From this side of ‘the pond’ the American election campaign has been fascinating to watch.
However, I now find that I am becoming very uncomfortable when I see ‘Old Whistling Teeth’ McCain on tv trying to scare people into voting against Barack Obama. I have been appalled to hear the racist and white supremist comments bandied [...]
I feel I have to comment on the leading headline in yesterday’s ‘Scotsman’, “Al-Megrahi: the dilemma”. I’m sorry to have to say this about the leading newspaper in Scotland- but what a load of twaddle. The Lockerbie bomber, it has been claimed, has only weeks to live because of prostate cancer and the question of [...]
Maybe it’s just me, but why does a country with approximately 75% of its population living on or below the poverty line, and a birth rate that is beyond imagining, need or want to send a spacecraft to the moon? Surely the money for this mission could have been more wisely spent on an attempt [...]
With the release of unemployment figures for Scotland showing 124,000 out of work, an increase of 18% since June, and news that housing sales have dropped by 44% ,while prices have dropped by 4%, I think it is safe to say that Scotland is teetering on the edge of the abyss. Recession is no longer [...]
As part of the year long celebration of arts, culture and sport – falling under the umbrella name of “The Gathering 2009″ – two events are in the limelight today.
Firstly, a sponsorship deal for the Scottish Football Association tournament sees investment from a private businessman, Willie Haughay, to the tune of £1million for the next [...]
As part of the major event being organised by BBC Scotland to examine ‘ A History of Scotland’, which will involve multimedia coverage on TV, radio and on-line, a new ten part study of “Scotland’s History” will start on TV in November.
Introduced by Professor Neil Oliver, a charismatic and fervent Scottish historian, it will take [...]
It is Cancer Awareness Month and the issue of whether cancer patients should have to pay privately for drugs is in the news.
If they do pay, should that then stop them from receiving NHS treatment. Is it right that wealth should be the deciding factor in the length of life? NHS Trusts say that they [...]
At 10.30am this morning I watched Gordon Brown take to the stage at Thomson Reuters in Canary Wharf and announce the plan that will save the financial institutions and bring commonsense back into the world of banking.
Surprise, surprise – the old adage ‘one man’s meat is another man’s poison’ has never been truer. The world tumbles deeper into recession and Iceland slips off the economic map completely, but in the meantime a certain knight or two have taken advantage of the situation and are buying up the dregs of companies, ‘owned’ [...]
The Alaskan legislative report by Stephen Blanchflower has found Sarah Palin broke state ethics law and abused her authority with her connection to the dismissal of a member of staff who would not fire her sister’s ex-husband. It sounds like a script from an episode of ‘Desperate Housewifes’, not a report on the attitude, ethics [...]
