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Posted on Tuesday, October 18, 2011 4:17 PM
So, are we convinced by the Prime Minister and Chris Huhne’s little chat with the energy companies? Did we see the big six retreating cowed, licking their wounds and promising we’d all be warm this winter. Porcine squadrons more like. Instead, we’re to be sent little leaflets urging us to switch to another company charging almost exactly the same, and those of us who have the temerity to cling to quarterly bills to go for that direct debit. |
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Posted on Wednesday, August 10, 2011 3:47 PM
We in Scotland have been a tad reticent this week in intruding on the private grief that has overtaken London and other major cities in England. Professor Tom Devine says we are a more conservative (with a small c) society, not given to civil unrest. How can he be so sure? The best way to alleviate poverty has long been to heave a brick through a designer shop window, and if poverty is the cause of the rioting, then we have communities every bit as materially poor as Tottenham. |
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Posted on Tuesday, August 02, 2011 8:12 AM
We’ve said it before. They’re looking at it through the wrong end of the telescope. We can’t help feeling that unionists down south are missing a huge opportunity for political point scoring and increasing the union dividend immeasurably by not starting HST2 from this end and working south. The project could adopt the Waverley line, now stuck with contractual difficulties in that no-one is quite sure how the Scottish Futures Trust not-for-profit alternative to PFI actually will work. Trains need only stop at the new Tweedbank station before heading south-west to Carlisle, opening up the largest swathe of countryside in Europe not served by a railway to freight and passengers. |
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Posted on Sunday, July 31, 2011 5:41 PM
News from Bloombergthat IKEA has bought a windfarm near Huntly and intends to install 39,000 solar panels on its UK stores to make full use of renewable energy. The flatpack giant already owns windfarms in Denmark, France and Germany. The bad news is that the solar panels are coming from China, which probably neutralises any carbon benefit before the project gets off the ground. And of course, any suplus energy will be sold to the grid and IKEA will claim feed-in tariffs. |
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Posted on Wednesday, February 16, 2011 3:02 PM
Now his new leaderEd Milibandhas also sought to distance himself from the great unlamented Gordon by half-apologising for Labour’s failure to regulate the banks. If either of them had any sense of contrition, they would have more accurately said, “Labour didn’t get it right on the economy |
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