e-borders brings more UK state surveillance – an unpaid fine could prevent...
The UK Government plans to introduce an e-borders scheme, costing £1.2billion and linking government agencies, travel industry systems and transport hubs like ports, airports, major railway stations...
View ArticleLabour in melt down
At a time when dwarves cast long shadows, Patricia Hewitt and Geoff Hoonhave launched a letter to members of the Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP) asking for signatures to a call for an alternative...
View ArticleMail on Sunday reveals Hutton ordered David Kelly’s medical records closed...
Today’s Mail on Sunday carries one of the most staggering and inexplicable revelations around what is already the strange death of Dr David Kelly, the United Nations Weapons Inspector, in July 2003.It...
View ArticleArmando Iannucci tells of deadly signals in Iraq
Film-maker and author of TV series In the Thick of It and film In the Loop – both letting light into the shambles behind the scenes of government – Armando Ianucci reveals a shocking fact about the...
View ArticleOnce a Bliar
It has emerged that the attempt to rehabilitate the profoundly discredited Tony Blair into some connection with formal British political life has now caused a year’s delay to the final report of the...
View ArticleReal hope for medal recognition for Arctic Convoy veterans?
Its difficult to hope after such a long sequence of lack of interest, evasion and broken promises – the most galling of which was the current Prime Minster’s unequivocal commitment to awarding medals...
View ArticleBlair hotline to God still in working order
[Updated below] Discredited former Prime Minister, Tony Blair, is still searching for any possible excuse for his unlawful action in taking Britain to war against Iraq in 2003 – with its 10th...
View ArticleIraq veteran to be presented with service medal by Veterans Minister who had...
Tomorrow, 27th January at 2pm in his constituency office on Alloa, Veterans Minister, Keith Brown, MSP for Clackmannanshire and Dunblane will complete a story in which he has already played a key...
View ArticleUK response to the Russia-Crimea situation: selfies, posturing and dangerous...
When the Prime Minister of the UK tweets ‘selfies’ of himself on the phone to the President of the USA, discussing the situation in the Crimea, we have to ask what sort of a nation we have become?The...
View ArticleChilcot must remember that his report on the Iraq war was commissioned in the...
The camp of discredited former Prime Minister, Tony Blair, is continuing to obstruct publication of the report of the Public Inquiry led by Sir John Chilcot into Britain’s involvement in Iraq between...
View ArticlePart 2: Getting the governments we vote for?
Following the issue raised in yesterday’s article, Getting the governments we vote for?, For Argyll has been doing some analysis on the Scottish General Election voting patterns over the Thatcher and...
View ArticleManaged protest at Pacific Quay shames pro-indy campaign
The political campaigns for and against Scottish independence were supposed to have operated a ceasefire for the duration of Glasgow’s hosting of the 2014 Commonwealth Games.Yesterday, a police...
View ArticleNATO’s juvenile arms porn at Celtic Manor
Who really wants to join NATO? Yes, it might calm some of the nervier steeds but this week’s display of political analysis [not], warmongering, boys toys actually on the golf course – or was it some...
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Karl Hughes: What part would an Independent Scotland be able to play in the...
[Photograph added 13.55] The murder of David Haines in Northern Iraq yesterday brings terrorism by proxy into our lives in Scotland. My heart goes out to his family in Perth, just as my heartfelt...
View ArticleReport on Vale of Leven deaths from Clostridium Difficile to be published on...
It was made known yesterday that – five years after it was set up, three and a half years after it was supposed to report and seven years since the first death – Lord MacLean’s Inquiry is finally to...
View ArticleChilcott’s Iraq Inqury: just publish
The endless cost of the Iraq Inquiry. The enduring inability to publish. The continuing obfuscation of some in protecting reputations clearly unworthy of the effort.Such nonsense makes this country and...
View ArticleBlair trying to buy his way back into nationwide Labour favour
It was being reported yesterday that the Flying Dutchman of British politics, the ghost ship doomed never to be able to reach port, appears to be making another tack to port by the means he knows best...
View ArticleLabour candidate for Argyll & Bute challenged by SNP candidate on Blair funding
Across Britain, in what are now known to have been 106 Labour target seats, the party’s candidates are coming under pressure from opponents to return the pocket money of £1000 which the former UK Prime...
View ArticleScottish Leaders’ debate produces the epitome of political hypocrisy
Politicians have the oddest of sensibilities.In last night’s BBC Scottish Leaders’ debate there was a spat between Conservative Leader, Ruth Davidson and Labour Leader, Jim Murphy.While Murphy was...
View ArticleShock death of former Liberal Democrat Leader, Charles Kennedy
The political world is reeling from the sudden death this morning, 1st June 2015, of the 55 year old Charles Kennedy. MP for Ross, Cromarty and Skye [Ross, Skye and Lochaber from 2005] following his...
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