Have they heard of Stern in the Scottish Executive?
8/11/06 Typical. You wait forever for a fast rail link to Edinburgh and then three come along at once. In fact, as the Herald reported yesterday, there could be four different ways of getting to the...
View ArticleWaiting for Gordo
Where is Gordon? What is he doing? The SNP are continuing their climb up the Scottish opinion polls, now leading Labour by 32% to 30% in the latest Mori survey. 51% of Scots told the same poll that...
View ArticleHanging’s too good for him
12/11/06 Look, I too am also opposed to the death penalty. But sometimes even I wonder if there should be an exception made. For Tony Blair. After all, there we were last week condemning Saddam Hussein...
View ArticleMSPs and their mortgages
Last week, as a result of disclosures in this paper, the Scottish Parliament agreed to review the system of living allowances which has permitted MSPs to make large gains on the Edinburgh property...
View ArticleSo now we talk to Iran and Syria?
Somebody help me. I’ve lost the place. One minute Tony Blair is asking Syria and Iran to help broker a peace deal in Iraq; the next, he’s attacking them for supporting the very Iraqi insurgents who are...
View ArticleClunker Brown
“However much you dance around the ring, at some point you’ll come within reach of a big clunking fist” jeered Tony Blair during the Queen’s Speech debate last week. The “dancer” is of course the Tory...
View ArticleNow everyone wants to cut orporation tax
The First Minister, Jack McConnell, is in trouble again with our old friend “Government Source”. Mr Source says that the FM “blundered” when he appeared to call for the Scottish Parliament to be given...
View ArticleGood speech. But Blair gets it wrong on the SNP
When Tony Blair told the Labour conference in Oban that: “In this election there are only two possible outcomes: a Scottish Nationalist Party Government or a Labour one” he was talking nonsense, pure...
View ArticleTrident is still wrong.
You’ll have had your debate. It took about an hour on Thursday for the decision to be taken by the UK Cabinet to replace Trident. The consultation will be an empty one, taking place over the Christmas...
View ArticleTen years after independence
. It’s now ten years since the repeal of the Act of Union between Scotland and England. At times, it looked as if the two countries would never learn to live together in harmony again. But things have...
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