Broken Wings
I know you know There have been very serious incidents in the past of assistants ripping off winning customers, telling them it’s a loss and keeping the ticket. This sounds like a genuine mistake but if you get the person to check your ticket ALWAYS get the “losing” ticket back and ALWAYS get the little chit that it prints out and pay attention it’s the correct one. If someone in a shop tore up my lottery ticket without asking me first they’d be getting spoken to, they are in no position to do so, it’s not their ticket and they have absolutely no right to damage it. It’s not like it’s an onerous task for you to dispose of it.
Common Sensei I can never quite get my head round giving such a monstrous amount of money to one family, rather than giving £1 million to 57 families, and making a lot more people happier. It’s not as if they can spend it all in their remaining lifetime.
The Hiker Alex Salmond has written to the BBC’S directorgeneral after two proindependence Youtube accounts were suspended last weekend. The public broadcaster complained about 13 videos uploaded to indy website Wings Over Scotland, with the channel subsequently closed. In a letter to BBC chief Tony Hall, the former First Minister has demanded the corporation prove it “is not pursuing a campaign against sites which support Scottish independence”.
Looks like a fight has been started to divert newspaper column inches away from Blackford. It was You Tube’s decision, why let truth get in the way of a good fairy tale?
Another Voice
Typical of Brit Nats to rejoice and revel in the fact that this publicly funded broadcaster continues to subvert free speech because they disagree with the subject matter.
Only Me
A member of the public has written to the Director General of the BBC. Quite free to do so but it is hardly as if he holds any sway being neither an MP or an MSP.
I Know You Know
So Alex Salmond gets on his high horse again. He wants to satisfy the demands of the Scottish public. He is not, believe it or not, a spokesman for the Scottish public and never has been. He has to come to terms with that.
World Wide Football Fan
The BBC no longer controls the national conversation, although it still thinks it does. It only has had a monopoly of coverage of news because of the licence fee. Other news organisations have folded because of financial restraints only the BBC can afford. By hiding behind copyright laws, it seems the BBC is attempting to subdue free speech.
Laurence Boyd The channel is back up, though.
Franco Begbie