BBC RADIO NAN GAIDHEAL

Utterly awful.  Should be renamed RADIO POP MUSIC and come with a Serious Health Warning. It is absurd that any public money should be wasted on this mind-numbing drivel from BBC Radio nan Gaidheal.

Like countless others, we wish to continue our Gaelic learning and education.  The only way to learn to an acceptable level is by keeping listening to Gaelic conversation and broadcasting.  

And most certainly not by listening to a Gaelic radio station spewing out Pop Music.  The two entities of Pop Music and Gaelic Culture are as far apart intellectually as it is possible to be.  They can never be reconciled.

Like most other listeners of Radio nan Gaidheal, we loathe Pop Music.  So why does BBC Scotland insist on shoving this rubbish into our ears day and night?  And why was the Gaelic Radio Channel established in the first place?  Was it,  perchance,  so that the BBC could  broadcast  Pop Music to the West Highlands?

It's not just the Pop Music thing that gets us worked up.  The standards in Gaelic Broadcasting have fallen badly in recent years even with supposedly professional journalists so that all too often what we get is a very mixed bag of Slang English and Slang Gaelic  instead of pure,  Broadcast Quality,  Gaelic.  Just why do so many broadcasters simply have to  introduce the English word 'so' into every Gaelic sentence?  It's infuriating.  The television channel BBC Alba is at least as bad if not even worse.  Embarrassing,  actually.  This should not be allowed on air.

We used to have Radio nan Gaidheal on every moment that we could  but,  nowadays,  it is with great trepidation that we press that ON button.  We simply do not know who,  or what,  is at the other end.

What on earth would the late founder of BBC Highland and Gaelic broadcasting legend,  the erudite and inimitable Uilleam Carrocher,  make of it?  

Uilleam is spinning in his grave.

RACHEL REEVES MP (3)

Astonishingly,  after that disastrous Budget of a few days ago,  Rachel From Accounts remains in post as Chancellor of the Exchequer.  Of course,  Rachel and Starmer are interlocked - if one goes,  the other is on a very shoogly nail.

But Rachel remains in big trouble still.  Rachel publicly based her Budget on a Big Black Hole of anything up to £30billion GBP in the nation's finances.  However, it has now been revealed that the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) told her months ago that there was no such Big Black Hole and yet up to,  during, and,  indeed,  after the Budget Rachel persisted that there was.  The Leader of the Opposition,  Mrs Badenoch,  has called Rachel a liar saying she has no option but to resign office.

The reason for this deceit on the public is simple.  The thick as mince horny-handed sons and daughters of toil lobby fodder on the Labour back benches are getting very restless as,  come the next General Election,  their chances of survival are virtually nil.  To placate them in the meantime in return for their continued support,  Rachel simply had to increase the Child Benefit bill by a huge amount - pay those MPs off in other words.

We have long maintained that Mrs Reeves is the most stupid woman in the world.  She is doomed - and Labour's latest version of Russian-style Socialism is doomed with her.

THE COVID INQUIRY

Well,  that's that over and at a cost of some £200million GBP.  That the various governments of the realm did 'too little,  too late' we already knew. With Boris Johnson in charge down south and Nicola Sturgeon in charge in Scotland it was inevitable that it was always going to be a dog's dinner anyway.

Should the Inquiry not have been about whether Lockdown was both necessay and appropriate in the first place?  

That's the one question everyone wants to know.

THE ROYAL FAMILY (1)

As a matter of recorded history,  monarchs and their offspring the world over have long been a very unsavoury lot.  The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is no exception.

As events unfold,  the late Queen Elizabeth II's perceived saintliness is suffering a mortal blow and quite rightly so.  We have never believed anything other than that she was highly typical of the breed and a cunning and conniving woman,  just like her mother Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon,  better known in later years as the Queen Mother.  That Queen Elizabeth chose to marry that awful man,  Prince Philip, and  the closeness of the Royal Family to the debauched Lord Mountbatten - mentor of the present king,  no less - tell us really all we want to know.

British newspaper proprietors and editors over the past 150 years are to blame for this dreadful state of affairs.  Instead of  investigating and publicising the outrageous conduct - including drug-taking aplenty - of the Royal Family over those years,  newspaper proprietors and their editors opted for the fawning sycophants' way in anticipation of  becoming associates of the royal tribe.  Utterly shameful.  Everything stage-managed to perfection alongside the newspapers as only the Windsors can do. 

No wonder we cannot trust or believe a word written in the Press to this day and no wonder that in this internet-enlightened age  newspaper sales have dwindled to a trickle.  Both the Royal Family and the Press are reaping what they have sown over a great many years.

THE LABOUR VULTURES

If our assessment  of the ghastly state of politics today is correct,  it appears that the only issue among the chattering classes for some time now has been who is to replace Keir Starmer as Prime Minister.  

Keir has never got over his huge  problem at the start of his premiership in accepting a colossal amount of free clothing  from Lord Alli.  He never will.  That was a bad move but there is nothing he can do about it now.  However, realising that Keir is  a hopeless Leader,  that he's not really interested in being Prime Minister and that they are all going to lose their seats,   the vultures are circling for blood.  Those vultures are  Angela Rayner,  Red Ed Miliband,  Wes Streeting and that chancer,  Andy Burnham,  mayor of somewhere in the North of England.

Lord help us with any of that lot as Prime Minister.  Caviar and champagne for them,  sackcloth and ashes for the rest of us.

RADIO SCOTLAND BREAKFAST

Most sadly,  the BBC flagship radio programme,  Good Morning Scotland,  is soon to be no more.  It is to be replaced by some dreadfully-named thing called Radio Scotland Breakfast. 

We had become well-used to presenters Gary Robertson and Laura Maxwell over many years and we liked in particular Robertson's roughing-up of Scotland's Nationalist politicians - who are stupid beyond belief one might add.  We have nothing whatever against the new presenting team of Martin Geissler and Laura Maciver,  both excellent journalists in their own right,  but why the change?

And what prize dumpling dreamt up the name Radio Scotland Breakfast?  It's enough to make you spew your porridge.

WES STREETING MP

Up till yesterday, we had completely forgotten that Mr Streeting existed.  We understand Mr Streeting to be Heath Secretary in this accursed Labour Government.  He's been in the public eye these past two days following claims he's been briefing against the Prime Minister,  Keir Starmer.

We've checked our notes from some 16 months ago when this Labour Government was formed and,  lo and behold,  Mr Streeting is mentioned therein.  We described him then as 'having a featherweight brain he's anxious to show off to anyone daft enough to listen'.

We have neither seen nor heard anything  since to make us change our mind.  Another complete nonentity - and a highly treacherous one to boot.