Sheridan – New Shock!

Tommy – A Soap Opera Revisited

I wrote here on Christmas Eve last year, about the end of the Sheridan trial and its various up shots. One passage read: The story goes that Tommy’s original QC Maggie Scott strongly advised him not to call former NoTW editor and current press man to David Cameron, Andy Coulson as a witness. His insistence [...]

Sheridan to Stand

My jaw nearly hit the floor this morning when I read that Tommy Sheridan is to stand for the Scottish parliament in May after a ruling from the European Court of Human Rights. Until now anyone in prison has been barred from standing but yesterday’s ruling, which says that Sheridan’s human rights have been breached [...]

‘Tam Tam thy’ll get thy faring, In Hell they’ll roast ye Like a Herring’

My legal eagle friends think that the three year sentence handed down to Tommy Sheridan was an impossible one to appeal against. One friend put it thus: ‘There would be a definite risk of it being increased, perhaps substantially, in the appeal court. It does not have the appearance of being vindictive, and yet it [...]

The Trials of Tommy

On the day Tommy Sheridan is due to be sentenced having been found guilty of perjury, BBC Scotland are broadcasting a half hour drama about the case at 3:30 this afternoon:

Gail Warning

So the (big) brothers have fallen out over a woman. George Galloway and Tommy Sheridan I’m talking about here and the decision by Gail Sheridan to stand for the Scottish Parliament under the Solidarity banner. Wee George is a bit miffed because he had been talking to Tommy about swinging……a few votes his way, via [...]

Hacks and Hacking

I see from this article that the police are to reopen the case into phone hacking at the News of the World following the suspension of the NotW assistant editor Ian Edmondson. There are some high profile cases coming up against the News of the World by Steve Coogan, Sienna Miller and George Galloway who [...]

Sheridan sues News of the World!

And the Metropolitan Police! No editorial from me. Ma heid’s pure spinnin’ From The Guardian The former Scottish socialist leader Tommy Sheridan is taking legal action against News International and Scotland Yard after his personal details emerged as part of the News of the World phone-hacking scandal. The disgraced former MSP has instructed his lawyers [...]

The Man Who Won’t Take Advice

The unedifying process of Tommy Sheridan’s crash and burn continues. He has been all over the social networking media declaring that he is going to appeal. This apparently will get right up the nose of the judge (Lord Bracadale) dealing with the case as no appeal can begin until sentencing has taken place. I know [...]

What’s Left?

After the trial of the decade there will be a realignment of politics in Scotland. Here we attempt to list some of the minor parties who will be vying for obscurity in the coming months and years. The Peoples’ Front of Cardonald (Formerly the United Peoples’ Front of Cardonald) The Cardonald Peoples’ Front (Formerly G. [...]