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UK Treasury in choppy waters

  By George Kerevan  THIS week both sides on the independence debate were firing off economic broadsides at close quarters. ...

Commentary | Friday, 24 May 2013 | Comments

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What lies behind the Farage media storm?

By Alan Bisset Last Thursday myself and the SSP’s Colin Fox were in Cupar at a Yes Scotland event, setting ...

Commentary | Wednesday, 22 May 2013 | Comments

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What Kind of European and British Union is Emergin

By Gerry Hassan, The Scotsman, May 18th 2013 Prague Spring. Two words which evoke a certain feeling, the hopes of a ...

Commentary | Monday, 20 May 2013 | Comments

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UK Treasury in choppy waters

  By George Kerevan  THIS week both sides on the independence debate were firing off economic broadsides at close quarters. There was a lot of shouting and the sound of wood splintering, but when the smoke clears will anyone have scored a decisive hit on the opposition’s main mast? First shot came from the UK Treasury with a 113-page analysis purporting ... Read More
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FM unveils Glasgow 2014 Legacy training scheme

A thousand new training and volunteering places are to be made available to young unemployed Scots to help them gain ... Read More

WWI commemorations in Scotland

Scotland will pause in memory of the many thousands who fell in battle during the First World War during a ... Read More

First Minister's Questions - 23 May 2013 - video

In keeping with our aim to provide, as often as we can, a full recording of First Minister's Questions, we ... Read More

Frustration and anger over red meat levy

Scotland’s flagship red meat industry is losing out to the tune of £1.4 million a year because of lost levy ... Read More

FM unveils Glasgow 2014 Legacy training scheme

A thousand new training and volunteering places are to be made available to young unemployed Scots to help them gain ... Read More

Former Labour councillor backs SNP candidate for Donside by-election

Former Labour councillor and Aberdeen Donside resident Norman Collie – who sat on Aberdeen City Council between 2003 and 2012 ... Read More
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Time to move forward

By Allan Grogan of Labour for Independence

"Someone in Glasgow is no different to someone in London or Cardiff and I think it's really important to remember that."

If this comment above sounds familiar it may be because you heard it on the video launch of United with Labour. But it is more likely that you will hear it from a Labour member voting no in 2014.

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UKIP: A Scottish irrelevance – a 'Scottish' media obsession

  By Campbell Martin
 
Unfortunately, British broadcasters and newspapers don’t make any concessions for Scotland, so you would be forgiven for thinking the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) was now a political force.
 
Over the past week, our so-called ‘national’ news on the BBC, broadcast from London, has been reporting how UKIP produced a seismic shift in politics by securing almost 25% of the votes cast in local government elections.  The fact those local elections only took place in parts of England and had no relevance to Scotland was barely mentioned.

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Who Speaks for Scotland and Where are the Empathy Makers?

By Gerry Hassan, The Scotsman, May 11th 2013
 
These are baffling times – of big issues and challenges, but of a politics and political conversations which are increasingly problematic, not just in Scotland but across much of the world.
 
How many times have we been told that the independence debate is a ‘once in a lifetime opportunity’ or ‘a historic moment’?

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Our friends the good English

By G.A.Ponsonby
 
Like most this week I followed the aftermath of the Ian Smart racist tweet and was genuinely saddened by the depressing mindset of some pro-Union Scots.
 
I had half prepared an article on the episode when it struck me I was being drawn into a nebulous cloud of negativity from which nothing positive could emerge.

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An Open Letter to Scottish Labour Voters, Members and Elected Representatives

By Rob Connell
 
In a scene replicated in many Scottish workplaces I’m sure, I was recently party to a lunchtime conversation on voting intention.  One colleague stated that they would "always vote for the red rose, my family always has".  I thought this beautifully stated a very popular position, and that it would be interesting to explore why.
 
Scottish Labour stands on the great egalitarian tradition of the Labour movement, with their website evoking Keir Hardie’s "new and radical force in Scottish politics" and remembering the first Labour Government in 1924 "legislating for the first major programme of municipal house building".

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Comic Trumps Academic in "Evil Cybernat" Publicity Stunts

By Roddy Macdonald
 
As the storm in a teacup that was the utterly contrived Susan Calman "abuse" and "death threats" stooshie was subsiding, Tom Peterkin of the Scotsman/Scotland on Sunday obviously thought he'd stoke the flames of Cybernat Hysteria and get in touch with Dr Gavin Bowd of St Andrews University.  On 5th May they published the article Academic Gavin Bowd Calls Police After Online Abuse.
 
This hilarious article which is almost beyond parody kicks off:

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Irish eyes are smiling

By William C McLaughlin

Now we know.  It`s official.  The Atlantic Margin which runs down from Greenland, past the west coast of Scotland and Ireland, to the west coast of Africa, has been identified by Cairn Energy as an under-explored area with great potential. 

Scotland, take note, exploration has now commenced in Ireland's Atlantic Margin.  Two licences, about 100 miles off Ireland, at the Spanish Point gas condensate and the Burren oil discoveries, are estimated to contain more than 200 million barrels recoverable oil equivalent.

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No solution in boycotting Israel

By George Kerevan
 
SHOULD UK academics boycott work with Israeli universities? Yes, says Stephen Hawking, the most famous physicist since Einstein (himself a prominent Zionist and also, as a socialist, a stout promoter of Jewish-Arab co-operation).
 
Hawking is in the news for reversing his original decision to attend the annual conference organised by Simon Peres, Israel’s president and joint winner of the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize with Yasser Arafat.

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