Help to stop Facebook from sharing snuff videos
Yesterday morning, 4th May, BBC Radio 4 broadcast the most disturbing possible piece. It was looking at the outright refusal of social networking site, Facebook, to take down violent videos on or...
View ArticleParty politics on the way back as more confusion reigns in Argyll and Bute...
It appears that the legal rules obtaining on multiple group memberships in Argyll and Bute Council have been confused by an ad hoc decision made by senior officers some years ago – and which appears...
View ArticleGrangemouth: facts, consequences and issues
Today the Unite Union has performed an about turn in conceding to the position of Ineos, owners of the Grangemouth petrochemical plant and its associated oil refinery.This is an admission of an initial...
View ArticleSneddon runs white flag to half mast on council deception of parliamentary...
Cleland Sneddon, Argyll and Bute Council’s Education Director, has found it necessary to ‘clarify’ for the Scottish Parliament’s Education Committee, the written ‘evidence’ he submitted to the...
View ArticleSilly sally into foreign affairs makes Scottish Government look hicksville
Making a misguided attempt to play in a league well above its performance rating, the Scottish Government swelled to a belief that it could bring its influence to bear on the Russian bear.Culture...
View ArticleChilcot must remember that his report on the Iraq war was commissioned in the...
The camp of discredited former Prime Minister, Tony Blair, is continuing to obstruct publication of the report of the Public Inquiry led by Sir John Chilcot into Britain’s involvement in Iraq between...
View ArticleIndy: which masters of the sooniverse?
We have a United Kingdom with:an operational principle of government that is neither designed for nor fit for what it needs to do in today’s world;Northern Ireland currently in retrogressive mode;Wales...
View ArticleChallenge to the Scottish Greens over support for indy
The credibility of the Scottish Greens is under increasing pressure as the genuine fragility of the prospectus for Scottish independence becomes ever more transparent.For Argyll has said from the early...
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 ArticleInsights from Andrew Neil’s look at the impact of independence on the rest of...
Last night’s BBC 2 programme [12th August] presented by Andrew Neil – Scotland Votes: What’s at stake for the UK?, looked at the impact of Scottish independence on the nature, standing and...
View ArticleSalmond pledge at Arbroath: seriously crackpot stuff
Scotland’s First Minister, engine of the campaign for an independent Scotland, gave a startling and revelatory pledge to a public audience in Arbroath yesterday, 19th August, during the cabinet’s day...
View ArticleSunday Times commissioned study on indy setup costs
The Sunday Times commissioned an independent and politically neutral study of the likely setup costs for an independent Scotland from the Centre for Economics and Business Research; and has published...
View ArticleOut of control Salmond scores own goal on poll-tax
Two wrongs don’t make a right. However theoretically justified it may have been, it was distasteful and democratically damaging for Scottish local authorities to pillage new voter registrations for the...
View ArticleUnited Kingdom devolution: a dog’s dinner to herd cats
Only Tony Blair, a second-division legal brain and a man for whom the headlines counted a great deal more than the substance of anything, could have presided over the mess that was the initial...
View ArticleConundrums and codswallop on United Kingdom constitutional reform
Constitutional change in the United Kingdom is now inevitable. It is being driven by the pledge to devolve to Scotland powers additional to the 2012 Scotland ACt, which will come into being in 2015 and...
View ArticleGigha community ownership on brink of failure
For Argyll warned some time ago – during the work of the Land Reform Review Group and during the rampant politicisation of land reform as a recruiting sergeant for votes for independence during the...
View ArticleBrown clueless in trying to swerve constitutional issues
Former Prime Minister and Leader of the Labour Party, Gordon Brown, has called for Scotland to ‘stop obsessing about constitutional issues’ and get on with developing the economic performance and the...
View ArticleNorth Sea caught in a nutcracker
There is a massive power game going on in the worldwide oil industry, between OPEC and the USA – a nutcracker of a game in which the pressure on the North Sea is no more than collateral damage.The game...
View ArticleSalmond tries sleight of hand move on full fiscal autonomy
Hardly – on evidence, the Gold Standard of accuracy on anything fiscal after his contortions on oil and currency during indyref, Alex Salmond seems nevertheless to have tried to conjure the...
View ArticleScotsman reports Sturgeon fast backtrack on Full Fiscal Autonomy
Nicola Sturgeon – having touted the SNP mantra of ‘Full Fiscal Economy’ in what seemed like every time she spoke for the last few weeks, has beaten a fast retreat.The reality exposed by the IFS...
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