Should the Scottish government offer to bring al-Megrahi back to Scotland?

Thursday, 28 July 2011 23:32

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by Robert Forrester

When Mr al-Megrahi was repatriated, he returned to Libya in a climate of ‘back to the oil business as usual’. Once the Arab uprisings of North Africa and the Middle East had taken hold in Libya, the US and other NATO members promptly rode roughshod over the UN and converted a civil war into one of international dimensions.

With ratlike cunning and a plausible manner, I intruded into private grief

Thursday, 28 July 2011 21:18

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by Kenneth Roy

Nicholas Tomalin (1931-73), a foreign correspondent who died in Israel covering the Yom Kippur war, is remembered not so much for his work as for a single saying. 'The only qualities essential for real success in journalism,' he wrote in the pre-Murdoch Sunday Times in 1969, 'are ratlike cunning, a plausible manner, and a little literary ability'.

BBC - an apology is not good enough, we need an inquiry

Thursday, 28 July 2011 21:03

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by Ken McNeil

The stench of the corrupt relationship between the media and politicians grows ever more obnoxious. For nationalists it gives further impetus to the struggle to break free from a deeply flawed system in terminal decline.

McCoist apology: What does this tell us about the BBC?

Wednesday, 27 July 2011 21:51

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by G.A.Ponsonby

It’s a common refrain from BBC presenters; so, what does this tell us about the state of the economy in never-never land? The question is a feed of course and the BBC reporter then presents the listener/viewer with their subjective ‘analysis’ on the subject in question.

So, what does the BBC’s very public and humiliating apology to the manager of a football team tell us? I’d argue a lot and pretty damning at that.

The inquiry judge himself has some questions to answer

Wednesday, 27 July 2011 17:20

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by Kenneth Roy

A senior judge who was asked by the UK's compromised prime minister to chair an absurdly wide-ranging inquiry into media practice – encompassing, for some unstated reason, social networking sites – is still hanging on, despite his attendance at two parties at the home of St Matthew of the Shadows, the son-in-law of Rupert Murdoch.