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It is quite unprecedented and totally out of order for the Head of the FBI, Mr Robert Mueller to attack Scottish Ministers over the release of the Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi and to claim that their action
Continue readingTomorrow marks 10 years of the Scottish Parliament. Opinion varies as to its effectiveness but at least it is modern, open, transparent and accountable. Compare this to the kind of rubbish that passes for Parliamentary process in Westminster. Check out
Continue readingFollowing my post yesterday, it is great to see Heather Brooke on the cover of the Guardian’s G2 supplement today. Her story is a fascinating (but all too brief) account of the efforts she had to go to to secure
Continue readingMuch of what has been exposed on the topic of MPs’ expenses is trivial. What is not trivial is the extent to which MPs have time and time again claimed in their defence that everything that they did was within
Continue readingAmidst all the justifiable anger over the revelations of MPs’ expenses it is worth remembering that we owe our knowledge of these issues not to the Daily Telegraph, not to the person who leaked them and certainly not to the
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