Major score for Chancellor in appointment of next Governor of Bank of England
Chancellor George Osborne has managed to make the unimpressive Bank of England interesting and promising of a brighter strategic direction than we have seen under the stolid Mervyn King.Osborne has...
View ArticlePolitical divorce in Angus and revelations in East Dunbartonshire signal...
We are hearing stories of moves afoot to close schools in Argyll and Bute – and we have already published on Education Director, Cleland Sneddon’s, core strategy for defence in 2013.He and his...
View ArticleCouncil advertises Communications Manager job – so what happened with Jo Smith?
Argyll and Bute Council has now advertised the post of Communications Manager, held by suspended former manager, Jo Smith.Ms Smith had been suspended following her own revelation at a conference of her...
View ArticleLoch Fyne Food Fair – cooking up a celtic storm
Cooking up a Celtic Storm – the 2013 Loch Fyne Food Fair, with its culinary delights from the West Coast and beyond – takes place on Saturday 18th and Sunday 19th May in the grounds of the Loch Fyne...
View ArticleTavish Scott attacks Scottish Government on unconsulted fare hike on Serco...
Yesterday’s Shetland News reported Shetland MSP and former Scottish Leader of the Liberal Democrats, Tavish Scott, on the attack after discounted fares have been substantially hiked by Serco – the...
View ArticleHerald reveals SNP covert operations in independence campaign
Yesterday’s edition of the the Sunday Herald blew the cover off a covert SNP operation to boost the 2014 independence vote and destabilise Scottish Labur at the same time.Ir had occurred to virtually...
View ArticleHerald loses public trust in publishing Yes Scotland article
The investigation into the clearly widespread journalistic practice of hacking into electronic information and communications systems, netted a revelatory creature from the deep this week.It became...
View ArticleStory of extraordinary way EU prevented eurozone meltdown in 2011 and 2012
It is still as likely as not that this meltdown will come because little has really changed in the fiscal position of the EU’s cluster of crisis-ridden member states.However, we now know the substance...
View ArticleLess a ‘debate’ more a screaming match for three
Watching the STV Scotland Tonight Referendum Special debate in process, with the ‘head to head’ between Scotland’s Deputy First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon and the Scottish Secretary, Alastair...
View ArticleFOI documents on Castle Toward support Actual Reality’s allegations against...
Documents received by For Argyll from Argyll and Bute Council on 23rd December 2013 under Freedom of Information legislation and relating to Castle Toward and Actual Reality Learning and Leadership...
View ArticleSalmond – who else? – bangs the last nail in his Indy fantasy
Last night, in a discussion with the BBC’s James Naughtie before an audience in Glasgow, Scotland’s First Minister, Alex Salmond, personally knocked the last nail into his own already riddled...
View ArticleCrown Office statement following AAIB report on 16-fatality 2009 North Sea...
It was announced today that, five years after the event, the Air Accidents Investigation Branch [AAIB] report on the Super Puma crash in the North Sea in 2009 had found that the accident had been...
View ArticleScottish Government claims it has not even sought to know the set-up costs...
On Wednesday 28th May, Finance Secretary John Swinney was in extreme discomfort when, in response to thirteen successive questions on BBC’s Good Morning Scotland, he refused to say what the set-up...
View ArticleBucket shop academic ups his estimate for indy set-up costs from £250 million...
Professor Patrick Dunleavy of the London School of Economics, whose bucket-shop estimate of a modest £250 million for the set-up costs of Scottish independence was immediately endorsed as ‘about right’...
View Article30th August: North Connel & District Horticultural Show in Benderloch
All interested visitors are welcome to the 2014 North Connel & District Horticultural Show which takes place at 2pm on Saturday 3th August at the Victory Hall in Benderloch. There is public parking...
View ArticlePromising start for Kezia Dugdale on North Sea oil as SNP front bench reverts...
Kezia Dugdale, rookie Deputy Leader of Scottish Labour and leader in the chamber at Holyrood, had a strong and fearless start yesterday, 18th December, in the cauldron of First Minister’s questions.She...
View ArticleFirst Minister moves inland with intervention on Castle Toward
First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, has intervened in the Castle Toward melee, urging both sides to ‘negotiate constructively’ to secure the future of what she described as ‘an important community asset’....
View ArticleScotsman reports Sturgeon fast backtrack on Full Fiscal Autonomy
Nicola Sturgeon – having touted the SNP mantra of ‘Full Fiscal Economy’ in what seemed like every time she spoke for the last few weeks, has beaten a fast retreat.The reality exposed by the IFS...
View ArticleBoomerang: Salmond attack on Mundell lashes Sturgeon to Salmond’s own lies
Scenting blood in the water in the affair of the lying by former Secretary of State for Scotland, Alistair Carmichael, the Great White that is Alex Salmond MP, former First Minister of Scotland, has...
View ArticleDiseased heart of party politics laid bare in Falconer’s weasel words on Iraq...
Former Lord Chancellor Lord Falconer, mate of Tony Blair, is quoted in today’s edition of The Herald as ‘admitting’ that ‘Britain’ was wrong to ‘go in to’ Iraq.There’s a lot more to what Lord Falconer...
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