga.html' title='The Canna Saga'/><author><name>Inchbrakie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15226014594409828254</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://i2.tinypic.com/ors1fc.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16212283.post-112731403212991195</id><published>2005-09-21T15:46:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2005-09-24T10:53:19.263+01:00</updated><title type='text'>The Canna Rats - continued</title><summary type='text'>I just found this on another blog via Technorati and was posted some 37 days ago (keep up at the back there Inchbrakie!). Interesting to note that the earlier reported cost was a mere £250,000. I wonder what happened in the intervening time to double this? Maybe the scientists involved thought that 1.25 tonnes of poisoned bait per rat wasn't quite enough.....</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/feeds/112731403212991195/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16212283&amp;postID=112731403212991195&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/112731403212991195'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/112731403212991195'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/2005/09/canna-rats-continued.html' title='The Canna Rats - continued'/><author><name>Inchbrakie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15226014594409828254</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://i2.tinypic.com/ors1fc.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16212283.post-112730468214530012</id><published>2005-09-21T12:48:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2005-09-21T13:11:22.150+01:00</updated><title type='text'>The trees win again, this time in South Africa</title><summary type='text'>First it was Glen Feshie. Then it was the Mar Lodge Estate. Now it seems that 10,000 South African mammals are having to play second fiddle to some grass based flora that has ideas apparently much above it's station.In the case of the South African elephants it is worth noting that annual culls used to take place up until 1994 when a public outcry led to their being halted "to see what would </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/feeds/112730468214530012/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16212283&amp;postID=112730468214530012&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/112730468214530012'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/112730468214530012'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/2005/09/trees-win-again-this-time-in-south.html' title='The trees win again, this time in South Africa'/><author><name>Inchbrakie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15226014594409828254</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://i2.tinypic.com/ors1fc.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16212283.post-112730329791004170</id><published>2005-09-21T12:23:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2005-09-23T12:35:48.873+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Super-rats on Canna.</title><summary type='text'>The National Trust for Scotland has announced plans to cull the rat population on Canna which is endangering the local seabird population, especially the Manx Shearwater. This seems a laudible plan of action for a body entrusted with the care of much of Scotland's natural &amp; cultural heritage. However, the price tag of £500,000 to deal with an estimated population of 10,000 rats would indicate </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/feeds/112730329791004170/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16212283&amp;postID=112730329791004170&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/112730329791004170'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/112730329791004170'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/2005/09/super-rats-on-canna.html' title='Super-rats on Canna.'/><author><name>Inchbrakie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15226014594409828254</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://i2.tinypic.com/ors1fc.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16212283.post-112730177589806534</id><published>2005-09-21T12:06:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2005-09-21T12:22:55.903+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Global warming, Martian style</title><summary type='text'>We earthlings are not alone in undergoing climatic change according to NASA scientists as reported in a BBC article. The polar caps of frozen carbon dioxide have shrunk for the third summer in a row. Whether or not there is a link between evidence of climatic change on Earth &amp; Mars, it goes some way in demonstrating that it is not necessary to have mankind (or martian-kind) as the prime cause (</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/feeds/112730177589806534/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16212283&amp;postID=112730177589806534&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/112730177589806534'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/112730177589806534'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/2005/09/global-warming-martian-style.html' title='Global warming, Martian style'/><author><name>Inchbrakie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15226014594409828254</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://i2.tinypic.com/ors1fc.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16212283.post-112713108392226207</id><published>2005-09-19T12:37:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2005-09-19T12:58:03.926+01:00</updated><title type='text'>If the deep fried Mars Bars don't get you, the natives will.</title><summary type='text'>The recent report from the United Nations that states Scotland is the most violent country in the developed world will not be going away in a hurry. However the story and ensuing debate appears to have made not even the slightest impact on the Guardian while The Herald too appears to have little to say on the matter. The BBC have somehow managed to hide the Scottish Executive's response away in a</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/feeds/112713108392226207/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16212283&amp;postID=112713108392226207&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/112713108392226207'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/112713108392226207'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/2005/09/if-deep-fried-mars-bars-dont-get-you.html' title='If the deep fried Mars Bars don&apos;t get you, the natives will.'/><author><name>Inchbrakie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15226014594409828254</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://i2.tinypic.com/ors1fc.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16212283.post-112712939087591661</id><published>2005-09-19T12:09:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2005-09-19T12:29:50.880+01:00</updated><title type='text'>"Flagrant behaviour", and from a (Prime) Minister!</title><summary type='text'>According to Lance Price, a former Deputy Communications Adviser (i.e. "spin doctor") to the Prime Minister,  Tony Blair uses the odd Anglo-Saxon vernacular from time to time. However mixed as it was with an supposedly ethnic grouping (in this case the Welsh), does this not create  a rather more sensitive situation for the Prime Minister? Now, it was only a few days ago that a football fan was </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/feeds/112712939087591661/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16212283&amp;postID=112712939087591661&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/112712939087591661'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/112712939087591661'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/2005/09/flagrant-behaviour-and-from-prime.html' title='&quot;Flagrant behaviour&quot;, and from a (Prime) Minister!'/><author><name>Inchbrakie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15226014594409828254</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://i2.tinypic.com/ors1fc.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16212283.post-112659446076699923</id><published>2005-09-13T07:39:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2005-09-13T07:54:20.773+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Citizen Kane to become Prisoner Kane?</title><summary type='text'>Rosie Kane of the Scottish Socialist Party is upset because she hasn't been sent to jail.Other reports quote the ever delightful Miss Kane as having said that while not in a hurry to go to prison, she had been keen to see the matter resolved as quickly as possible.In that case why not just pay the fine in the first place? Or does she need a brief stint in the jail to validate her self-proclaimed </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/feeds/112659446076699923/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16212283&amp;postID=112659446076699923&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/112659446076699923'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/112659446076699923'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/2005/09/citizen-kane-to-become-prisoner-kane.html' title='Citizen Kane to become Prisoner Kane?'/><author><name>Inchbrakie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15226014594409828254</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://i2.tinypic.com/ors1fc.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16212283.post-112645326873355034</id><published>2005-09-11T16:12:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2005-09-11T16:41:08.736+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Bosom buddies</title><summary type='text'>The National Trust for Scotland is to receive a £3 million grant from SNH according to an article in Friday's Scotsman:John Markland, chairman of SNH, said: "I'm delighted to offer this grant to the NTS, which has demonstrated a very high standard of countryside management for some of Scotland's most valuable landscapes, habitats and species."Presumably this includes the sort of habitat &amp; species</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/feeds/112645326873355034/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16212283&amp;postID=112645326873355034&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/112645326873355034'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/112645326873355034'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/2005/09/bosom-buddies.html' title='Bosom buddies'/><author><name>Inchbrakie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15226014594409828254</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://i2.tinypic.com/ors1fc.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16212283.post-112603968328718217</id><published>2005-09-06T21:41:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2005-09-06T21:48:03.286+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Still catching up.</title><summary type='text'>Another in the series of articles that have caught my attention and have so far been noted on odd bits of paper, this comes from the robust pen of David Aaronovitch in his column for the Grauniad back in February of this year.</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/feeds/112603968328718217/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16212283&amp;postID=112603968328718217&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/112603968328718217'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/112603968328718217'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/2005/09/still-catching-up.html' title='Still catching up.'/><author><name>Inchbrakie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15226014594409828254</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://i2.tinypic.com/ors1fc.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16212283.post-112603823263586718</id><published>2005-09-06T21:03:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2005-09-06T21:40:38.203+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Harking back</title><summary type='text'>I'm not a farmer but having grown up in rural Perthshire I have seen the agricultural make-up of the area go through some striking transformations in quite a short time. This letter although printed a while back (31st March 2004) in the sterling Dundee Courier is a real gem and is no less informative on a subject that seems to be wildly misunderstood, sometimes deliberately so. Dealing as it does</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/feeds/112603823263586718/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16212283&amp;postID=112603823263586718&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/112603823263586718'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/112603823263586718'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/2005/09/harking-back.html' title='Harking back'/><author><name>Inchbrakie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15226014594409828254</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://i2.tinypic.com/ors1fc.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16212283.post-112603691912492413</id><published>2005-09-06T20:46:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2005-09-06T22:03:58.013+01:00</updated><title type='text'>The Tyranny of the Blank Page</title><summary type='text'>After  mulling about what to put on this blog and in what structure ( for fear of appearing in some way disorganised) I have decided to administer to it in an entirely ad hoc manner.As a brief introduction I ought to credit Freedom &amp; Whisky with not only getting me thinking about blogging (albeit a good while ago) but also promoting two things that I value greatly and are all too often taken for </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/feeds/112603691912492413/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16212283&amp;postID=112603691912492413&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/112603691912492413'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/112603691912492413'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/2005/09/tyranny-of-blank-page.html' title='The Tyranny of the Blank Page'/><author><name>Inchbrakie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15226014594409828254</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://i2.tinypic.com/ors1fc.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16212283.post-112568056585478425</id><published>2005-09-02T17:59:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2005-09-02T18:02:45.856+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Errr, hello? Anyone out there?</title><summary type='text'>This is the first post in what shall no doubt turn out to be a somewhat occasional blog. Expect posts to appear in intermittent flurries followed by days of nothing that stretch into weeks of inactivity.I have every expectation that this blog may well fall on it's arse at some point but hey ho.</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/feeds/112568056585478425/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16212283&amp;postID=112568056585478425&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/112568056585478425'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16212283/posts/default/112568056585478425'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inchbrakie.blogspot.com/2005/09/errr-hello-anyone-out-there.html' title='Errr, hello? 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