It is with great sadness that I heard this evening that Bashir Ahmad MSP , the first Scots-Asian and Muslim member of the Scottish Parliament, has passed away. Only yesterday I was talking to him at a meeting with the SNP Glasgow MPSs. He looked as good..
Topics: Bashir Ahmad, Glasgow, MSP, Scottish Parliament, SNP

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Could you imagine for one minute if an SNP MSP said 'USE OF FOREIGN WORKERS SET TO RISE SIX-FOLD UNDER LABOUR'. We would be accused of being racist, protectionist, little Scotlanders with narrow minds about what the European Union means to our...
Topics: Duncan McNeil, foreign workers, Labour hypocrisy, public finance, skills shortage, xenophobia

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From Crash Gordon, Saviour of the Universe, to the basket case of developed countries coping with the deepest recession in decades. George Mathewson may have got it right a couple of weeks ago when he talked of depression , not recession. Now the...
Topics: Gordon Brown, International Monetary Fund, recession, Sir George Mathewson

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The depth of 'paid advocacy' within the House of Bores has been well explored by The Herald today, coming on the back of the Sunday Times' expose of four Labour peers taking 'cash for amendments' . Every single party, bar the SNP, has.
Topics: cash for amendments, House of Lords, Lord George Foulkes

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Thanks to AyeWeCan for this tribute to the Bard on his 250th birthday:
Topics: Robert Burns Scotland bard poet birthday anniversary

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