As referred to in my post on my less political blog, here, I’m going to try to put the political part of my brain to blog-work once a week.
I will try very hard not to talk about expenses or the credit crunch as they are bloody boring. I may stick to internal politics and the BNP (nice and salacious) and my more recent interest in combating institutionalised anti-semitism (from my longtime-ex-Christian atheist perspective, if that matters) but, yeah, we’ll see how that goes. Anyway I am trying to make a once-a-week commitment, and Thursdays seem as good a day as any (no plagiarism intended, Mr Thursday Briefing).
In the mean time (well, until September anyway), I will be writing my Masters’ dissertation on Civic and Ethnic Nationalism in the National Library of Scotland (with no free WiFi to distract me).
Also, since I think it’s good to put up posts with pictures, here’s one to start:
From the National Museum of Scotland‘s room on emigration from Scotland:
