Westminster’s still in recess. With the cost of living crisis and looming fuel bills there’s good reason it should’ve been recalled. In any event urgent decisions are made by Government and yet despite only being weeks away from demitting office Boris Johnson swanned off on two holidays. That’s a dereliction of duty. Major decisions are for the incoming Prime Minister… Read more »
Keith Anderson, Scottish Power’s chief executive, has now publicly voiced fears his company had been talking about privately as he spoke of the need for government action on fuel bills. They know the price hikes that are coming and can see the crisis looming. They’ll face non-payment of bills but there’ll be a much wider manifestation of societal discontent that’ll affect us… Read more »
Angela Rayner’s comments that Scottish independence would leave England “to perpetual Conservatism” were both factually inaccurate and, what’s worse, a counsel of despair. Even if every seat in Scotland had voted Labour in 2019, Johnson would have won, as Thatcher managed in her day. The problem therefore lies in England not Scotland and tactics to win there are what should… Read more »
The Manchester Arena bombing in 2017 was yet another in a litany of terrorist atrocities. Twenty-three people were slain and the return home of the body of a young girl to Barra was haunting. Many will be aware that the bomber from Libya died at the scene and his brother was later convicted of assisting him. Case closed you might think?… Read more »
It was Boris Johnson who said he wanted the UK to become the “Saudi Arabia of wind”. Whoever succeeds as PM, whether Truss or Sunak, may use different language but the opportunity and indeed necessity of it remains and the drive will continue to harness the natural power off Scotland’s shores. Scotland should stand to benefit from that being blessed… Read more »
I’m a huge fan of the Irish comedy show “Father Ted”. The number of shows is sadly limited given the tragic and far to early death of Dermot Morgan who played Father Ted. One of my favourite episodes though was “Kicking Bishop Brennan up the Arse”. In this show Father Ted has to do the needful to his superior following… Read more »
There’s truth in the maxim that it’s governments which lose elections not oppositions that win them. But you’ve still got to make an effort when you’re the challenger. No matter how hopeless an administration may be, folk still want to vote for something else. You can’t just rest on a stampede to get the other lot out. It’s also a… Read more »
ALBA Depute Leader and MP for East Lothian Kenny MacAskill has today (Wednesday 3 August 2022) exposed the scandal of the “Great Berwick Bank Robbery” Speaking at the Photo Call with a “highway robber” outside the UK Government Offices in Edinburgh Kenny MacAskill said: “With over 300 turbines and the capacity to generate 4.1 Giga watt and power three million homes the… Read more »
The net cast by the scandal at South Lanarkshire College is widening and shows just why the Education Secretary has to intervene. It’s bad enough that there’s a smell emanating from the college caused by a report mentioning “homers” by staff and a culture of fear in the institution. Yet the report remains unpublished despite being widely available to media… Read more »
And so its come finally to us. Any thoughts that Global Warming only affected poorer lands in the southern hemisphere or around the Mediterranean shores have already been shown to be fanciful. Wealthier countries such as France have been struggling with wildfires in recent weeks, just as Germany faced floods not too long ago. This wasn’t simply a replication of… Read more »