Culture: SNP make it roost for failed minister, Labour see it as ‘non job’
A cry of despair from our Folk & Traditional Music Editor. All the initial headlines on the SNP cabinet reshuffle focus on Fiona Hyslop’s failure at Education and Mike Russell’s promotion to...
View Article94% YES vote for Bute Community Forest at Rhubodach
(Updated below) The Isle of Bute voted today on the proposed community buy out of Rhubodach Forest for the Attenboroughs. Whatever the community decision was to be, it needed 50% of the entire islands...
View ArticleScottish Government backs off moving public information notices to free...
The Scottish Government, under Cabinet Secretary John Swinney, has long identified for reform the practice of local authorities and the Government spending money on newspaper advertising of public...
View ArticleA word of caution to the national media over the Bristol murder suspect
The landlord of the murdered landscape architect Jo Yeates, whose body was found on Christmas Day, after her disappearance on the night of 17th December, has been arrested on suspicion of her murder.He...
View ArticleHerald’s ‘senior coalition source’ may have been LABOUR peer
The SNP media team has named Baroness Jay as the person who may be the unnamed source featured in The Herald’s front page splash story of 13th February, inadvertently betraying the possibility of a...
View ArticleNo criminality in the McAlpine story – now let it be
Today’s press, , 27th March, are all over the story that the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body [SPCB] has cleared First Minister, Alex Salmond’s key aide, former journo now MSP, Joan McAlpine, of...
View ArticleThe CBI reversal: silencing people changes neither their views nor their votes
The reverberations roll on from the stupendously ill-managed decision by the Confederation of British Industry [Scotland] to commit to formal support and funding of the pro-union campaign against...
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ONE VOTE for freedom – with Scotland’s BIG Voice
Every vote in the coming UK General Election is a vote for freedom: either a vote for what will be a totalitarian restriction of freedom in an SNP dominated Scotland – independent or not; or a vote...
View ArticleTwo successive woopsies for the pollsters
They didn’t get their indyref 1 predictions right; and they didn’t get their UK General Election predictions right either – by a major distance.Two weeks out, You Gov had the pro-indy campaign winning...
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