Colin West @caileansiar

Poet, philosopher, politician. Piss-artist. caileansiar.net London Joined June 2009

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Colin West @caileansiar

18 hours ago

@Marcas_Mac 'S e èist-bhèist a th'ann!

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@RichardDawkins But, but, but… The other faculties have allowed the charlatans to embed themselves, rather than face the inevitable ad hominem attacks which are their modus operandi. Can that not properly be descibed as a want of courage?

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Colin West @caileansiar

4 days ago

@WingsScotland *because “country” without “independent”* (typo)

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Colin West @caileansiar

4 days ago

@WingsScotland Of course they wouldn’t have allowed it, precisely because without “country” without “independent” is ambiguous. You just conceded my point.

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Colin West @caileansiar

4 days ago

@WingsScotland What - failed to think through consequences your own argument asserts as impossible? A strange mode of reasoning, right enough.

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4 days ago

@WingsScotland But what it did not say is “Should Scotland be a country” and it is obvious why it did not say that.

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Colin West @caileansiar

4 days ago

@WingsScotland But language is usage. By way of example of usage in this context, the wording of the 2014 referendum question itself necessarily assumed that it was possible to be a country without being independent.

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Colin West @caileansiar

3 weeks ago

@KemiBadenoch A lovely tribute. (Lots of minnows out in the comments. Ho-hum.)

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Colin West @caileansiar

4 weeks ago

@bindelj @DailyMail Don't we need to go further than identifying the phenemenon and reject its root cause, the ideology of intersectionalism (or radical progressivism, or "wokery"), according to which both groups are on the same side of an oppressor/oppressed binary.

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Colin West @caileansiar

4 weeks ago

@Docstockk @unherd Excellent piece. (Some of the Arday quotes had me LOLing at their unintentional hilarity.) Thesis ties in nicely with David Butterfield's explanation for giving up his Cambridge professorship (as explained on Triggernometry).

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Colin West @caileansiar

4 weeks ago

Just finished “John of John” by Douglas Stuart. Particularly enjoyed the important lines of dialogue which appeared in the #Gaelic, without accompanying translations. Take that, monoglots!

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Colin West @caileansiar

a month ago

@msjlindsay Little Miss Existential Despair at the Cosmic Unfairness of Having To Live Through An Era of Unrivalled Stupidity and Whooping. By Roger Hargreaves.

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Colin West @caileansiar

a month ago

@msjlindsay Something similar happened when I was at the inaugural meeting of the Sex & Gender Law Association, where a number of the speakers used 'conservative' as a synonym for 'antediluvian sexist', which is rather jarring for any conservatives in the audience!

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Colin West @caileansiar

2 months ago

@ScotTories @DLumsden_MP Fantastic! And he managed to do it without crossing his fingers behind his back. You do us proud, sir!

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Colin West @caileansiar

2 months ago

@GadSaad Arrived today. Will report back in due course

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Colin West @caileansiar

2 months ago

Just finished @francisjfoster’s book. I laughed; I occasionally winced. Mainly I felt relief at not having followed my mother into the pedagogical profession. A gold star to FF!