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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 ...

Commentary | Monday, 20 May 2013 | Comments

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Danny Alexander's 'appalling hypocrisy' on Highland flights

By a Newsnet reporter Lib Dem MP for Inverness Nairn Badenoch and Strathspey, Danny Alexander, who is also Chief Secretary to the UK Treasury, has been accused of "appalling hypocrisy" by the SNP after air company Flybe announced the sale of its Gatwick landing slots, which will result in the loss of flights between Inverness and London. Mr A... 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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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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Why Scotland must stay in Europe

By Tony Giugliano

Next year's referendum will not only be about Scotland's future in the Union, but about Scotland's place in the world.

It'll be a choice between a UK increasingly marginalised at the European fringes and an independent Scotland working constructively with her neighbours.

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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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If you liked the bedroom tax you'll LOVE the next coalition

By Ken Ferguson

The sweeping gains by the "fruitcakes" of UKIP - which we look at elsewhere in this Voice - throws a harsh spotlight on the growing chasm between the politics of England and Scotland.

Bluntly put, in the mainstream of Westminster's largely English-based politics, the dominant trend is moving policies increasingly to the hard right backed by shrill campaigns - often racist - in the tabloid press, which in turn set the tone of the debate.

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