New collective noun: a Stramash of Ministers, with Secretary of State for...
Only hours after the announcement of the forthcoming visit of Commonwealth Games and Sports Minister, Shona Robison, comes the news that Stramash is expecting the Secretary of State for Scotland,...
View ArticleChildren and Young People Bill a kafkaesque nightmare and an unachievable mess
Tonight, 19th February 2014, the Scottish Parliament passed The Children and Young People [Scotland] Bill. 103 MSPs voted for it and 15 abstained.The major controversial element in this bill,...
View ArticleFirst justice now education in a mess
Scotland is only just catching its breath in the 12 month moratorium Scots law was given last week before the Scottish Government returns to attempt to push through the dropping of the requirement for...
View ArticleCouncil unable to sustain the Dunoon population summit – cancelled
Argyll and Bute Council has just cancelled the ‘Population Summit’ it was hosting this Friday, 9th May 2104, at the Queen’s Hall in Dunoon.This action has been taken because the headline speaker,...
View ArticleCouncil’s cancelled Population Summit: it gets worse
Two more pieces of information make even more hay of Argyll and Bute Council’s ramshackle decision to cancel their entire invitation-only ‘Population Summit’ in Dunoon tomorrow, 9th May – because the...
View ArticleSwinney offered Russell as substitution for population summit within hours of...
Argyll and Bute Council appears to have been very swift indeed to decide not to go ahead with the Population Summit that should have taken place on Friday 9th May in Dunoon.For Argyll has had sight of...
View ArticleNew Field Studies Council Scotland reopens Millport’s former marine research...
The Marine Biological Research Station at Millport on Great Cumbrae in the Clyde has reopened with a refocused identity as a teaching facility.Its future is now secure under the management of the new...
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Politics, courtesy, Argyll and Bute Council and the binned population summit
For Argyll has now seen papers which demonstrate that Argyll and Bute Council treated local MSP, Michael Russell with an indefensible level of discourtesy over his participation at the so-called...
View ArticleCouncil by-election result: Labour takes first seat in Argyll and Bute...
[Updated below] In a personal and political triumph, Neil MacIntyre has won the Oban South and the Isles by-election [Ward 4] for a seat in Argyll and Bute Council.Neil MacIntyre is a familiar...
View ArticleIndy: which masters of the sooniverse?
We have a United Kingdom with:an operational principle of government that is neither designed for nor fit for what it needs to do in today’s world;Northern Ireland currently in retrogressive mode;Wales...
View ArticleSNP in serious split in Oban North & Lorn by election
First of all, there are five candidates nominated for the Oban North and Lorn by-election on 17th July 2014, for one vacant place on Argyll and Bute Council. They are, in alphabetical order:Gerry...
View ArticleOban SNP horrified as local MSP sets up event competing with next week’s...
The Oban branch of the SNP has not had its sorrows to seek – and from its own party. Since the local elections in 2012, when it took four of the eight seats in the two Oban wards of Argyll and Bute...
View ArticleMoving Michael Gove out of education says it all about the cost of our...
UK Education Secretary, Michael Gove, bright, opinionated, determined, not suffering fools, arrogant, abrasive, unpopular – and right – has been moved out of the education brief to which he has...
View ArticleNational newspaper lambasts SNP mess in Argyll
Today’s Daily Mail is carrying an article, across the full width of Page 4, with a weighty headline pronouncing ‘Party crisis on Education Secretary’s home turf’.The piece details the schisms and...
View ArticleEducation Secretary wil accept a ‘No’ vote –‘for the time being’
The agreement on the Independence Referendum is that both the pro-independence and the pro-union sides will accept as final ‘the sovereign will of the Scottish people’ on the issue, as expressed...
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‘Voice of Oban’ a clear SNP smear attempt on Councillor Roddy McCuish
A long anonymous tract was circulated electronically yesterday – as ‘The Voice of Oban’, graced by no names but working hard to smear the now Independent local Councillor and former SNP Leader of...
View ArticleIndy, research funding and Scottish universities
Yesterday’s edition of The Herald, 1st September, reported that ‘Scotland’s major universities are preparing for an exodus of some of their most accomplished scientists’ if there is a vote for...
View ArticleSNP lose another Argyll & Bute councillor
[Corrected below] SNP Councillor John Semple of South Kintyre has stood down from Argyll and Bute Council.He has give us this personal statement: ‘I am still a member of the SNP but no longer a...
View ArticleRussell gazumps new First Minister’s Cabinet reshuffle announcement
[Updated 12.30 - emerging reshuffle detail and cabinet portfolios.] In advance of new First Minister Nicola Sturgeon’s imminent announcement of her reshuffled government team, Argyll and Bute SNP MSP...
View ArticleFirst Minister’s revelatory refusal to pay Scotland’s share of upkeep of Head...
The news that Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon is refusing to pay the £2 million a year that is assigned to Scotland towards the costs of the Royal Family raises a series of questions and...
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