END OF THE LINE II


You didnt really think i would carry on without me old sparring partner did ya!

That and the poisonous atmosphere
which is developing on the Blogosphere
as it did on the Scotsman's Forums.

Today me beloved Guardian ran a story
on Montague Burton even they have started
to stick the knife in.Calling him 'libellous '
and then printing all the libels (nice one that)


For me the Laughter has gone
it was just a joke but its not funny anymore!

I look forward to meeting you all at
the end of that Rainbow .....


The Scottish blogger







in a straight swap, Hyslop has been given the junior post of minister for culture and external affairs – taking her out of Salmond's cabinet – and her job has been handed to Mike Russell

Russell has been at the centre of a bitter row over the behaviour of SNP activists using blogs to viciously attack opponents, after his parliamentary office manager was forced to resign and leave the SNP at the weekend for publishing libellous blogs about senior Labour and Tory figures and leading academics.

While running Russell's office in Dumfries, Mark MacLachlan wrote blogs under the pseudonym Montague Burton calling one senior Tory QC a "liar", alleging one unnamed but married Labour MSP used gay prostitutes, and describing one senior English academic, a Labour cabinet minister and several journalists as "cunts".

Russell is adamant he was unaware of MacLachlan's remarks, but the affair is the culmination in a series of opposition complaints about the behaviour of so-called "cyber-nats" using blogs.

Labour attempted to ratchet up the pressure on Russell today by confirming that one Labour councillor in Dumfriesshire attacked by MacLachlan, Ronnie Nicholson, had made three complaints against Russell to the standards commissioner for failing to control his state-funded employee.

Ten days that shook Alex Salmond's world

Sunday, 22 November: A sign of things to come when pro-Nationalist blogger Bruce Newlands is investigated by his employer, Robert Gordon University, for his online comments.