NATO’s juvenile arms porn at Celtic Manor
Who really wants to join NATO? Yes, it might calm some of the nervier steeds but this week’s display of political analysis [not], warmongering, boys toys actually on the golf course – or was it some...
View ArticleCanada’s WestJet Airlines to run daily flights between Glasgow and Halifax,...
WestJet Airlines today, 3rd October 2014, announced its first ever flight to Scotland and the UK, linking Halifax, Nova Scotia and Glasgow daily from 30th May until 24th October 2015. Prices start...
View ArticleStagecoach strengthens managemnt team to support Megabus expansion
The Stagecoach Group has announced that it has significantly strengthened the management team at its megabus.com business, making a number of new appointments as the brand continues its expansion in...
View ArticleMerkel sees UK near point of no return on EU membership
Chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel, has told Der Spiegel that she sees the United Kingdom as close to the point of no return on its EU membership.Clear minded as usual, Merkel is said also to have...
View ArticleKeith Brown clarifies timetable to independence
Transport Minister, Keith Brown, the most capable and experienced of the three candidates for the Deputy Leadership of the SNP and the most capable and experienced of the two of those three who are...
View Article6 year low for Brent crude – now below $50
The price for the oil industry benchmark price of Brent crude – a barrel of oil from the North Sea Brent Field – has now fallen even below the worrying $60 a barrel.It has fallen to $47.27, the lowest...
View ArticleNorth Sea in a nutcracker
There is a massive power game going on in the worldwide oil industry, between OPEC and the USA – a nutcracker of a game in which the pressure on the North Sea is no more than collateral damage.The game...
View ArticleHas Sturgeon ‘red line’ forced MoD evaluation of Pembrokeshire as Trident...
The Scottish Daily Mail has today run a story that the Ministry of Defence is examining the viability of Milford Haven in Pembrokeshire in Wales as the base for the Trident nuclear submarine fleet the...
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 ArticleSNP candidate for Argyll & Bute in major own goal?
The SNP’s candidate for Argyll and Bute, Brendan O’Hara from Helensburgh, said in his address to SNP party members during his successful fight for selection to represent his party in the contest for...
View ArticleBlair trying to buy his way back into nationwide Labour favour
It was being reported yesterday that the Flying Dutchman of British politics, the ghost ship doomed never to be able to reach port, appears to be making another tack to port by the means he knows best...
View ArticleA national bird for the UK?
The Barn Owl appears to be one of the front runners in a search for a national bird to represent the spirit of the United Kingdom.Apparently we need to be in competition with the cocky French and the...
View ArticleAshdown salutes Salmond as a hands-on politician
The former Liberal Democrat Leader didn’t quite mean it that way, though, in what he said about the former First Minister”s recently published self-encomium [with a title too long to repeat], which Mr...
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Scotland’s Big Voice and the ‘One Vote’ fight for the Union
Every voter in Scotland, whatever their political persuasion, knows that the May 2105 General Election is about one thing only – the future of the Union.Every voter knows that this, not last...
View ArticleIMF analysis: low oil price to affect UK earliest and hit North Sea producers...
Analysis completed by the International Monetary Fund in association with independent oil and gas consulting services and business intelligence data firm, Rystad Energy – and published in the IMF’s...
View ArticleReader’s letter on opposition leaders’ televised debate
The Party Leaders’ TV Debate of 16 April was devoid of surprise but not of interest. They all wanted to see the back of the Tories and all present bar UKIP wanted to borrow more spending money. Now,...
View ArticleSturgeon’s selectivity of perspective
First of all, a few days ago, Scotland’s First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon told Sky News that Prime Minister David Cameron was taking the United Kingdom ‘perilously close’ to an exit from the European...
View ArticleThe dash from full fiscal autonomy and the biteback of the ‘no detriment’...
The SNP Scottish Government has spent the time since indyref 1 repeatedly calling for ‘full fiscal autonomy’. This has virtually been their stated price for staying in the United Kingdom – until...
View ArticleWhy should 16 and 17 year olds not take part in any UK vote?
How can there by any question as to whether or not 16 and 17 year olds should vote in the UK – when you can legally vote if you’re suffering from Alzheimers?
View ArticleThe budget as it comes – with new compusory National Living Wage of £9 an...
Introducing his budget n the House of Commons, Chancellor George Osborne has said that Britain needs to change from a high tax, low earnings, high welfare state to a low tax, high earnings, lower...
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