A Pint of Unionist Lite (Free subscription) | yesterday
A salutary lesson for all of us involved in political blogging I suppose:A UNIVERSITY has launched an inquiry into the behaviour of one of its lecturers after he used his pro-nationalist blog to mount a vicious attack on the Scottish Secretary, Jim Murphy.Robert Gordon University is investigating the online activities of Bruce Newlands, a lecturer in construction technology at the Aberdeen
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | yesterday
NEW regulations on whisky will help protect one of Scotland's "most cherished" products, Scottish Secretary Jim Murphy said yesterday.
Jess The Dog (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Apparently, blogger Wardog has packed up his soap-box after journalists have been in contact with his employer. This has been covered by Scunnert Nation and The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University . Subrosa has also mentioned it as covered by Bill Cameron . One of the apparent emails is below at the end of this post...assuming it is not a Labour hoax. The questions do seem somewhat 'loaded'....
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
The UK's constitutional jigsaw still needs to be completed, and politics looks set to become increasingly territorial It has probably escaped the attention of all but the most assiduous Guardian reader, but this week marked an explosion of activity on constitutional reform, which is going to continue for the next few weeks. The Queen's speech saw the UK government announce it would "take forward"...
Yapping Yousuf (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Within the next few days Jim Murphy, (Scotland's man in the cabinet in case you forgot!) will publish a white paper implementing the proposals for the Calman Commission, probably to be enacted after the next General Election. The big one is on taxation. If the Telegraph is to be believed the proposals for income tax will be implemented. This means that income tax set in the Budget at Westminster will...
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
SCOTTISH Secretary Jim Murphy has called on the Scottish Government to end its "boycott" of plans to devolve more powers to Holyrood.
The Daily Record (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
GORDON BROWN has given his backing to radical plans to let the Scottish parliament raise part of the money they spend.
rssblogstory (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
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Labour: the future for Bo'ness and Blackness (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
LABOUR’S Scottish Secretary, Jim Murphy MP, talks about the Queen’s Speech – and a new video which reminds people of Labour’s legacy. He says: “Last week’s vote in Glasgow shows that Labour teamwork wins elections. When we stand up for our values, people choose Labour. “For most of the last 100 years Labour has been without [...]
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Plans to transfer a swathe of new taxraising powers to Scottish ministers are to be unveiled within the next fortnight the Government has confirmed.
SUBROSA (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
There was a scarcity of labour MPs on the green benches when Black Rod presented his traditional request at the State Opening of Parliament this morning. As the BBC commentator said some were outside the chamber because they wanted to be in the front of the procession, but isn't it traditional that all MPs are 'present in the Chamber' for this event? It would appear now only are labour MPs and their...
SUBROSA (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
'I never thought I'd live to see the day', how often do we say that? Early on Thursday morning, because I was completely weary watching the Jim Murphy Show on the BBC, I decided to browse the papers for some light-hearted relief. Imagine my surprise when, in the Scotland section of the Times, a header ' We wish you a merry Christmas (but not in Dundee )'. Yes, I did have to read it twice. Dundee,...
Lewis' Labour (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Just 24 Hours ago I was going on my last run in Springburn seeing if all our voters had been out and voted. There was a feeling of uncertainty, a feeling of excitement and also a feeling of pride that my friends and I were taking part in something really important. It was of course early this morning when we found that Willie Bain had been elected the new MP, there had been a false alarm but the second...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Party increases share of vote to 60%, pushing Scottish National party into distant second place Ministers today hailed Labour's win in the Glasgow North East byelection as evidence that the party could defy poor UK-wide poll ratings and pull off a fourth consecutive election victory. Labour increased its share of the vote to 60%, pushing a deeply demoralised Scottish National party into a distant...
The Big Dollop (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
. The good people of Springburn in Glasgow went to the polls yesterday to elect an MP in a by-election for the Glasgow North East constituency brokered by the resignation of the then speaker of the House of Commons – Michael Martin. The by election was as it turned out, a forgone conclusion when the labour candidate Willie Bain was elected with what on paper would seem to indicate a handsome...
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