ALBA - Unofficial Forum

I'm not going to the event at the Science Centre tonight, but don't leap to conclusions - it's not because a certain Somerset gender politics blogger will apparently be making a rare-bordering-on-unique foray into northern climes.  It's simply because I'm counting the pennies at the moment and the ticket price was a wee bit on the steep side.  However, for obvious symbolic reasons I do feel it's important that the anniversary events for the referendum held a generation ago are seen to be well-supported, so I spent a couple of hours at the Hope Over Fear event in George Square this afternoon.  I was too late to hear the former First Minister, but I did hear Tommy Sheridan speak twice.  He may be a controversial figure, but bloomin' 'eck, nobody can deny he's still a powerful orator, and I agreed with 90% of what he said.

Two other thoughts: whatever my mixed feelings about the Salvo project, I must compliment them on having a superb logo that looks amazing on flags.  And I never thought I'd watch a singer on stage performing a song that contained the genuine lyric "the SNP and Alba both think they're right", but that's something that actually happened today.

After the event was over, I suddenly got this strange notion that I'd like to look up the HMV on Argyle Street where I used to spend half my life when I was a student.  I assumed it would be long gone, but I was delighted to find it's still there and in fact it's barely even changed.