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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 ...

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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 ...

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Farage-ism yet another nail in 'Better Together' c

By Mark McNaught  It is the night of the long knives for David Cameron, after 114 backbenchers revolted and voted ...

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Labour MSP Ken Macintosh left red faced as Amazon attack backfires

  By a Newsnet reporter The SNP has accused the Scottish Labour party of hypocrisy after Labour's finance spokesperson Ken Macintosh attacked the Scottish Government over its use of Regional Selective Assistance (RSA) which helped online firm Amazon bring a significant volume of jobs to Fife. At First Minister's Questions, Mr Macintosh criticised the Scottish Government's decision to award £10 million ... 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

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

SNP MSP leads debate on a national tree for Scotland

An SNP MSP has said now is the ideal time to name Scotland's national tree in a debate in the ... Read More
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On Living in an Old Country: The Power of the Past after Thatcher

By Gerry Hassan, The Scotsman, April 15th 2013

The last week has effectively been an elegy on Britain’s recent past and present rolled into one.

This is not just about Thatcher, but the numerous references to the Churchill and Attlee funerals and how we marked these past titans. Is this who we really were, we ask with curiosity? Are we still that same people who dreamed dreams, stood alone against the Nazis, and built a welfare state, we ask, with a hint of anxiety?

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Thatcher’s Positive Legacy: an Independent Scotland

By Mark McNaught

The reaction to the death of Margaret Thatcher has reminded the UK how divisive her reign as Prime Minister was, and the extent to which her economic and social policies were a Rorschach test for the UK electorate.

Her defenders see a neo-liberal gladiator, thrashing unions and regulations to bring about a free-market utopia, where ‘aspiration’ and upward social mobility are the most valued attributes. Working people who simply want to earn a decent living and raise their children do not get a ticket.

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Why did the banks only become Scottish after they failed?

By Gordon MacIntyre-Kemp 
 
Why did the banks only become Scottish – after they failed?  This joke reminds me though, of the one of the rallying calls of the ‘No’ campaign.

The accusation that 'Scotland’s' banks were bailed out by the UK; specifically Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and Halifax Bank of Scotland (HBoS).

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Out of sight out of mind

By Calum Ansell

The decision taken last week by David Cameron not to get involved in a debate with Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond on the issue of Scottish independence is one that has, by and large, passed the traditional Scottish media unnoticed despite its significance.

Being the elected leader of the institution that the Better Together campaign is asking Scots to endorse means that Cameron cannot take a back seat in this debate. As Prime Minister of the United Kingdom one would think that Cameron should be campaigning with “every single fibre” he has instead of leaving the debate to a previous and previously disgraced Chancellor of the Exchequer.

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Thatcher and us

By Alex Robertson

Mao Tse Tung was once asked what he thought the effect of the French Revolution had been on France, Europe and the world. ‘Far too early to say’ was his short response.

I felt like that when I heard the news of the death of Lady Thatcher. But pundits, whether in studios or newsdesks, armchairs or folk in George Square far too young to have even been alive when she was in office, are not to be deterred by such ‘long view’ notions such as Mr. Mao.

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George Kerevan: creating fiscal fix just possible

  By George Kerevan
 
I’M JUST back from Asia where they still make things – mobile phones, computers and all the fashionable clothes you like to wear. Of course, a lot of this fancy stuff is designed in the West. But don’t imagine the Chinese lack either the culture to design entrancingly beautiful things, or the brains to write software.
 
Arriving back home, I read the papers with my normal dismay. The main headlines were about a prime minister who left office before cellphones were available (read: nostalgia) and the impact of welfare cuts (read: managing decline).

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Newsnet Scotland's leaflet promo returns

Newsnet Scotland has pleasure in announcing the re-activation of our promotional leaflet campaign.
 
At the beginning of the year we launched a trial campaign aimed at getting our readers involved in promoting the website.  We were taken aback by the response and our initial print run of 5000 leaflets was snapped up within the first three days.

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Thatcher’s real Legacy

By A.Anderson

On Monday the British Prime Minister, David Cameron claimed that Margaret Thatcher had “saved Britain” by the economic policy she adopted and stuck to, in such a stubborn manner, while other politicians and news pundits made similar claims.

So what was Thatcher’s contribution to economic policy in Britain and is there some clear definition of Thatcherism?

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