Collisions between environmentalists and salmon farmers in evidence to...
In papers issued at the start of 2013 by the Rural Affairs and Climate Change Committee of the Scottish Parliament, much of the additional written evidence submitted was understandably focused on...
View ArticleArgyll and Bute: where now – experiences and choices?
In the unprincipled goings on of the last administration, led by the Alliance of Independent Councillors, we hoped that a party-led administration would bring a discipline and a set of principles that...
View ArticleSNP Group to meet on Tuesday 20th in time to put Argyll and Bute for Change...
The charade continues.SNP Group ‘Leader’, Councillor Sandy Taylor, has emailed his colleagues with a notification, but little detail, of the SNP’s attendance at two meetings this week:the Council-wide...
View ArticleUncontrolled mob rally: BBC ‘Scotland Decides’ debate
Watching tonight’s BBC 1 ‘debate’, Scotland Decides, in the hope of an interesting and informed debate, turned out to be an unpleasant – and disturbing – experience.There is usually a degree 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...
View ArticleScottish Government press releases now indistinguishable from those of the...
The Scottish Government appears to be throwing all semblance of public service propriety to the winds in the last desperate scramble for votes that marks the final period of its campaign for Scottish...
View ArticleFundamental lack of ambition to earn in independence prospectus
In one month’s time today, 18th August, we will vote – not on the notion of independence but on a specific prospectus about which the First Minister has been unequivocal. This is the mandate which...
View ArticleIndy, the banks and the Scottish economy
[Updated below 23.55 27th August] Without the Bank of England as lender of last resort, whatever the banks did in an independent Scotland – stay or go – would be bad news. That is the stark reality of...
View ArticleJim Murphy hit by eggs in Kirkcaldy
Labour’s former Secretary of State for Scotland, Jim Murphy MP, was hit very messily on his back by eggs during his visit today to Kircaldy in Fife.This was part of Mr Murphy’s personal pro-union...
View ArticleSNP irresponsibly fuelling dangerous inflammation when Scotland needs calm
This morning at 10.40, a Saturday and one day after Scotland was shown to have expressed an unequivocal decision to remain within the United Kingdom, the SNP media team sent out a press release...
View ArticleScotland heading to be a one-party state
There are six places vacant on Oban Community Council, with a by-election to be held to fill them.A slate of six SNP activists, some senior, including Ken MacColl, Iain S MacLean’s election agent in...
View ArticleCKD Galbraith say new tax and support proposals create minefield for sporting...
The Scottish Government’s proposals to end business rates exemption for sporting estates and to place these estates on the negative list for support through the Common Agricultural Policy will create a...
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