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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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Edinburgh welcomes UKIP

By Max Crema - reproduced courtesy of ScotsPolitics.com In the tightly controlled and pre-tested world of politics it’s not often that ...

Commentary | Sunday, 19 May 2013 | Comments

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BBC Scotland refuses to disclose political guest info as concerns grow over balance

  By a Newsnet reporter  Concerns over a possible political agenda at BBC Scotland have increased after the broadcaster refused to disclose the names of guests who have appeared on politics programmes. A Freedom of information Request made on behalf of Newsnet Scotland has been refused after we requested the names of all guests who had appeared on high profile BBC ... Read More
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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

Labour plans will 'plunge Aberdeen into traffic chaos' say SNP

The SNP claim that Labour's plan to tear up the construction schedule for the Aberdeen by-pass will plunge the city ... Read More

Road to Referendum - A new book by Iain Macwhirter

In 2014, Scotland will decide whether or not to end the 300-year old union with England.   Now, a new book ... Read More
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NHS scandal as £1 billion goes down PFI drain


Figures obtained by the SNP show the NHS will have to pay over £1 billion in the next five years in payments for Labour’s PFI legacy.  The £1.01 billion of payments is revealed in information from the Treasury.

The cost of PFI contracts for the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, Wishaw General and Hairmyres Hospital amounts to more than the capital cost of the projects....

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Oh Danny Boy

Kenneth Roy

The fact that few outside the constituency of Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey had ever heard of Danny Alexander this time last month should not be held against him. I do remember that, when he first appeared on television in the distant days of late April, I found myself muttering aloud at the screen (as one does after a certain age): 'Who is this youth?' That was unworthy of me.
Little did any of us realise – it must have come as a slight surprise in the Alexander household – that, by the fading of the May blossom, the same young man would have eaten one Cabinet post for breakfast, moved on to another, and been all over the front page of the Daily Mail as 'The Minister for Gluttony' – a reference this morning not to his obvious appetite for public office but to his liking for food at the public's expense, even when parliament was not actually sitting....

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Police numbers at record high


The number of police officers in Scotland is at a record high according to figures released today.

Figures show that there were 17,409 police officers in Scotland (as at end March 2010), 1,175 more than there were in March 2007....

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Calls for new powers leave Labour out in the cold

Labour’s influence on the Calman Commission appeared to be weakening today following calls....

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Labour’s Future and the Story of Labour Britain

Gerry Hassan

Open Democracy, June 1st 2010

The limits of Labour’s understanding of what has happened to it, where it is, and what it should do are becoming clear....

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The 'x' file - the truth is out there

Tomorrow will see another instalment of First Ministers Questions, the weekly interrogation of the First Minister carried out on our behalf by opposition party leaders and sundry backbenchers....

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Major boost for minimum pricing


The SNP’s minimum price for alcohol policy received yet another boost with the news that the main health advisory body at Westminster looks set to back the proposal.

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Cuts confusion as Iain Gray refuses to back delay

Confusion surrounded the economic policy of the Scottish Labour party today after Holyrood leader Iain Gray....

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