Russell Bruce: Scotland is doing OK, Part 10: swings, roundabouts and chutes
Or who is on an upward swing, who is going round in circles and who is on the big chute out of the Scottish Parliament?There is a very healthy sense of competition about this Scottish Election and a...
View ArticleArgyll and Bute Council: the empire strikes back with Argyll facing worst of...
The old Empire, the ad hoc grouping of Independents, the Alliance of Independent Councillors, is, with its former coalition partners, the LibDems and the Conservatives, refusing to accept its defeat at...
View ArticleLooking at Dunoon: where next?
We’ve looked at the good, the bad and the downright ugly in Dunoon – and there are plenty of all of them.The question is what the town can do with itself as it stands on the edge of being...
View Article‘Young Lochinvar is come out of the west’– geared up to go in Tarbert
MV Lochinvar, the second of the two new diesel/electric hybrids commissioned by CMAL from Fergusons on the Clyde for the Calmac fleet, has been in Tarbert on Loch Fyne since Thursday, 24th...
View ArticleInsights from Andrew Neil’s look at the impact of independence on the rest of...
Last night’s BBC 2 programme [12th August] presented by Andrew Neil – Scotland Votes: What’s at stake for the UK?, looked at the impact of Scottish independence on the nature, standing and...
View ArticleTickets and questions for BBC Radio Scotland Big Debate with Gordon Brewer in...
BBC Radio Scotland’s version of the TV debate programme Question Time – The Big Debate with Gordon Brewer [above], is at the Corran Halls in Oban on 17th October for its weekly Friday lunchtime...
View ArticleJim Murphy on the money in recall of Scottish MPs
New Scottish Labour Leader, Jim Murphy, is said today to have recalled from Westminster all of the Scottish Labour MPs, with instructions to start fighting to retain their seats.Who better to do that...
View ArticleScottish election analysis
Total immersion in number crunching and interpretation completed, the texture of this unforgettable election result in Scotland creates a memorable and, in some cases, perhaps a surprising picture.The...
View ArticleNot getting the government we vote for? Unpack the mantras.
‘We don’t get the government we vote for’ has been the mantra of the SNP in Scotland for the last couple of years.After the massive surge of the SNP vote in the 2015 UK General Election, taking 56 out...
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