This is our second CQN TV stint where Glasgow’s hottest model and TV presenter Nicole and social media masters’ student, Suzie, ask me about the season ahead Celtic and our Champions League chances. I also get a great question about the Generation of Domination, which I’ve not written much about here recently, but you’d better believe it’s coming.
It was great fun talking about Our Celtic, hope you enjoy it.
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On the RC PM debate – there is a Cabinet Office briefing paper that I used to have but cant now find. It explains how it could work – the only issue is that a PM advises the queen on appointments in the Church of England . An RC would not do that.
They don’t seem to have a problem with anyone else providing advice though, just an RC.
no, I’M Neil Lennon “i’ll never walk alone” (fourstonecoppi ) on 9 July, 2012 at 10:33
Spot on. The colours were running on last seasons home top for me after a couple of washes- I have tops from the 80’s and 90’s which are still in perfect condition.
HH
Zbyszek @ 10 04 .
I don’t care who the next Manager of Russia is — I merely report what the Italian media are stating ——-
Latest ” news “—–
There is no official confirmation that Mancini has signed.
Nothing will happen until 20/7 when the Russian FA will publish a shortlist re those who will be interviewed .
Italian media claim that Mancini / Capello / Spalletti and Prandelli are on the short list ..
I saw a TV interview with Capello last night —– he was asked about the Russian job —– he replied that he ” might be interested — I will wait and see “.
I have no means of knowing whether the Italian media are guffing — I simply report that they currently do not accept that Mancini has contracted to be the next Manager of Russia .
They could be wrong -they often are.
I’m sure Alex Salmond is a Tim.
Joe Filippis Haircut
I agree that the rules were being brushed aside but I’n not so sure now. Too many people in the game don’t want to see the rules abused (too much).
no, I’M Neil Lennon…
I totally agree with the comment about the quality of current Celtic items. I have a few T-shirts, casual tops from years ago that are still in great condititon were as the stuff I bought last season and the one before are only fit for when doing DIY or getting binned.
no, I’M Neil Lennon “i’ll never walk alone” (fourstonecoppi ) on 9 July, 2012 at 10:33 said
Correct mate , should be selling quality goods at fair prices .
I’m quite prepared to up my spend at the Celtic shop / online etc but we need to revamp our whole strategy to maximise our merchandising operation , we don’t need the Huns ( now dead ) we need to show we can flourish on our own . No to joint sponsorship deals.
Hail Hail
Joe Filippis Haircut
I meant to add that Friday, Morton’s Fork day, will testify just how much the smaller clubs will allow the rules to be bent. They have to make the decision and whatever they decide nobody will get all that they wished for.
BikerGerryS
If his ringtone was the Gary Og version then it was Irish and I’d guess the reason he was abused was because the hun associated the song with Ireland/Celtic, regardless of its origins. Sad I know, but true.
HH
27. This fruitcake wants involved
https://twitter.com/DEVILSADVOKAT
I don’t get too many games, however, when there I usually have a wander round the Superstore.
It’s been while since I bought the top or leisure wear as noticed it in poor shape after two or three washes.
If used with turtle wax they polish the car up quite nicely.
Would the English elect a Roman Catholic prime minister?
Stephen Bates, religious affairs correspondent
The Guardian, Friday 22 June 2007
His spiritual awakening goes back at least 30 years, to his time as an undergraduate at Oxford, but due to political considerations Tony Blair’s conversion to Catholicism has been a long time coming.
He has been attending Catholic mass, often with his family but also occasionally alone, since long before he became prime minister. His wife, Cherie, is a lifelong and practising Catholic, and in accordance with church rules their children have been brought up as Catholics and were sent to church schools.
More than 10 years ago Mr Blair was slipping into Westminster cathedral and occasionally taking communion, until the late Cardinal Basil Hume told him to stop because it was causing comment as he was not a Catholic – an injunction that bemused him at the time.
Since then he has regularly attended services conducted by Canon Timothy Russ, parish priest of the Immaculate Heart of Mary at Great Missenden, the nearest Catholic church to Chequers.
He is also known to have had discussions with priests such as Father Timothy Radcliffe, former head of the worldwide Dominican order, now at Oxford, and with Father Michael Seed, who has shephered a number of high-profile figures, including Ann Widdecome and, allegedly, Alan Clark, towards conversion. Fr Seed, an engaging if indiscreet figure, has claimed to have paid regular backdoor visits to Downing Street to talk religion, if not necessarily to advise the prime minister.
So why has it taken so long? Almost certainly because of Mr Blair’s sensitivity about the place of Catholicism in British public – and particularly its constitutional – life. The only positions specifically barred to Catholics are marriage to the sovereign or heir to the throne, or becoming sovereign themselves, a legacy of the Act of Settlement that followed the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and the deposition of the last Catholic monarch, James II; there has never been a Catholic prime minister.
In the last 40 years Catholics have entered many senior positions in British public life, generally without comment except among the wilder fringes of Protestant Calvinism: in the civil service, the Foreign Office and industry, as MPs and ministers in Conservative and Labour cabinets. The current director general of the BBC, Mark Thompson, is a Catholic and, briefly, four years ago, with Charles Kennedy, leader of the Liberal Democrats, and Iain Duncan Smith, leader of the Tories, so were the alternative prime ministers.
But the motives of Catholic politicians have traditionally been regarded with suspicion by non-Catholics, both here and in the US, based on the allegation that they take their orders from the Vatican rather than the electorate. Catholic political leaders have always denied it – but the recent antics of some bishops in the US during the 2004 presidential campaign when they threatened to deny John Kerry communion because of his support for abortion rights and, recently, Cardinal Keith O’Brien’s warning that he would do the same in Scotland, have tended to confirm old suspicions.
A number of potentially divisive moral issues would have been much more difficult if Mr Blair had been known to be a Catholic, even though his personal beliefs have not necessarily intruded into the government’s decisions.
Ministers have enacted civil partnerships for gay couples and this year faced down demands, particularly from the Catholic church, for exemption from equality provisions enabling gay couples to adopt children, even though the prime minister favoured compromise.
Equally, the government has not attempted to limit abortion rights – an issue regarded as long settled in Britain except by some mainly Catholic groups – or pushed for reduced time limits, even though the church regards abortion as a sin. And it has permitted stem cell research without conceding to Catholic opposition.
Mr Blair, like President George Bush, ignored the condemnations and warnings of the Pope and all other church leaders over the war in Iraq.
He has been keen to expand the number of faith schools and church-supported academies, in the face of strong opposition from secular groups, but here again seemingly not for reasons of religious indoctrination but because of their parental popularity.
The criticism of Ruth Kelly when she was education secretary because of her membership of the lay sect Opus Dei – at a time when the novel The Da Vinci Code had made the group more widely known – also showed that the old prejudice could still be deployed. Mr Blair probably thought he could do without the extra hassle.
He has kept his personal religious views largely out of his political life. Ostentatious religiosity does not go down well in Britain. He dropped his wish to end a prime ministerial broadcast on the eve of the Iraq invasion with the words: “God bless” on the advice of Alastair Campbell, who famously told him “We don’t do God”.
BikerGerryS on 9 July, 2012 at 10:36 said:
Sorry to have to correct you, but I think you’ll find that this is the version “eddieinkirkmichael on 8 July, 2012 at 21:15” was talking about.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRCYBbZ2EXk
“This Land Is Your Land” is one of the United States’ most famous folk songs. Its lyrics were written by Woody Guthrie in 1940 based on an existing melody, in critical response to Irving Berlin’s “God Bless America”, which Guthrie considered unrealistic and complacent. Tired of hearing Kate Smith sing it on the radio, he wrote a response originally called “God Blessed America for Me’. Guthrie varied the lyrics over time, sometimes including more overtly political verses in line with his sympathetic views of communism, than appear in recordings or publications.
Guthrie wrote the song in 1940 and recorded it in 1944. The song was not published until 1945, when it was included in a mimeographed booklet of ten songs with typed lyrics and hand drawings. The booklet was sold for twenty-five cents, and copyrighted in 1951.
Lifted from Wiki/EWLM//EWTB.
Can anyone explain to me why if it is our country the establishment bank were quite prepared to put Celtic into administration in 1994 for a few million quid but did not consider this for the Hun? Only when Lloyds ( an English bank ) took over the account that pressure was placed on minty. Funny that eh ?
Traditionalist88
I saw Eddies post too.
A wee bit disappointed he didn’t just take the law into his own hands and through the thugs off the train at the next stop.
That’s what I would have done.
(Gulp)
Dontbrattbakkinanger
I don’t think anyone is disputing the origins of the song…
HH
Gordon_J backing Neil Lennon on 9 July, 2012 at 10:38 said:
”On the RC PM debate – there is a Cabinet Office briefing paper that I used to have but cant now find. It explains how it could work – the only issue is that a PM advises the queen on appointments in the Church of England . An RC would not do that.”
It’s not a cabinet office paper. It’s a reply to a Parliamentary question by Rosanna Cunningham who was an MP at the time..
Salmond was born at Linlithgow, West Lothian, Scotland on 31 December, (Hogmanay) 1954. He is the second of four children born to Robert Fyfe Findlay Salmond and Mary Stewart Salmond (née Milne), both of whom were Civil Servants.His father’s family had been previously resident at Waterfoot, near Keswick. His middle names come from his family’s tradition of naming their children after the local Church of Scotland minister, in this case the Reverend G. Elliot Anderson of St Ninian’s Craigmailen Parish Church in Linlinthgow
– ole windbag windfarm maniac keeping Timmish tendencies hidden?
through = throw
Philbhoy
I know, I wasn’t entirely surprised to be honest- some of the abuse dished out in the corporate lounges at Ibrox is well known to be at least as bad, if not worse, than you get from the mainstream hun hordes.
They’re all hooked up to the same brain cell.
HH
traditionalist -so you’re denying me my basic constitutional CQN right to start an ole song debate, EVEN IF everyone is in agreement? ;/)
DBBIA
I didn’t put a smily after that one as I guessed everone would know I was joking!
Thanks anyway.
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Ernie Lynch,
This is the one I meant:
Prime Ministerial involvement in ecclesiastical appointments:
http://www.parliament.uk/briefing-papers/SN04403.pdf
Regarding Catholics in position of power in UK
TB converted to Catholicism after he left 10 Downing Street. A valid question might be why he felt the need to wait until after he left.
At the start of the wee dummy Scottish parliament sessions this year there was a MSP (representing Greenock?) who was previously a Priest. I understand that the Scottish laws had to be changed to accommodate him just last year
Maybe about two or three years ago someone who was about 100th in line to the throne, was due to marry a catholic girl, but that would have meant that he lost his claim to be in line to the throne, so the catholic girl had to convert religion
So I can only conclude that even in 21st Century UK there are a few rules that bar Catholics from high position in some cases.
Philbhoy- you sure fooled me ;/)
of course no reason why ole Alec couldn’t be a Tim…
Dontbrattbakkinanger
All in agreement?! Momentous days right enough! :)
HH
Morning all.
I’m not sure how the SFL clubs can vote on anything on Friday unless the SPL decide to invite Dundee or Dunfermline to join the top league over the next few days.
As things stand there is no vacancy to fill.
Burghbhoy – 1. Why are they currently not playing in a public park.?
They may well be in the near future. They’ve just been given the big KB by the SPL. Most of the SFL are similarly minded to reject any special favours for Sevco.
2. Why is a roman catholic not allowed to be a monarch or a prime minister for that matter ?
For obvious historical reasons the monarch is the head of the Church of England. See Ernie’s response re: the Prime Minister. The brand of hooting, knuckledragging hatred that is associated with the baser follow followers of Sevco inspires revulsion in most Protestants in the United Kingdom. Our constitutional arrangements are the product of our history, they’re not a vindication of hatred and bigotry in the modern age. This is not 1690 or even Northern Ireland in 1960.
Britain is very far from being a utopia but it is one of the most tolerant societies on the planet, and one where Catholics, Irish, and Celtic supporters can and do succeed to the very highest levels in their chosen professions. Look at the kind of people Celtic has on its board: billionaires and captains of industry, men who lead some of the biggest companies in the land. Look at the kind of people “Rangers”/Sevco has on its board: nonentities, wide-boys, and thimbleriggers.
And you think this is “their” country?
3 why is it acceptable to hold sectarian marches ?
In a still somewhat free society such as Britain, people should be free to hold any type of march they please. I’m not a supporter of either sectarianism or republicanism, but I believe people have a right to express their support for those things if they want to do so in a peaceful and law-abiding manner. And the rest of us are free to criticise or persuade our fellow citizens that they are wrong. The OO isn’t popular across Scotland, by the way, they’re dying out.
4.why have their been so many ‘honest refereeing mistakes’ over the years?
Why are there so many songs about rainbows?
Their sympathetic referees didn’t stop them from being flushed down the toilet. They couldn’t stop Celtic from ultimately triumphing. So much for it being “their” country that they had to cheat to maintain their supposed superiority – and they ultimately failed in the most humiliating possible manner.
5. Why is our manager so despised by not only the hun but by our supposed allies in the SPL and sfl?
Neil Lennon is often depicted in a poor light by the dead-tree-based media in Scotland, which is itself destined to go the way of Rangers, and that colours the perception of some. But Neil Francis Lennon is not a victim, he’s a champion. He’s the most successful manager working in Scottish football today, leading the most successful club in the entire Scottish league system.
Don’t go all wobbly on us now Burghbhoy. (thumbsup)
There is also the possibility of legal action from the unsucessful club (Dundee or Dunfermline) which could make things very interesting giving the time constraints to get this mess sorted.
philvisreturns on 9 July, 2012 at 11:01 said:
nice one :)
This Land is Your Land
I saw / heard The Byrds [ with Gram Parsons ] playing This Land is Your Land at The Middle Earth in London [ 68 /69 ?]
It was booed by a lot of the audience——— I doubt they were Huns -more likely hippies objecting to their psychedelic heroes playing “conservative ” folk music . Same audience booed Buck Owens covers .
It took a while for Sweetheart of The Rodeo to become a classic.
Medtim,
Well done for taking the trouble to provide a list of THEIR problems. Your list is impressive and already some additional suggestions are being made. It would be worthwhile sending a copy of this to Scottish football officialdom to remind them of the mess they are in ,as they seem to have forgotten – or maybe they just want to forget.
South of Tunis
I know that we are only confronting the news from two countries.
Manchester City position is interesting. I can’t see my Legia or Celtic Glasgow doing the same in such situation. No clearance for the fans before new season starts.
Rumours Dumbarton to say Yes to Newco in Div 1. Apologies if this is common knowledge already
HH
I’m Neil Lennon (tamrabam) on 9 July, 2012 at 10:57 said:
”TB converted to Catholicism after he left 10 Downing Street. A valid question might be why he felt the need to wait until after he left.”
That tells you more about Blair than about the British constitution.
I’m Neil Lennon – TB converted to Catholicism after he left 10 Downing Street. A valid question might be why he felt the need to wait until after he left.
Given his government’s stance on abortion, homosexual adoption, and civil partnerships, another valid question might be: to what extent does Tony Blair hold Catholic beliefs at all? I still can’t work it out. It’s not as if there was a Damascene conversion on his part, if anything he gives the impression of appearing to believe the Church should change/”modernise” to accommodate him, rather than the other way around.
I know the Church is built out of the crooked timber of humanity and all that, and some timbers are more obviously crooked than others, but that one takes the biscuit. (thumbsup)