Middle Class – Random Public Journal

July 31, 2019 - WednesdayAugust 1, 2019 - Thursday Jeggit Politics, Scotland, Society

Sectarianism is a Thing Again

Granted, most of us pay this garbage little attention, and for good reason – but let me put it to you that this might be something of a mistake. In the replies to some of these bigoted comments independentistas have pointed out that religion is all but dead in Scotland. Insofar as we read these sentiments as an appeal to religious loyalties, they are meaningless. Protestantism and Catholicism have become redundant terms to a majority secular Scotland. This is where we are getting it wrong; these appeals are not to faith traditions or religious loyalties.

Normal Rules Don’t Apply to Them

Call it prejudice or a chip on my shoulder – I call it common sense, but here’s my take: The admission that these people [used to?] use coke is a window into a bigger picture of their reality. What is for millions of people around the world the root cause of their suffering is to these privileged upper class shites a mere recreation, a good buzz that accompanies all the other privileges their wealth and social position affords them. Not even hiding it from their peers, they organise exclusive get-togethers in the most luxurious hotels where they can hire in all sorts of fleshly delights.

August 7, 2017 - MondayAugust 8, 2017 - Tuesday Jeggit Politics, Scotland, Society

All Aboard! There’s a Bandwagon in Town

How simplistic can his analysis be? We could have told him all this years ago. Torrance’s reduction of the intersections within the independence movement to just two camps is derisible. We are talking about a national movement of hundreds of thousands of people – hundreds of the thousands of very different people – all working together towards a common objective.

July 28, 2017 - FridayJuly 30, 2017 - Sunday Jeggit Alternative Media, Independent Media, Politics, Scotland, Society

Common Space – What Hast Thou Done?

If Common Space wants to go gunning for Wings – especially on the back of such a flimsy and obviously politically motivated accusation – then its producers have to know they are instigating a serious and probably catastrophic split in the entire movement.

June 19, 2017 - MondayJune 19, 2017 - Monday Jeggit Politics, Scotland, Society, United Kingdom

What Lessons Should Scotland Learn?

This is precisely how this British establishment system views Scotland, the north of England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. We are only loved by it for what we are worth. Those parts and those elements of our populations that are of no value to this system are treated with violence contempt.

June 15, 2017 - ThursdayJune 17, 2017 - Saturday Jeggit Bereavement, Politics, Society, United Kingdom

Grenfell Tower: “Missing” means Dead

As the well-to-do homeowners of plummy and posh south Kensington wring their hands as the death toll mounts on their backyard, it was their demand for a more pleasing vista – and not the Grenfell residents’ plea for better, safer accommodation – that led to the multi-million pound RBKC council “regeneration” of Grenfell tower.

April 21, 2017 - FridayApril 24, 2017 - Monday Jeggit Politics, Scotland, Society

Class in the Scottish Independence Equation

Scottish nationalism is not a Braveheart-style war of independence, but a struggle for a more equitable nation by the only means now possible – separation from a rightist, neoliberal Westminster regime in London.

December 3, 2016 - SaturdayDecember 8, 2016 - Thursday Jeggit Ireland, Politics, Socialism, Society

Antonio Gramsci and the Culchie Mindset

In Ireland we know these rustic power-brokering as “Gombeenary” – the shady wheeler-dealing of parish pump big shots, concerned almost entirely with the task of lining their own pockets and keeping their friends and neighbours at least one peg below them.