George Freeman: Badenoch must suspend whip Bob Vylan: hate speech has no place at Glastonbury or in society Greene: Scottish Government must realise economic potential of defence spending Greene responds to proposed Greenfold redundancies Cole-Hamilton: Disease burden shows NHS needs vision and foresight Cramond among 12 sites with dangerous dry weather sewage dumping Lib Dems secure U-turn from Scottish Government on sewage dumping guidance George Freeman: Badenoch must suspend whip Responding to reports that Conservative MP George Freeman has referred himself to the parliamentary watchdog over cash for questions claims, Liberal Democrat Deputy Leader Daisy Cooper MP said: This looks ...
The Scots Magazine for 1 July 1970 has a snippet about my great great grandmother's brother Sandy Campbell: Winter lingers right into early summer in this area between Dee and Spey, and this must have meant a very late sowing. But crops can be grown in unpromising places. In Queen Victoria's day the stalker at Glasallt Shiel, Sandy Campbell, used to grow a crop of potatoes on a little island on Loch Muick. "Weel, ye see, it's the best bit o' soil roond aboot," was his explanation. I think I'll take to speaking like that myself.
Alderwoman Barbara Mace who passed away surrounded by her family on Thursday As I went around the three things that I did yesterday I spend a lot of time thinking about Alderwoman Barbara Mace whose sad death we were informed of on Thursday. I went to a Church event and Barbara was a committed Christian. Then I went to two community events with a local school and a local community association. Barbara would have been in her element at all three of these events. As the obituary below from her long-standing fellow Councillor for Woolton, Malcolm Kelly, makes clear her ...
Yes, it's the song from the Birrificio Angelo Poretti cinema commercial, and I notice that EastJet have started to use if on their online advertising too. It sounds great, but if you try listening to the words you find they're gibberish. What's going on? An old New Yorker article describes Celentano (who is still with us at the age of 87) as "a sort of Italian Jim Carrey, a comic actor with a knack for the physical and goofy". He is also a singer, and Prisencolinensinainciusol was intended to convey how the American English of the rock music he loved ...
Just a few weeks after being elected in a by-election for Reform UK, Owain Clatworthy contacted the Labour Party about joining them. Elected to Pyle, Kenfig Hill and Cefn Cribwr ward on Bridgend Council in a by-election in May, he then got in touch with Labour as Nation.Cymru reports: A newly elected Reform UK councillor tried to join the council's ruling Labour group, saying he couldn't stand Nigel Farage and that Reform was full of people with big egos... [Labour Council Leader] Cllr Spanswick told Nation.Cymru: "I found it very strange. His call came out of the blue and didn't ...
Iran The Mullahs have brought Iran to the brink of disaster. Their theocratic Islamic anti-Israeli, anti-American crusading state has sown the seeds which its people are now reaping. The string of proxies which comprised Iran's "Axis of Resistance" has collapsed. Syria's President Assad has fled to Moscow. Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis have been militarily and politically castrated. Defense experts believe that the regime has already fired half of its ballistic missiles. Whether or not the regime's enriched uranium was rescued from Trump's "bunker-busting bombs" is irrelevant. The important point is that Israel now controls Iranian airspace and American bombers ...
With thanks to SJ Bogue and Dundee Memories, looking east along the Nethergate back in 1960.
The Guardian reports on comments by a senior civil servant that Home Office staff are concerned about the "absurd" decision to ban Palestine Action under UK anti-terrorism laws: On Monday the home secretary, Yvette Cooper, announced plans to ban the group, which would make membership of it, or inviting support for it, a criminal offence under the Terrorism Act, carrying a maximum sentence of 14 years in prison. It would be the first time a direct action protest group has been classified as a terrorist organisation, joining the likes of Islamic State, al-Qaida and National Action. The move has been ...
