On this day in 1820 Sir Alexander Mackenzie died near Dunkeld in Perthshire.


Sir Alexander Mackenzie, was a Scottish explorer known for accomplishing the first east to west crossing of America north of Mexico in 1793, which preceded the Lewis and Clark Expedition by 12 years. The Mackenzie River is named after him. The site where he finished his crossing is now Sir Alexander Mackenzie Provincial Park and is designated a First Crossing of North America National Historic Site. In 2016, Mackenzie was named a National Historic Person.

It's the weekend again. A time when many of us have the spare time to make a contribution time-wise to the cause. Will you be a fighter or a slacker? Will you help as Kenny asked in his speech?
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Scotland is facing yet another crisis, this time in postal services. There has been a rash of closures over the last decade and recently SPAR announced that they would be closing 31 Post Office counters within their stores.

The closure of these counters disproportionately affects rural and poorer areas in Scotland. The SNP have done nothing so far to tackle this problem. The privatisation of the Post Office has led to this situation, where profit is put before service to the community.

Many of the most vulnerable in our society count on the Post Office for access to cash and other services. Without them, their already difficult lives will become more so.

The Post Office counter service should be seen as a community service and possibly run by the community, not just for profit. The SNP need to act to stop these closures or find a way forward to keep these Post Offices open in our communities.

On this day in 1941 the Clydebank blitz started. The blitz took place on the 13th and 14th of March.

As a result of the raids on the nights of 13 and 14 March 1941, the town was largely destroyed and it suffered the worst destruction and civilian loss of life in all of Scotland. 1,200 people died, 1,000 people were seriously injured, and hundreds more were injured by blast debris. Over the course of the two nights, a total of 439 Luftwaffe bombers dropped in excess of 1,650 incendiary containers and 272 tonnes of bombs.Out of approximately 12,000 houses, only eight remained undamaged — with 4,000 completely destroyed and 4,500 severely damaged. Over 35,000 people were made homeless.

Clydebank's production of ships and munitions for the Allies made it a target (similar to the Barrow Blitz). Major targets included the John Brown & Company shipyard, ROF Dalmuir and the Singer Corporation factory. A total of 439 bombers dropped over 1,000 bombs.

On this day in 1952 Television transmissions in Scotland when Britain's sole state broadcaster of the time, the BBC, started broadcasting from the transmitting station at Kirk o'Shotts using the 405-line television system. These early transmissions offered no significant separate content; all BBC programming came direct from London with only very occasional Scottish variation made using an outside broadcast unit. With time, BBC television in Scotland gradually accrued some limited rights to "opt out" of the UK network, particularly after the entry of the Independent Television networks into the picture, but it was well over 60 years before the corporation allowed an autonomous BBC television channel for the country when it finally launched a still relatively limited BBC Scotland TV service in February 2019.

Over 7500 Scottish children have no permanent homes. Over 2400 in Glasgow alone - a city which, it must be noted, has constantly offered to house increasingly large numbers of "refugees" over the years.

Local councils and the Holyrood administration talk all the time about children being Scotland's future but then constantly let them down, whether in housing, poverty reduction, education, health care or mental health services.

We need to put the children of Scotland first, before any other considerations, and make sure that they have permanent good quality homes. Without permanent homes their education and health will suffer. We cannot allow this situation to continue. If the current political parties in Scotland cannot (or will not) address this problem quickly and effectively then there is an alternative to secure the future of Scotland's children: a Patriotic Alternative that will put them first.

“You have all been convicted by the jury of the racially aggravated abduction and murder of Kriss Donald, a wholly innocent 15 year old boy of slight build.

He was selected as your victim only because he was white and walking in a certain part of the Pollokshields area of Glasgow when you sought out a victim.

This murder consisted of the premeditated, cold-blooded execution of your victim by stabbing him 13 times and setting him alight with petrol while he was still in life.

It truly was an abomination.

The savage and barbaric nature of this notorious crime has rightly shocked and appalled the public.

Your victim must have been in a state of extreme terror while held by you during a four hour car journey across Central Scotland and back, and the agony which he must have suffered during the period between being stabbed and set alight and his death is just beyond imagining.”

On this day in 2002 after decades of absentee ownership and population decline the Isle of Gigha passed into community ownership after a buyout.

The challenges created by private landlords came to an end in March 2002 when the islanders managed, with help from grants and loans from the National Lottery and Highlands and Islands Enterprise, to purchase the island for £4 million.

They now own it through a development trust called the Isle of Gigha Heritage Trust.As a result, 15 March, the day when the purchase went through, is celebrated as the island's "independence day". £1 million of the financial support was in the form of a short-term loan. The money to pay this loan back was largely raised by selling Achamore House.

An additional £200,000 was raised by the islanders through various fundraising ventures, allowing the loan to be paid back to the Scottish Land Fund on 15 March 2004. Since the community buy out several other private businesses have sprung up on Gigha providing a boost to the local economy.

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On this day in 1935 John James Rickard McLeod died in Aberdeen. McLean is one of several Nobel Proze winners that Scotland has produced. Yet again showing how for a small country Scotland consistently punches above its weight in creativity, science, medicine, business and innovation.

John James Rickard Macleod FRS FRSE was a British biochemist and physiologist. He devoted his career to diverse topics in physiology and biochemistry, but was chiefly interested in carbohydrate metabolism. He is noted for his role in the discovery and isolation of insulin during his tenure as a lecturer at the University of Toronto, for which he and Frederick Banting received the 1923 Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine.Awarding the prize to Macleod was controversial at the time, because according to Banting's version of events, Macleod's role in the discovery was negligible. It was not until decades after the events that an independent review acknowledged a far greater role than was attributed to him at first.

After yet another policy failure the SNP are looking at moving the goalposts to try and claim a success in the future. The SNP is all about smoke and mirrors, trying to fudge their failures to make them look as though they are a successful governing party. But their policies are one failure after another

The failure of their green jobs policy should worry the people of Scotland. This is the very policy they said would create a green 'gold rush' for Scotland and which would replace the 10,000s of jobs that will be lost in the coming years in the oil and gas industry because of the SNP/Green alliance's 'carbon neutral' policy - another policy that is sure to fail, bringing pain to sections of the Scottish public and businesses.

The SNP's policies (or lack of coherent, well planned policies) are failing the Scottish people in every area from child poverty reduction (another target they have just missed) to industrial strategy. The SNP and their Green partners are not competent to run our nation and need to go.

The SNP hate the true Scots. They don't even like the word National in their party's name. So it was no surprise that one of these traitorous politicians, didn't like our banner on the M8 at the weekend.

Poor old McLaughlin does not think White Lives Matter... She hates herself and her race. Sad but true.