By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart As I sit in my Kailyard I wonder often about the future. It was the 13th of March 1996. It was crisp and frosty in the morning; the type of morning when you had to scrape the ice from your car windscreen. By around 9.30am, a 43-year-old man had driven 5 […]
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Looking Back at the Atrocity of Thomas Hamilton Who Killed 16 Innocent Children, One Teacher and Then Himself in 1996! We Must Never Forget…


Lockdown, Lowdown from Scotland: BBC TV Mini Series DI Thorne


By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart In series two, the Governor was joined by Cristina Yang. He had to fly solo in series one, though he did have Petyr “Littlefinger” Baelish as support. Mixing future stars from the Walking Dead, Grey’s Anatomy and Game of Thrones, was not to green light the third series but for two […]
Ringside Report Looks Back At Boxer Clinton Mackenzie


By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart The immigrant population of the United Kingdom has done to boxing what the immigrant population in France has done to football. It has provided us with some exceptional sports people and Clinton Mackenzie, 36-14, 12 KO’s is a perfect example of this. Born, one of seven children in Jamaica, this light […]
The Death Penalty: Views, Reasons Against & More…


By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart As I sit in my Kailyard I wonder often about the future. I love Virginia: not in the spring time, not in the fall but for every season. Oh, I have never been there and to be fair, am unlikely to ever have the opportunity to go but if I did, […]
Lockdown, Lowdown From Scotland… – Let’s Talk About The Belgian Detective Hercule Poirot


By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart The gait, the walk, the twiddling of the moustache. The use of the little grey cells. For many of us, the epitome of the Belgian detective – he is NOT French – came in the shape and mannerisms of one David Suchet. There had been many incantations of one Hercule Poirot, […]
Justice for Harry Dunn Who Was Killed by Anne Sacoolas Is Long Overdue!


By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart As I sit in my Kailyard I wonder often about the future. Anne Sacoolas drove out of her home and onto the roads in the United Kingdom. She was new to the area and new to the country. Within a few minutes of having left her house she was involved in […]
Lockdown, Lowdown from Scotland…


By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart British television is a curious affair. Begun through the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) it is funded through the universal license fee. In essence, if you wanted to watch the television , you had to pay the license fee. The BBC got it all and is state run, albeit at arms-length. Then […]
Ringside Report Pays Tribute to The Late/Legendary Former Undisputed Middleweight Champion of the World Marvelous Marvin Hagler (1954-2021)


By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart For once mere words may be insufficient to record the significance of one person’s passing. Words like colossus, legend, icon are peppered around like confetti when an ordinary person may be lost but, when a man who had the humility and the presence of Marvin Nathanial Hagler, 62-3-2, 52 KO’s, unexpectedly […]
Ringside Report Looks Back at Former IBF Light Heavyweight Champion Prince Charles Williams


By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart A six year reign as world champion and there is precious little out there to explain how he managed to get to the top of his tree could be argued as a bit of a disgrace or just the fact that his career epitomizes the phrase, hidden gem. Turning professional on […]
Ringside Report Demands Justice for Daniel Prude & Sheku Bayoh!


[AdSense-A] By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart As I sit in my Kailyard I wonder often about the future. Daniel Prude. Not perhaps the same as George Floyd but the problem we have with names is their currency. By spouting them off we can devalue their merit as we think that the recognition, they have with the […]
America We Are Glad To See You Back Wanting To Work With Allies Again, Not Crap On Them!


[AdSense-A] By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart As I sit in my Kailyard I wonder often about the future. “America is back” and is fully engaged in helping resolve issues including the pandemic, climate change and Iran’s nuclear ambitions, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has told the BBC. The world has returned to its place within […]
Ringside Report Remembers Boxer Davey Lee Armstrong (1956-2021)


[AdSense-A] By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart Davey Lee Armstrong, 24-3, 14 KO’s. From where is sit, it sounds like a cavalier cowboy who has gone west to tame the outlaws, but it is really a Washington native, who ahs lost his final battle but is well remembered as a man of great modesty. Armstrong was a […]
Bruce Castor & David Schoen Make Bad Lawyers Look Even Worse With Lies, Horrible Acting and Much More…


[AdSense-A] By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart As I sit in my Kailyard I wonder often about the future. As we gaze across the pond at the state of American politics, please believe me we are not laughing. To do that, your jaws must occasionally meet. For much of the last 5 or 6 years the lower […]
Ringside Report Remembers the Beloved Former Heavyweight Champion “Neon” Leon Spinks (1953-2021)


[AdSense-A] By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart When I saw the weigh in, for the rematch between Anthony Joshua and Andy Ruiz, JR. something tugged at my memory. It was not that I knew Ruiz, JR. so well that he had repeated an error of his past or that Joshua had shown something which reminded me about […]
Dolly Parton, John Lennon and Muhammad Ali: A History of Medals Presented and Medals Turned Down!


[AdSense-A] By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart As I sit in my Kailyard I wonder often about the future. Every country has a form of reward for its citizenry. The United Kingdom has a long-established Honors System which has seen quite a few nominated people either refusing to accept or handing their rewards back. Actor Michael Sheen […]
Ringside Report Takes a Closer Look at Boxer Yvan Mendy – Boxing News


[AdSense-A] By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart A nemesis is a name you shudder at the speaking thereof; someone to whom you owe a debt not worth paying. We often hear of them as being the guy or gal who someone we value cannot get out of their head or that they are unable to beat. The […]
There Is No Republican Party Anymore!


[AdSense-A] By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart As I sit in my Kailyard I wonder often about the future. Headlines are one thing and getting the top job, for many, is the only thing that matters in politics. It is not. Good government comes not from being the head of state and able to dictate what is […]
Ringside Report Looks Back At Former World Title Challenger Pete Ranzany


[AdSense-A] By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart It’s been a while since I have had a name and target from “Bad” Brad to go and research and there are times when I miss it. The opportunity to delve online into fights about which I knew nothing before and the chance to get to know people whose careers […]
Ringside Report Looks Back at Former Boxing Champion Michael Katsidis


[AdSense-A] By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart Southern hemisphere boxers. There have been quite a few that have traveled all the way to the UK and given us a scare. Whilst former WBO heavyweight champion, Joseph Parker has his fight with Junior Fa touted as the biggest thing down under, it was the smaller guys that kept […]
Donald Trump & The Death Penalty!


[AdSense-A] By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart As I sit in my Kailyard I wonder often about the future. The debate the world over, that springs from the death penalty is something we have had reason to reflect upon over here in the UK as the final few days of the Trump administration has seen federal executions […]
Two Days For the End At Least From The Bully Pulpit of One Donald John Trump!


[AdSense-A] By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart The clock strikes midnight, and all is quiet. Tuesday the 19th January 2021… Two people sit for the last time in the Not So Oval Office. Picture the scene… Orange Aide and Agent Orange are sat with champagne. They each have filled glasses and they are smiling.
Ringside Report Remembers British and Commonwealth Boxing Champion Nicky Booth (1980-2021)


[AdSense-A] By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart It is sobering to realize that of my first two articles about individual boxers for Ringside Report in 2021 they have both been to celebrate the life of boxers who have passed away. The pandemic has got grip of us but from both of these boxers it was not COVID-19 […]
Donald Trump and All Political Enablers Need to Face Justice Finally!


[AdSense-A] By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart As I sit in my Kailyard I wonder often about the future. “A serious attack on democracy.” From a country once said by George W Bush, to be economically backward, because it did not have a word for entrepreneur, that sounds like stinging criticism, courtesy of France. As we all, […]
Donald Trump Implodes Over Being Banned From Twitter!


[AdSense-A] By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart Mr. Trump is dancing in the Not So White House… Picture the scene… It is a Wednesday. Not much happens on a Wednesday… But Mr. Trump is singing and dancing… On the television screen that is held on the wall of the Not So Oval Office there are scenes of […]