tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post804213517969630917..comments2024-03-28T07:16:39.621+00:00Comments on Lallands Peat Worrier: A party of government of women, by women, for womenLallands Peat Worrierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18276270498204697708noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-72022916631778668972014-12-04T14:39:34.027+00:002014-12-04T14:39:34.027+00:00A grim consensus: yes I suppose. Given my own libe...A grim consensus: yes I suppose. Given my own liberal instincts, I've felt the sting of that often enough. And on gender, from experience, this remains a contested issue with many of our younger folk. Encountering students a lot, you meet those with a keen sense of the contemporary resonance of feminism, and those who baulk at it -- along the lines of my Tory MP. An effect, I suppose, of the discipline of a relentless, individualising way of seeing the world. Lallands Peat Worrierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07238432265194046726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-15520041928217477102014-12-03T10:21:53.709+00:002014-12-03T10:21:53.709+00:00Andrew: 'Scotland will never - ever - achieve ...Andrew: 'Scotland will never - ever - achieve its independence unless more women can be persuaded that a better future awaits them in an independent country. That will be long, hard work. And work worth doing, independence or no.'<br /><br />Yes of course, worth doing which ever way the (w) indy blows!<br /><br />I was at the launch of the cartoon Yes/No exhibition afore the Referendum and one of the Women for Indpendence group there made that point - one might say (forgive the pun) the Jeanie won't be put back .<br /><br />Being cynical (just this once) your views on gender depends on where you start. Knox was all against Mary being Queen of Scotland so he wrote his blast proving that women could not govern men - unfortunately for him of course, Elizabeth became Queen of England and the real world blew all his theorising into the air,<br /><br />Some of the sniping I have seen on Lamont, Sturgeon and Davidson has in all three cases come perilously close to the 'who does this daft we lassie think she is' edge of play - and interchangeable. <br /><br />There is common ground in Scotland - alas not all of it is desirable.Edwin Moorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05317173893948248954noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-36951404754612397252014-12-02T18:15:00.343+00:002014-12-02T18:15:00.343+00:00Nobler times, when a sheriff clerk could nip off f...Nobler times, when a sheriff clerk could nip off for an afternoon drink in a Lockerbie hotel bar...Lallands Peat Worrierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07238432265194046726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-15457157700888308242014-12-02T17:04:05.943+00:002014-12-02T17:04:05.943+00:00It is certainly true that Margaret Kidd was addres...It is certainly true that Margaret Kidd was addressed on the bench as "My Lord". I first met her in summer 1965 when she, as Sheriff Principal of Dumfries and Galloway, was presiding over a vacation court in Dumfries. I had earlier in a Lockerbie hotel where I had a vacation job as porter/barman met the sheriff clerk of Dumfries (with a lady not his wife). On discovering that I was a law student, he invited me to meet Miss Kidd on her next visit to the court. She was utterly charming (but had a rather unconfident court manner). When I was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1972 my devilmaster instructed me on the etiquette of the Bar (I wonder if devilmasters still do?). Fellow advocates were to be addressed by Christian name or surname (no prefix) with the exception of Margaret Kidd who was to be addressed as "Miss Kidd". Advocates proceeded through doors in order of seniority in admission to the Faculty (irrespective of status as QC or Junior) with the exception of Margaret Kidd who must always go first through any door. Many years later I took part in the Edinburgh Law School decision to award Dame Margaret Kidd (as she then was) the honorary degree of LLD. I believe that she was the first woman to be so honoured.Robert Blackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03606456028430261555noreply@blogger.com