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Posted on Sunday, October 30, 2011 6:43 PM
Has Dr Eilidh Whiteford now taken her grievance a step too far? In today’sScotland on Sunday, she likens the alleged bully-boy tactics of Labour MP and chairman of the Scottish Affairs Committee Ian Davidson to women who are subjected to domestic abuse and are said to be’ asking for it’. Methinks the lady doth protest a tad too much. As doesthe paper’s editorial. Now we hold no brief for Mr Davidson, who we suspect is a product of that old West of Scotland school where men are men and women belong in the scullery. |
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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 Wednesday, February 16, 2011 5:09 PM
Today’s news that an Ipsos Mori poll has thrown Alex Salmond and the SNP a life-line in the electoral stakes has elicited guarded responses from the commentariat –muted whoops of joy from some, don’t-count-your-chickens doom and gloom from others. “…frankly, the idea of Iain Gray becoming First Minister is too depressing to contemplate before the idea is thrust upon us by cruel reality and dastardly necessity.
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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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