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Vietnam war strategy as a basis for “Search And Destroy”; the The Ramones wrote about the Holocaust as if it were a ’60s dance song (“Blitzkrieg Bop”). Punk social media pages these days are filled with right-wing trolls claiming the music and culture was never about politics. Or with insistences that noted racist authoritarian Donald Trump is “the most punk president ever.” On pages devoted to bands such as the Clash or Dead Kennedys. As Strummer put it in “(White Man) In Ha...

Sun Sep 29 2002 at 17:59:51 The Highland clearances of the 1760s to 1880s are some of the most controversial and emotion-fraught events in Scotlands long history. Poverty-stricken tenants and their families were evicted from long-held land by landlords keen to make money by farming sheep on the land. Some of the most horrific clearances took place at Strathnaver in Sutherland in 1814, but they had begun some time before this, principally at Glengarry, near Knoydart and Fort William. Evicted fam...

Findochty engineer shares memories of globetrotting career By Alan Beresford Published: 19:00, 15 January 2021 Get the Northern Scot sent to your inbox every week and swipe through an exact replica of the days newspaper Finechty loon John Sinclair with a copy of his globetrotting memoirs. Picture: Daniel Forsyth Pensioner John Sinclair – more commonly know as Ian to his fellow Justers – now lives in Elgin but spent most of his working life, beginning in the early 1970s, abroad in ...

Dad who owned Peaky Blinders bar dies after call to wife saying hed be home soon John Sinclair owned the popular Peaky Blinders chain of bars and hotels Owner of Peaky Blinders bar chain John Sinclair from Birkdale died following complications after a liver transplant on December 27, 2020. John Sinclair with wife Melanie. (Image: Melanie Sinclair) Make sure to subscribe to our Liverpool Echo daily newsletter for the biggest stories, straight to youInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try a...

Looking Back – news from the John OGroat Journal of yesteryear By Staff Reporter Published: 09:46, 10 January 2021 Get the Courier and Groat sent to your inbox every week and swipe through an exact replica of the days newspaper Stricken crew rescued by Scarfskerry rocket company From the Groat of January 7, 1921 The SS Kentucky, of Copenhagen, had been carrying goods and mails on a voyage from Copenhagen to Boston, USA, when it ran ashore at Skirza Head, Freswick. At the time the sea...

New Wheels Around book features vintage buses across the Highlands By Val Sweeney Published: 07:44, 09 January 2021 Get the Courier and Groat sent to your inbox every week and swipe through an exact replica of the days newspaper A Bedford bus pictured at Whitebridge in 1966. VINTAGE buses photographed at locations around the Highlands feature in a new book by a retired consultant surgeon. John Sinclair, who is also regarded as a a leading authority on historic Scottish buses, has compiled W...

by Kathy Melvin | Presbyterian News Service The Rev. John Sinclair was a Presbyterian pastor for more than 70 years. (Contributed photo) LOUISVILLE — The Rev. John Henderson Sinclair, 96, a Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) pastor for more than 70 years and an ardent advocate for peace and social justice, died in Tampa, Florida, on Jan. 2. His father was a Scottish pastor from Wick, a town in the far north of Scotland, and his mother was from Glasgow. Both became missionaries to the United Stat...

January 7, 2021 Bill Caraher |  This year’s Public Domain Day was pretty exciting. It featured, among other things, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby which was published in 1925 and therefore entered the public domain on January 1. Hemingway’s  In Our Time, John Dos Passos’s Manhattan Transfer and Edith Wharton’s This annual injection of new material into the public domain impacts North Dakota Quarterly as well which produced four issues in 1925 that are now free from a...

Tobermory Distillery Recently Released A Historically Inspired Rioja Cask Finish Whisky Tobermory Distillery Recently Released A Historically Inspired Rioja Cask Finish Whisky Tobermory Distillery, one of the oldest distilleries in Scotland and the only whisky distillery on the Isle of Mull, is paying homage to its own storied history—and that of its island location—with the recent release of new entry into its Ledaig range: the Sinclair Series Rioja Cask Finish. The distiller’s first-eve...

How Long Did It Take for Michigan to Legalize Marijuana? NOTE: This article is not taking sides on the usage of marijuana...it is intended for information. I was remembering the other day about the time when a patch of marijuana was found growing in a field behind one of our local radio stations. This was in the late 1980s, and as soon as it was discovered it was immediately confiscated. We always wondered what happened to it... Even though there have been marijuana growers in our state for wel...