Derek Bateman interviews Alex Salmond

Publiée le 2015-03-26
Former First Minister Alex Salmond talks exclusively to Newsnet TV's Derek Bateman about the referendum, the rise of the SNP and where he thinks the unionist parties got it wrong. 
Recorded in Edinburgh, March 25 2015.

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Willem J. Ouweneel: Christian Philosophy and Politics

Photo: Pete Bell

Wisdom for Thinkers:

An Introduction to Christian Philosophy

Willem J. Ouweneel

Jordan Station, ON: Paideia Press

ISBN 978-0-88815-226-8

Pbk, 208pp, £7.50

Read review by Steve Bishop HERE

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Power in Service:

An Introduction to Christian Political Thought

Willem J. Ouweneel

Jordan Station, ON: Paideia Press, 2014

Isbn:978-0-88815-229-9

Pbk, 146pp, £5.75

Read review by Steve Bishop HERE

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Get GA Ponsonby's Book! LONDON CALLING - How the BBC stole the Referendum

'LONDON CALLING: How the BBC stole the Referendum'

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Political commentary:
'London Calling – How the BBC stole the Referendum', chronicles the descent of the BBC in Scotland from that of a trusted broadcaster bringing news into homes throughout Scotland, to an institutionally corrupt organisation so despised that thousands of ordinary Scots marched on its Scottish HQ in protest at its anti-independence bias.

The book takes the reader on a meandering tour beginning with the arrival of devolution and culminating in the No campaign's triumph in the independence referendum on September 18th 2014. The journey is signposted by significant political events all covered by the BBC. But lying beneath each news bulletin and broadcast was a pro-Union culture that was eating away at the broadcaster's integrity.

The book reveals how Donald Trump, Megrahi and Rupert Murdoch were used by the broadcaster in an attempt at promoting an anti-SNP narrative. It also reveals how headlines were altered, video footage edited, stories suppressed and debates loaded as the state broadcaster resisted the political change taking place throughout Scotland.

'London Calling - How the BBC stole the Referendum' will shock those who read it. But even more shocking is the realisation that the institutional corruption it exposes ... is still going on.

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More about the author: 

In 2010 G.A.Ponsonby created one of Scotland's most influential new media websites - Newsnet Scotland. The outlet, set up before the SNP's 2011 win which guaranteed a referendum on independence, was the first to directly challenge main stream media coverage of Scottish politics. Newsnet was also the first daily news outlet to officially back Scottish independence.

Ponsonby has written extensively on the BBC's coverage of Scottish politics for Newsnet and has helped expose many of the more questionable practices employed by the broadcaster.
In 2014, shortly after the independence referendum, he announced he was writing a book about the BBC and its role in the independence referendum. The book is based on almost seven years of experience monitoring the BBC in Scotland.

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Order book HERE

Hating modernity, hating the Jews: a reckoning with Heidegger

by Tim Black, Deputy editor, Spiked!

"But in an important way, the eternally recurring Heidegger controversy always misses the point. There is no doubt he was a Nazi. There is no doubt he was an unapologetic anti-Semite, right to the last. He was ‘a small man’, lamented George Steiner. But the point at issue, the point that we must grapple with, is the relationship between his anti-Semitism and the thought that has entranced so many. Because make no mistake, Heidegger is one of the most compelling and formidable thinkers of the twentieth century."

Read full article here

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1985 Debate Audio: Greg Bahnsen (Christian) v Gordon Stein (Atheist)

Download PDF transcript here

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Following alternate source has poor sound quality but good active transcript:

The Great Debate: Greg Bahnsen vs Gordon Stein

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The Bastardisation of the BBC

The Bastardisation of the BBC

by Grouse Beater (Dec 2, 2014)

Did Sarah Smith, well-meaning presenter of BBC Scotland’s  genteel political chatabout, ‘Scotland 2015,’ really trail her interview with retiring Gordon Brown as, ‘tonight, my interview with titanic Gordon Brown,’ when she meant titan?

If so, what Freudian slip of epic proportion. As it was, she gave him all the adulation he expected for selling out his country with the help of her employer, BBC.

‘Bastardisation’ is my creation but it conveys exactly a process over a number of years. In no special order:  the complete discarding of integrity, the diminution of funds, the contraction of output, the withdrawal of decision-making to London, the sacking of talented staff in place of competitive submissions from freelancers and independent production companies UK-wide, the elevation of the second-rate, and the betrayal of a nation it purported to serve.

The BBC’s own respected Newsnight journalist, Paul Mason, felt so moved he went public on the reason for his resignation, his disgust at the way the BBC has turned itself into a purveyor of half-truths and deceptions. It deserves a paragraph all to itself. He tweeted:

“Not since Iraq have I seen the BBC working at propaganda strength like this. So glad to be out of there.”

Sarah Smith’s ‘Titanic’ was an unintentionally amusing moment, the only one, in a pathetic litany of despicable propaganda organised by the BBC to derail the result of the Referendum. As a former executive employee I am ashamed to have thought that place the apogee of  a writer’s career. In fact, it is difficult to write about the BBC with any degree of impartiality  and still hold back rage and disgust. The BBC proved itself a stalwart of Westminster ideology,  a mouthpiece for the anti-democracy lobby.

Read full article here

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NewsShaft: 05/03/15

NewsShaft: 05/03/15
'Our special guest this week was described by The Times as "one of Scotland's leading digital consultants", he's the former head of digital at Yes Scotland, Stewart Kirkpatrick.  We're discussing all the hot topics this week in Scottish politics, as well as reaction to today's First Minister's Questions.'