#Alex Lockerby

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Just started reading Dan Willis's Arcane Casebook series, starring a working class P.I./Runewright who ekes out a living writing runes to find lost objects, restore clothes,...

(First book in the series free upon subscribing to the author's newletter)

You know what fantasy writing needs? Working class wizards.

A crew of enchanters maintaining the perpetual flames that run the turbines that generate electricity, covered in ash and grime and stinking of hot chilies and rare mushrooms used for the enchantments

A wizard specializing in construction, casting feather fall on every worker, and enchanting every hammer to drive nails in straight, animating the living clay that makes up the core of the crane

An elderly wizard and her apprentice who transmute fragile broken objects. From furniture, to rotten wood beams, to delicate jewelry

A battle magician, trained with only a few rudimentary spells to solve a shortage of trained wizards on the front who uses his healing spells to help folks around town

Wizarding shops where cheery little mages enchant wooden blocks to be hammered into the sides of homes. Hammer this into the attic and it will scare off termites, toss this in the fire and clean your chimney, throw this in the air and all dust in the room gets sucked up

Wizard loggers who transmute cut trees into solid, square beams, reducing waste, and casting spells to speed up regrowth. The forest, they know, will not be too harsh on them if the lost tree’s children may grow in its place

Wizard farmers who grow their crops in arcane sigils to increase yield, or produce healthier fruit

Factory wizards who control a dozen little constructs that keep machines cleaned and operational, who cast armor to protect the hands of workers, and who, when the factory strikes for better wages, freeze the machines in place to ensure their bosses can’t bring anyone new in.

Anyway, think about it.

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Alex salmond was found not guilty of 12 counts, and not proven of 1, with one count being withdrawn, if you have read the court reports or watched the trial, can you please share your thoughts?

I don’t  normally respond to anonymous questions but...

The charge which was found Not Proven was one of the two most serious - rape related - charges.  I expected a guilty on it.  He was acquitted on this most serious charge; but the jury decided that way not because he wasn’t guilty (they could have said that - they didn’t) but because the Crown didn’t do enough to prove the case.  I find that outcome achingly disappointing. But I was not a juror, so… From the reports I have read, I was amazed at Jackson QC’s defence closing.  Various hints that the entire trial was some kind of a conspiracy or a stitch up.  Why that was permitted by the judge confuses (and annoys) me.  The exact same facts and circumstances, but involving a different accused individual, would have resulted in his conviction, of that I’m sure.

No one else would be given the benefit of the doubt as their jury were allowed to hear/consider political theories (of a “stink” of conspiracy) as opposed to simply accepting the women’s testimony and being directed as to the state of the law.

I’m glad his trial was in the middle of the pandemic - at least it limits his ability to ‘victory lap’ the length and breadth of Scotland.

As to the broader impact of the trial.  We have all seen him behave as a sleaze bag - and a bully - with women.  We have heard his sexism, his lewd comments, his ‘noises’... Hell even his lawyer wished he was a better person - especially when it comes to his treatment of women.

We have also heard Sturgeon defend him.  We also know she allowed private un-minuted meetings with him after the allegation mountain got too big to hide.  We also now know the Scottish Civil Service - despite being overly stuffed with his fawning fans - had to institute procedures to keep him away from women.

He is unfit for public office, period.  The fact that his cohorts are already now demanding people’s heads (one does not know if they mean other (disloyal) SNatsis or if they mean victims and those who sought to protect them) says that his malign influence is already bubbling back to full boil.

This is a former SNP Justice Secretary - the one who released the Lockerbie bomber - here being “delighted” for a man SO vile the civil service had to introduce rules to keep him away from women…

Delete your account MacAssLick…!

I can only hope the victims all sue in civil court and take every penny the greedy, sleazy, sexist bullying bigot has been able to amass from the public purse and the cult.

THAT might finally feel like justice. 

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LOCKERBIE DOCTOR'S DEATH "NOT SUSPICIOUS"

LOCKERBIE DOCTOR’S DEATH “NOT SUSPICIOUS”

25th SEPT 2018

Police confirmed tonight that the body of a man found in a wooded area seven miles west of Dumfries is that of a missing doctor.

Dr George Porteous, also known as Alex, left his Lockerbie medical practice a week ago and hadn’t been seen despite a huge land, loch and woodland search for the 51-year-old GP.

His car was found two days later at Beeswing Village, 20 miles from…

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Book Review: In Plain Sight

Title: In Plain Sight (Arcane Casebook 1) Publisher/Author: Dan Willis Pages: 272pp Price: $14.99/$4.99

New York City. The Great Depression. Alex Lockerby is a private investigator and a runewright. Orphaned at a young age, he was trained by Dr. Ignatius Bell, a British naval physician and runewright who emigrated to the United States after the Great War. Alex is a skilled detective, but making a go of it during the Depression is tough. Most of his work comes from the police, who reluctantly call him in as a consultant -- as happens when a magical plague kills everyone at a Catholic mission and thieves make off with a shipment of precious jewels. Alex' life gets even more complicated when the FBI and Sorcha Kincaid (one of the most powerful sorceresses in the country) appear in his office, demanding that he stay out of their way as they hunt for the long-lost Archimedean Monograph. And did I mention the missing runewrights? And the Nazi saboteurs who are planning something nefarious?

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