Corrupt FIFA fines against Remembrance Poppies teams a despicable money grab

FIFA for “the good of the game”?  Good only for a corrupt institution.  Best stick to local Premier League you can trust. On Remembrance Day 2016, out of respect for our war dead, football teams across the British Isles displayed Remembrance Poppies at the World Cup qualifier. “Poppies are a

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Scotland’s three generations of Highland Clearances (1784-1854)

The Highland Clearances were a callous and criminal chapter in Scottish history.  They were the immoral means of selfish Scottish chiefs and lairds who as early capitalists preferred the Great Cheviot Sheep (“finely shaped, with countenance mild and pleasant”) to their own clansmen who had once been their warrior rent-roll.

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