Michael Forbes Spirit of Scotland Top Scot 2012
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Continue readingEdinburgh Waterfront in the British Virgin Islands
The Guardian are running a series of investigative articles on the use of offshore tax havens to acquire land & property in London. It was timely, therefore to see Steven Vaas’s article in the Herald on Monday which revealed that
Continue readingHow much has Donald Trump invested?
I am very grateful to Ross McConell for helping me to interpret Trump Golf Club Scotland’s accounts. (This post was originally published on 28 Feb 2012 and has been updated to include the 2011 Accounts) Many claims have been made
Continue readingCampaign for REAL Local Government 2
(Following my tweets today – if you simply want the source for the statistics and brief descriptions of the functions of the various tiers, download and read Local and regional Government Structures in Europe. Structures and Competences published by the Council of European
Continue reading..those who have interests to protect..
Scottish Land & Estates members survey. The Scottish Government’s Land Reform Review Group was established in July 2012 and twelve advisers were appointed in October. It has issued a call for evidence to be submitted to it by 11
Continue readingA lamentable day for Scottish democracy
The Scottish Parliament has had its high points and its low points but the past couple of days has witnessed as woeful a low as I can remember. Scotland’s mainstream political parties appear to value petty point-scoring about who said
Continue readingBBC reporting on Gaza 2
Today’s contrasting images come on the day that over 30 Palestinians died in Gaza. They included the Dallo family in Jabalia refugee camp – that’s right a refugee camp – who lost 11 members when their house was attacked by Israeli rockets
Continue readingBBC reporting on Gaza 1
The BBC website published a slideshow of images from the current conflict in Gaza. Two of them showed damage caused by Palestinian rockets. None showed the impact of Israeli missiles but after hunting around the BBC website I managed to
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Trump endorses You’ve Been trumped
Earlier this week Donald trump was calling for a revolution in the USA. His series of twitter rants are dissected here by the Guardian. Today, his attention turned to Anthony Baxter, the Director of the globally acclaimed You’ve Been Trumped
Continue readingTom Johnston born 2 November 1881
I have an original copy of Tom Johnston‘s Our Scots Noble Families from 1909. It is a treasure. It was reprinted by Argyll Publishing in 1999. Here, reprinted, is the opening chapter entitled A General Indictment. Read it and remember
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