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The Last Post 23 Mar 2011 | 04:16 am
Today saw the dissolution of Holyrood prior to May's Scottish Parliamentary Elections. It also, for other reasons, seems like an opportune time to draw the curtains similarly on my blogging efforts he...
S&I Elsewhere 24 Feb 2011 | 10:31 pm
I have a piece up today on the excellent WalesHome website. Please drop by and take a look.
The Big Society? 22 Feb 2011 | 12:17 pm
Ask ten different Cabinet Ministers what they understand David Cameron's 'Big Society' to mean and you're likely to end up with ten rather waffly but competing answers. As far as asking the man himsel...
Boom! 3 Feb 2011 | 03:09 am
It's always a delight to see a good slapping handed out to the deserving in the letters pages of our newspapers. Here then, for your amusement, is a letter from Professor Neil Kay, in connection with ...
A World Dis-Service 28 Jan 2011 | 12:00 am
As a nat, I often find myself in an uncomfortable position when it comes to broadcasting. If life were straightforward, I'd be against the BBC and all its works, except for its Scottish outpost at Pac...
The Empire Strikes Back 20 Jan 2011 | 04:09 am
The controversy over the treatment of Professor Andrew Hughes-Hallet and Professor Drew Scott by the Scottish Parliament committee scrutinising the Scotland Bill shows little sign of abating. It's ce...
"UK taxman killed off Tartan Tax" 16 Jan 2011 | 11:16 pm
Well, well, well. After the ridiculous parade which lined up to claim that the lapse of the tartan tax represented an SNP 'betrayal' of devolution, what do we find in today's Scotland on Sunday? UK t...
Deeper and Down 15 Jan 2011 | 07:25 am
Can anyone honestly say this comes as a big surprise? Sales of the Daily Record have fallen below 300,000 for the first time, according to figures for December. Circulation across the whole Scottish...
"Of Course, They Know They Can Trust Us Not To Be Really Impartial" 21 Dec 2010 | 03:18 am
The above is a quote from Lord Reith, who wrote those words in his diary following the decision by the Cabinet not to take control over the Corporation during the 1926 General Strike. In light of some...
Hammond Must Go! 19 Dec 2010 | 12:36 am
From BBC News: North-west England travel warning after heavy snowfall Hundreds of vehicles spent the night stranded on the M6 after a lorry jack-knifed in the snowy conditions. Ambulance bosses war...
