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By Hole Ousia Posted on December 9, 2025December 9, 2025

CAR BARGAINS [SPEEDY]

I wonder if ‘SPEEDY’ came from STAR GARAGE? SPEEDY [honeythief]: To play this short film please click here.

Categories: Progress hardly broke its stride, This is Not yesterday, Time passesTags: advertisement, advertising, cars, climate change, Global warming, Lost, Peter Scott-Gordon, Peter's poems, Speedy, The Rebel antiquary
By Hole Ousia Posted on August 10, 2025August 10, 2025

A kind of poetic essay with songs

We are fortunate to have tickets to see Windblown by Karine Polwart at Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh for Monday 11th August. These are some extracts from yesterday’s Scotsman:

Categories: Folk worth talking about, gardens, Progress hardly broke its stride, Scotland, TreesTags: Botanic gardens, climate change, concert, Edinburgh, Karine Polwart, loss, mortality, poetry, singing, trees
By Hole Ousia Posted on November 15, 2023November 19, 2024

“Officials suggested against”

This is not right.  What has become of the Civil Service Code?

Categories: Philosophy, ScotlandTags: climate change, honesty, Scottish Government
By Hole Ousia Posted on October 3, 2023November 19, 2024

White ivory had been replaced

Joseph Conrad, ‘Heart of Darkness‘

Categories: Progress hardly broke its strideTags: climate change, Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
By Hole Ousia Posted on March 24, 2023November 20, 2024

‘Leaving on a jet plane’

Earlier this month, several individuals representing NHS Scotland, took a jet plane to Qatar: This was to attend this Conference in Doha: This conference was hosted by Hamad Medical Corporation … Continue reading ‘Leaving on a jet plane’

Categories: NHS Scotland, ScotlandTags: climate change, Jason Leitch, Jet-setting, Scottish Government
By Hole Ousia Posted on November 2, 2022November 22, 2024

“BP profits more than double”

Our Chancellor, 18 October 2022: ‘We must take decisions of eye-watering difficulty’.

Categories: Progress hardly broke its strideTags: climate change, commercialisation, profits
By Hole Ousia Posted on August 18, 2021November 25, 2024

PROGRESS hardly broke its stride

A short protest film. Made 18 August 2021. PROGRESS hardly broke its stride: To play this short film please click here or on the image above

Categories: Medical humanities, Omphalos films, Progress hardly broke its strideTags: climate change, commercialisation, courage to care, Lecture in progress, marketing, Omphalos films, Peter Scott-Gordon, Pharmaceutical industry, Rebel antiquary, sapere aude
By Hole Ousia Posted on April 14, 2021November 26, 2024

‘The latest estimate’

For a film that I am currently making I have been reading through old copies of the Kirkintilloch Gazette and came across this, most confident reassurance, published in March 1903: … Continue reading ‘The latest estimate’

Categories: Progress hardly broke its stride, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: carbon footprint, climate change, fossil fuels

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