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Posted on Wednesday, October 19, 2011 10:37 AM
Yesterday the Sovereign Fund came into being. Part of George Osborne’s Spending Review last autumn, it changes the way we pay for the monarchy, with the Civil List being exchanged for a 15% share of the revenue of the Crown Estate. We have watched with interest the attempts by the First Minister to ensure that the increasing revenues accruing to the Crown Estate from offshore wind development around the Scottish coast and in Scotland’s coastal waters come to Scotland rather than straight into the Treasury coffers without passing Go. |
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Posted on Friday, October 14, 2011 9:35 AM
All this week the Guardian has been running a series of articles and readers’ comments under the banner ofDisunited Kingdomthat looks at the process of devolution in all three administrations. What makes it interesting, apart from excellent (if predictable) contributions fromProfessor John Curtice,AL KennedyandSimon Jenkinsamongst others, is that this is almost the first time that a UK-wide newspaper has treated the subject of devolution and independence with anything approaching seriousness. |
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Posted on Tuesday, February 08, 2011 9:39 PM
If ever there was a time to throw something at your television, it was during last night’s Newsnight Scotland. The main news of the day was the documentary circus that has been swirling round the release of the Lockerbie bomber, ever since that momentous afternoon when Kenny MacAskill did a personable impression of John Calvin in the High Kirk. Now we learn that Kenny has been taking the flak all this time when he was only doing, wittingly or not, what the Labour government down south was praying he would. |
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Posted on Monday, February 07, 2011 8:43 PM
I really want to write something positive about Scotland, and I can grant myself this wish if I stick to writing about the people and the country. All very well in theory, but it only applies if you pull the shutters down, don’t pay heed to political programmes and avoid bombardment from all the talking heads. Why do they imagine that we all spend our time weighing the political options? Whereas of course most of us spend our time with our fingers in our ears, hoping against hope they will all go away. |
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