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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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What Kind of European and British Union is Emerging?

By Gerry Hassan, The Scotsman, May 18th 2013
 
Prague Spring. Two words which evoke a certain feeling, the hopes of a generation, European idealism and the past.
 
Today Europe could not be in a more different place and frame of mind, the brief optimism of 1968 and 1989 long gone.
 
All across the continent, European political, elite and civic conversations are underway about ‘whither Europe?’ and ‘what future for the eurozone?’

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Farage and the Farrago of lies

  By G.A.Ponsonby
 
A band of hard line Scottish nationalists this week turned on UKIP leader Nigel Farage, forcing the mild mannered English gent to flee from Edinburgh in fear of his own safety.
 
This lie is being perpetrated by malevolent forces within the media here in Scotland.  It is a lie that has at its heart the aim of portraying Scots who oppose fundamental Unionism as nothing more than an anti-English Facist mob intent on silencing all who oppose them.

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Young Scots debate the independence referendum

Two young Scots representing each side in the independence debate answer questions on the merits of Scottish independence and remaining within the Union.

Ross Greer from Yes Scotland and Michael Low from Better Together give a young person's view of the debate.

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First Minister's Questions - 16 May 2013 - video

In keeping with our aim to provide, as often as we can, a full recording of First Minister's Questions, we have uploaded the latest session.

Many people are unable to navigate both the Scottish Parliament's own recordings and BBC Scotland’s online recording of the event, and thus Newsnet Scotland believes that by publishing here we make the event accessible to a much wider audience than would otherwise be the case.

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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 an event occurs which doesn’t fit into a narrative. A company will go bust and left-leaning papers will decry deregulation while their counterparts demand more. A speech will occur, a bill will be passed, a by-election will be won and you can easily predict the media packaging and allegiance for each event.
 
However, sometimes the narrative doesn’t fit.

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Scotland Inspires Me

By Gordon S. Kerman
 
I had heard about Scotland all my life, growing up in a Canadian family with a Scottish mum, whom I call M.  Before leaving Canada I travelled the length and breadth of it, from British Columbia to Nova Scotia and Dawson City, Yukon Territories to the border of the United States and beyond.

My first holiday in Scotland was in August 1995 for a two-week period.  I was immediately taken by how different and beautiful the country was in comparison to Canada.

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Ukip-Tory UK not for confederalists

By George Kerevan
 
THINGS are afoot in England. A quarter of English voters now support Ukip – a right wing, populist party that has its roots in the values and nostalgia of Middle England.
 
Boris Johnson wants the income from council tax, business rates and stamp duty devolved to the London Assembly – perfectly justifiable, but a body blow to the argument the Union is about fiscal sharing, as the metropolis is the richest part of the UK by far.

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'Better Together' just circling the drain

   By Mark McNaught

Last week the Queen gave her speech presenting the UK government’s manifesto for the next year.  As I watched it, I wondered to what degree she actually agrees with what she was proposing, or whether she was just channelling the neo-liberal think tanks that provide the Tories with their discredited intellectual architecture. 

The Queen’s Delphic treatment of the question of devolution was notably short on substance.

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