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Ideas of Civilisation: A Savings Grace
A Savings Grace. Well that was simple enough. Finance Secretary John Swinney has announced that the Scottish Government have found £600 million of ...
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Ideas of Civilisation: Birthday wishes
Birthday wishes. I woke up last night and suddenly had a thought: I'm sure it's one year .... Worth a look if you're at all interested in Scottish politics" ...
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Ideas of Civilisation: Should politicians have to contact voters?
However, I think the public's complaint isn't so much about that, but that if politicians pro-actively try to contact them during election campaings then ...
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Ideas of Civilisation: Should politicians have to contact voters?
However, I think the public's complaint isn't so much about that, but that if politicians pro-actively try to contact them during election campaings then ...
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Ideas of Civilisation: Birthday wishes
"We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilisation. ... Birthday wishes. I woke up last night and suddenly had a thought: I'm sure it's one year since I ...
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Ideas of Civilisation: Unbreakable China?
Unbreakable China? The big issue of the past few days has obviously been the Olympic torch and the general matter of the China Olympics. ...
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Ideas of Civilisation: Will benefit reform work?
Will benefit reform work? Much fury has unsurprisingly attached itself to the UK government’s plans for welfare reform, which will do more to compel ...
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Ideas of Civilisation: How easy is it to answer questions?
There's no question that at times ministers will not provide the answer the opposition wish they would (a point valid at Westminster as much as Holyrood); ...
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Ideas of Civilisation: Public judgement
Public judgement. Well, it's fair to say that Gordon Brown hasn't had the best of weeks. I thought there was a very clever comment on another blog (the ...
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Ideas of Civilisation: Stands Scotland's smaller parties where ...
A notable aspect of the 1999 Parliament was the fact that there was a Green MSP, independent MSP and, most importantly, a charismatic figure by the name of ...
