Quite. But saying that and then pulling the plug (or rather leaving out the plug one pulled a few months back) ... (View Post)

As @DecrepiterJohnL said. But I was more thinking of the potential hole that Mr Murray is digging. It's not quite Craigleith Quarry yet, but it's getting there. He's basically saying u… (View Post)

You could extend it to 1746 and the final defeat of the Stuarts and the absolutist royalists at Culloden, in fact. (View Post)

One of us on PB has been known to express his upset at the thought of RC influence in Scotland arising from the fact that the Church of Scotland is no longer Established. (View Post)

Cromwell was very much middle of the road, what with the demented Stuarts screaming about divine rigbht on the one hand, and the radical diggers and levellers and ranters on the other hand. (View Post)