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- Andrew Wilson: Need to let go of Nurse London’s hand
Scotsman - Politics (Today) - IF YOU haven’t read the poem Jim by Hilaire Belloc I recommend that you give it a try.... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Drumlanrig: Hassan | Yousaf | Stevenson
Scotsman - Politics (Today) - IT appears that degree snobbery is a widespread phenomenon – even affecting Iranian presidential candidates.... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Woolwich murder: The political aftershock
Politics.co.uk (Today) - The British public is responding to last week's politically motivated murder in Woolwich by demanding tougher laws to curb incitement to terrorism.... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Holyrood in new air passenger duty call
Scotsman - Politics (Today) - THE Scottish Government has issued a fresh demand for air passenger duty to be devolved to Scotland after bosses at Flybe said the “penalistic and ludicrous” charge was a key reason for it selling off... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- The NHS: don't pick on GPs, Mr Hunt. Develop a vision | Observer editorial
Guardian Comment is Free (Politics) (Today) - Jeremy Hunt should have engaged politically with the problemsAneurin Bevan, the architect of the National Health Service, would have been alarmed at the escalating blame game played out between the secretary of state for health... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Cameron To Crack Down On Preachers Of Hate
Sky News Politics (Today) - A taskforce of senior politicians including Nick Clegg and Theresa May will tackle the radicalisation that can lead to violence.... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Why should Apple have access to consumers if it refuses to pay its fair share of taxes?
Guardian Comment is Free (Politics) (Today) - Countries are competing to provide the biggest tax breaks, the cheapest labour and the easiest regulation to attract the likes of Google, Apple and Amazon, to the disadvantage of their own citizens. But there is... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- If there's any justice, prisoners must get the vote | Kevin McKenna
Guardian Comment is Free (Politics) (Today) - Nationalists who would deny prisoners a vote in the independence referendum are being craven and dishonestThe social responsibility contract that many leftwing unionists would like to conclude with the Scottish nationalists is as yet unwritten.... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Scottish independence ‘must cover risk to savers’
Scotsman - Politics (Today) - THE head of the UK’s most influential financial compensation body warned last night that thousands of bank account deposits would be at risk in an independent Scotland unless a new government set up its own... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- MSPs come clean after breaking lobbyist rules
Scotsman - Politics (Today) - MOST cross-party groups at the Scottish Parliament have now revealed whether or not they are receiving backing from companies and pressure groups trying to lobby MSPs, after it emerged they had broken strict rules.... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
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- Tory infighting reaches north of the border
NewsNetScotland (Today) - By a Newsnet reporter The Tories have 'nothing positive to offer Scotland', the SNP has said, as Tory infighting reaches north of the border, echoing the infighting which blights the party in the House of... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- 1970s deja vu as Westminster oil figures are questioned
NewsNetScotland (Today) - By a Newsnet reporter The SNP have raised the question of whether the Westminster is again deliberately misleading the Scottish public as it did during the 1970s, as the latest Westminster forecasts for Scottish oil... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- British police arrest three over soldier's killing
Reuters UK News (Today) - LONDON (Reuters) - British counter-terrorism police on Saturday arrested three people suspected of involvement in the killing of a soldier hacked to death in a London street by two men shouting Islamist slogans.Related StoriesPolice close... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News› - New In Last 40 Minutes
- Mark Carney: Canada's rock-star banker faces four bars to success
Politics + Comment (Today) - The polished governor will inherit unprecedented circumstances in which success will be almost as hard to manage as failureFew decisions in British economic policymaking have been so acclaimed in recent years as George Osborne's appointment... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Heckled but happy: the graceful star of gay marriage debate
The Guardian - Politics (Today) - Margot James endured a rough time as fellow MPs rebelled in parliament last week. But she bears no grudgesIf a career in diplomacy had attracted Margot James, it would no doubt have been a successful... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Generations are divided on feelings about Muslims after London attack | Matthew Goodwin
Politics + Comment (Today) - YouGov poll after Woolwich killing shows no evidence of a sharp increase in prejudice, and more positivity among the youngEvents such as the brutal murder of Drummer Lee Rigby can often act as lightning rods... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- If there's any justice, prisoners must get the vote | Kevin McKenna
The Guardian - Politics (Today) - Nationalists who would deny prisoners a vote in the independence referendum are being craven and dishonestThe social responsibility contract that many leftwing unionists would like to conclude with the Scottish nationalists is as yet unwritten.... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- The NHS: don't pick on GPs, Mr Hunt. Develop a vision | Observer editorial
The Guardian - Politics (Today) - Jeremy Hunt should have engaged politically with the problemsAneurin Bevan, the architect of the National Health Service, would have been alarmed at the escalating blame game played out between the secretary of state for health... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Mark Carney: Canada's rock-star banker faces four bars to success
The Guardian - Politics (Today) - The polished governor will inherit unprecedented circumstances in which success will be almost as hard to manage as failureFew decisions in British economic policymaking have been so acclaimed in recent years as George Osborne's appointment... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Extremism taskforce after Woolwich
BBC News - Politics (Today) - A top level taskforce is to be set up in the wake of the killing of a soldier in Woolwich to "look again" at the government's strategy for dealing with radicalisation and extremism.... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Space, the fiscal frontier: government looks to the skies for rebalancing
The Guardian - Politics (Today) - The UK's space industry is low-key, but a major player in satellite manufacturing – and some companies export 95% of their outputWhen Major Timothy Peake boards a Russian Soyuz rocket in late 2015 to become... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Why should Apple have access to consumers if it refuses to pay its fair share of taxes?
Politics + Comment (Today) - Countries are competing to provide the biggest tax breaks, the cheapest labour and the easiest regulation to attract the likes of Google, Apple and Amazon, to the disadvantage of their own citizens. But there is... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
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- Taking The Mickey
David Lindsay (Today) - Why does no one listen to what Michael Gove is telling them? He obviously missed the passage in Leo Strauss about the importance of lying to the common herd, so he is utterly honest.None of... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
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David Lindsay (Today) - It comes as no surprise that UKIP has lined up with Labour and the Lib Dems, backed less officially but no less effectively by Greens and Independents, in order to deprive the Conservatives of the... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Hero, Not Zero
David Lindsay (Today) - According to Kevin Maguire in the New Statesman, Andy Burnham, scourge of the dismantlement of the NHS in England, is also sticking to his guns that Labour must outlaw zero hours contracts.The spirit of John... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›


