An attempt to sell Scottish Water will undermine Scottish futures and trust
In a supreme irony, a body called the Scottish Futures Trust is said to be seriously considering selling off Scotland’s water.Set up only in September 2008 and with its CEO taking office under a year...
View ArticleThe West Coast Rail tender foul-up cannot have been ‘a mistake’
[5th October update below] The UK Government’s ‘explanation’ for why it has found it imperative to retire the entire tendering and contracting process for the West Coast rail franchise utterly lacks...
View ArticleMargaret Thatcher dies
Former Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, has died this morning, 8th April 2013, following another stroke.She was unarguably politically divisive but was equally unarguably one of the monumental...
View ArticleTroubling responses to the death of Margaret Thatcher
First of all, The Herald yesterday made the best choice of photograph to lead their coverage of the death of Britain’s longest serving 20th century Prime Minister.The photograph selected was a triumph...
View ArticleNeil Kinnock not to attend Thatcher funeral
Former Labour Leader, Neil Kinnock – the man who blew out Labour’s chances of defeating John Major in the 1992 election, with the absurdly triumphalist rally at Sheffield a week before the vote – will...
View ArticleThe return of the undead
This is a week where the dead and the undead are colonising the headlines.This morning’s nationals 12th April] were full of sonorous warnings to Labour Leader, Ed Milliband from characters from the...
View ArticleThe art of misinformation
An SNP press release yesterday headlined the shocking fact: ‘Scots now elect only 4 per cent of the UK Parliament following the expansion of the House of Lords.’This is a classic example of sleight of...
View ArticleHerald features Argyll inventor whose system was used by Margaret Thatcher to...
This makes author and inventor Alistair Strang seem as if he has invented a single IT system. Far from it.Simon Bain’s piece in today’s [2nd January 2014] Herald Business – Taking stock puts Strang on...
View ArticleHerald’s ‘senior coalition source’ may have been LABOUR peer
The SNP media team has named Baroness Jay as the person who may be the unnamed source featured in The Herald’s front page splash story of 13th February, inadvertently betraying the possibility of a...
View ArticleUK response to the Russia-Crimea situation: selfies, posturing and dangerous...
When the Prime Minister of the UK tweets ‘selfies’ of himself on the phone to the President of the USA, discussing the situation in the Crimea, we have to ask what sort of a nation we have become?The...
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Tony Benn – always a credible man
‘Credibility is saying what you mean, meaning what you say and doing it as soon as you get the chance.’This was one of the many wisdoms of the first man, Anthony Wedgwood Benn, to renounce an inherited...
View ArticleProblems with both pro-indy and pro-union campaigns
The last few days have produced a distillation of what is wrong with each of the campaigns contesting the future of Scotland.The pro-indy Achilles-heelThe First Minister’s address to the party faithful...
View ArticleMeaningless claptrap as First Minister tells EU Scotland would be ‘an equal...
What the First Minister Alex Salmond, is telling the EU inBruges today in his campaign to win support for fast tracking EU membership for Scotland in the event of a vote for indy this September,...
View ArticlePart 2: Getting the governments we vote for?
Following the issue raised in yesterday’s article, Getting the governments we vote for?, For Argyll has been doing some analysis on the Scottish General Election voting patterns over the Thatcher and...
View ArticleCorporate quadrille in airport sales weakens force of competition law
It was announced yesterday, 17th October 2014, that Aberdeen, Glasgow and Southampton airports had been sold by Heathrow Airports Holdings to a consortium of Spain’s Ferrovial and Australia’s Macquarie...
View ArticleGovernment ignores importance of civic responsibility in proposed...
A proposal to end the collection of Poll Tax debts from 1st February next year is contained within the Community Charge Debt [Scotland] Bill, published today.The Scottish Government has brought forward...
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