Showing posts with label Scotland. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Scotland. Show all posts
Friday, December 13, 2019

UK election 2019: Is the scene set for a return to Scottish independence?

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Thursday's UK election brought a huge majority to the Tories amid Labour's cataclysmic defeat, which makes Brexit a prospective f...
Sunday, July 28, 2019

BEER WITH A SOCIALIST: Searching for the perfect pub, among other links to educational beer fare.

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"In the end, that’s what all of us long for in a pub: somewhere to go in which we can have a relaxing drink in a convivial atmosphere ...
Wednesday, August 23, 2017

THE BEER BEAT: Hew Ainslie, an early New Albany brewer and Scottish-American poet.

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Hew Ainslie was New Albany's first commercial brewer. This biographical sketch below was written by Louisville goldsmith, writer and h...
Wednesday, December 16, 2015

Luke Kelly's last performance, 1983.

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In December, 1983, the gravely ill Luke Kelly appeared for the last time with the Dubliners, in a performance shown on Irish television. ...
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Sunday, June 07, 2015

The life and death of Charles Kennedy.

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Kennedy in 1987 (photo credit to the Washington Post ) In 1988, I was fortunate to land my first and only "real" corporate jo...
Monday, September 08, 2014

"To most Scots, living under a Tory-led government seems absurd, like being forced to live under a hostile foreign occupying force."

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I know the feeling. After all, the governor of Indiana is an unreconstructed Falangist named Mike Pence. Whatever Scotland decides, the ol...
Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Scotland: Should it stay or should it go?

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It's a fascinating topic, this potential Scottish statehood, but unfortunately the gist for me is a feeling of being ever more isolated ...
Saturday, December 08, 2012

Early New Albany brewer and Scottish-American poet Hew Ainslie ... by Conrad Selle.

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Hew Ainslie,  New Albany's first commercial brewer, is the inspiration for NABC's Scotch de Ainslie, currently on tap at both locati...