The South Clyde Estuary: An Illustrated Architectural Guide to Inverclyde and Renfrew (RIAS/Landmark Trust Series of Illustrated Architectural Guides to Scotland)
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Music director of the Scottish Arts Council The arts administrator Christie Duncan, who has died aged 80, will be remembered for the vision he displayed in his 25-year tenure as music director of the Scottish Arts Council. During that time, he put in place the infrastructure for a golden period of musical life in Scotland. He believed that people responded to excellence, and was determined that those...
Lancaster Unity (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Religious leaders fear militant Muslims will travel to Scotland to confront far-right racists planning an illegal march on the country's biggest mosque They have warned that Islamic hardliners will be out in force to take on the neo-Nazi thugs planning to march in Glasgow under the banner of the Scottish Defence League. We told last month how gangs of right-wingers, including senior BNP activists and...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
ST. ANDREWS, Scotland -- U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown and U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner clashed over potential taxes on bank transactions at a weekend meeting here of finance policy makers from the Group of 20 leading economies. At the gathering, G-20 finance ministers and central-bank chiefs discussed the fragility of the global economic recovery, agreed that stimulative efforts should...
LATICONOMICS (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
G-20 Splits on Tobin, Says Banks May Pay for Bailouts (Update2) By Simon Kennedy and Emma Ross-Thomas Nov. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Group of 20 governments signaled banks will be forced to cover a greater cost of future bailouts even as they split over whether that should be achieved by taxing financial trading. After spending more than $500 billion in taxpayer’s money to save banks from Royal Bank of...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 19 hours ago
China on Saturday said developed countries should focus on the quality of their own economic policy-making. Chinese Finance Minister Xie Xuren, speaking after finance ministers and central bank governors of the Group of 20 nations met in Scotland, said countries with global reserve currencies should work to maintain the currencies' value to avoid destabilizing the world economy. "All countries...
Wellbeing Newsline: Northern Ireland (Free subscription) | yesterday
Tackle disadvantage and boost life chance opportunities Edited by Nick Adams: A major programme designed to tackle disadvantage among young people and children in the West Belfast and Greater Shankill area of Northern Ireland, was recently unveiled by Deputy First Minister Martin McGuiness MP. The Integrated Services for Children and Young People Programme aims to increase the life chances and aspirations...
Japan Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
ST. ANDREWS, Scotland (Kyodo) Japan told a meeting of the Group of 20 major countries about its plan to set up at an early date a target to rebuild its finances, Senior Vice Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda said Saturday. During a press conference at the end of the two-day meeting of the G20 finance ministers and central bankers, Noda also said the Japanese economy is "picking up but lacks self-sustainability,...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | yesterday
Thanks to Gordon Brown this weekend's meeting of the G20 finance ministers and central bank governors in Scotland was not quite the damp squib that was expected.
Rising Hegemon (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Off to the boiler: The CIA relied on intelligence based on torture in prisons in Uzbekistan, a place where widespread torture practices include raping suspects with broken bottles and boiling them alive, says a former British ambassador to the central Asian country. Craig Murray, the rector of the University of Dundee in Scotland and until 2004 the UK's ambassador to Uzbekistan, said the CIA not only...
David Lindsay (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Opus Dei though the SNP candidate may be (heaven knows how that happened, the SNP is ferociously anti-Catholic and the compliment is returned with interest), the message is clear: the Glasgow North-East by-election impends, but the death of Al-Megrahi does not. Oh, and no one in favour of Scottish independence, never mind anyone who isn't, now has the slightest reason to vote for the SNP, which has...
The Washington Times (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
ST. ANDREWS, Scotland | The world's top financial officials Friday sought a blueprint for securing future global growth and worked to break a deadlock over who bears the cost of fighting climate change. Even as the world emerges hesitantly from recession, finance ministers and central bankers from the Group of 20 leading rich and developing countries meeting in Scotland are likely to agree it's too...
SUBROSA (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
David Doherty is the Green candidate for the Glasgow NE by-election. He was interviewed on Thursday night by Gordon Brewer. The interview was rather a rushed affair, but for a young man of 24, I think Mr Doherty did rather well. It was obvious he had done his revision and was nervous, but he didn't allow Gordon Brewer interruptions to put him off message. The one criticism I would give is that he...
LATICONOMICS (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Darling Seeks G-20 Plan to Deal With Asset Bubbles (Update2) By Gonzalo Vina and Emma Ross-Thomas Nov. 6 (Bloomberg) -- U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling said the Group of 20 nations should develop a way to tackle asset-price bubbles as the world’s leading economies recover. “We have got to make sure we don’t get ourselves into a situation where some pressure starts...
The Impolitic (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Wondering what the planetary alignments are these days with all the craziness out there. I expect you've already heard about the shooting spree in Orlando today. Not even going to write about that one except to note how curiously incurious the media and the other usual suspects are about this shooter's religion. But on to some fun links. Haven't watched this yet but everyone is buzzing about Jon Stewarts...
qwstnevrythg.com (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Daniel Tencer | Rawstory The CIA relied on intelligence based on torture in prisons in Uzbekistan, a place where widespread torture practices include raping suspects with broken bottles and boiling them alive, says a former British ambassador to the central Asian country. Craig Murray, the rector of the University of Dundee in Scotland and until 2004 [...]
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