Just an interesting titbit for today. Via Holyrood Magazine , I notice that it has occurred to our parliamentarians that they are missing a trick. Some rationalising namer of parts decided simply to name Holyrood’s Committee Rooms by number, one to six. Couldn’t we give them more interesting names, suggests the SNP’s gopherish Kenny Gibson? After all, most institutions christen their...
The latest batch of MSP expenses are out and there are two names that stand out John Lamont MSP and Jim Hume MSP, both of which have spent in excess of £20,000 in the last twelve months on postage and office costs. Firstly, let us tackle the issue of dual mandate, something the Conservative leader in Scotland has long banged her drum about, however it appears that her MSPs aren't following the...
Jim Hume, Liberal Democrat MSP for the South of Scotland, has today commented on official figures showing that the number of winter deaths across Scotland increased to 3,510 last year.
I'm sure very few people that follow Scottish Politics will have any doubts over Jim Hume's gender but I'm grateful that the Scottish Lib Dem website's profile of Mr. Hume has stated that he is indeed a man. Born in Peebles and raised in Selkirkshire, Jim Hume is a born and bred man from the South of Scotland Phew, glad that one has been cleared up.
Graveyards in Edinburgh which house the remains of some of Scotland’s greatest historical figures, from Adam Smith to David Hume, are in urgent need of a makeover, according to a charity dedicated to preserving historic monuments.
Jim Hume, Liberal Democrat MSP for the South of Scotland, is marking alcohol awareness week by calling on ministers and policy makers to encourage more responsible alcohol marketing to help bring about the culture change needed to tackle Scotland's damaging relationship with alcohol.
Jim Hume, Liberal Democrat MSP for the South of Scotland, has spoken out on the importance of giving blood. He made his comments during a Scottish Parliament debate on the work of the Scottish Blood Transfusion Service.
"Rules regulating property are absolutely necessary for the well-being of mankind. But remove the interests of society, and ownership rights would be reduced to forms of superstition." David Hume from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: On Justice So a date has been set for Aberdeenshire Council to decide on Donald's Trump to use Compulsory Purchase Orders for his own commercial gain,...
Jim Hume MSP, Liberal Democrat MSP for the South of Scotland, is encouraging people to nominate their favourite rural business or individual effort for a Local Hero Award in East Lothian.
David Hume - giant of the Enlightenment Friday was the 300th anniversary of the birth of Samuel Johnson. He of the famous dictionary and the subject of the equally famous biography by Scot James Boswell. Last week the Grumpy SD visited Dr Johnson’s House in Gough Square, just off Fleet Street in London. One of my favourite book’s is Boswell’s ‘Life of Johnson’ and it was...
It's odd that Jonathan Meades' Off-Kilter series, three one-hour films about Scotland currently playing on BBC4 in the UK, doesn't make mention of Samuel Johnson's Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland , his 1775 account of a 1773 exploration of Scotland in the company of James Boswell. Or maybe it does mention it, and I just missed the reference? Anyway, this week the parallel became even more...
The following is a list of MSPs with websites and a link to their site (as well as a list of those without websites/ those who have websites that haven't been updated for a year or the link is "under construction"). Hope it is useful. Let me know if I've missed any, or if you discover any more Twitterers... they're often interesting... They're also in the sidebar on the far-right of the page....
Those watching the events of the last few days, in which a principled, upright and devout lawyer stood up to his community to do the right thing, might think they were watching a Scottish version of To Kill A Mockingbird , or even, a play by Ibsen . More Ibsen than Lee , methinks, if only because such moral decisions always have deeper roots and more ambiguous, even tragic results, than intended. It...
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This is the transcript of the interview that was conducted by CNN’s Wolf Blitzer after Scottish Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill released the murderer Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi yesterday. The video was deemed “too controversial” and was never released. But thanks to the efforts of famed hacker trax8er (a long-time reader of this blog, apparently) we have it. Blitzer Thank...
Meticulous editor and historian of science When, in 1991, 12 Nobel laureates in economics opened Morals, Motives and Markets, an exhibition on the Enlightenment theorist Adam Smith at the then Royal Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh, they pronounced themselves stunned to have learned more about his context and underlying philosophical views in two hours than they would have ever guessed. This was the...
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