Dumfries Public Lecture
I will be giving a public lecture hosted by Loreburn Community Council in Dumfries on Tuesday 27 March 2012 at 7pm in Grefriars Church. All welcome. Download a LARGE poster here (5.94Mb pdf)
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I will be giving a public lecture in Hawick on Monday 26 March 2012 at 7.30pm. All welcome. Download a LARGE poster here (5.94Mb pdf).
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Selling the King’s Park, Stirling for £1,000,000
Why on earth is an ancient Scottish Royal Park about to be flogged off for a million quid? King’s Park in Stirling dates back to the 12th century and is a landscape of inestimable historic and cultural importance. If you
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I will be giving Public Lectures on the following dates Tower Mill, Hawick Monday 26 March at 7.30pm Tickets on the door £5 Greyfriars Kirk, Dumfries (to be confirmed) Tuesday 27 March evening
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Among my emails this morning was one claiming that statements I have made on my blogs on the GlobalScot programme are “inaccurate and libelous” and that “you are now on notice”. For the record, libel is not a civil wrong
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DAY 2 Donald Trump is still a GlobalScot (see my post of yesterday). Early days though. A motion lodged in Parliament today by Patrick Harvie seeking support for revoking Trump’s membership now has three signatories. And the past 24 hours
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Alex Salmond met Rupert Murdoch today for lunch. They talked about future investment in Scotland. I am prepared to give Mr Salmond the benefit of the doubt in terms of the wisdom of aligning himself with Mr Murdoch and I
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Westwater plantation in Dumfries-shire – owned by a landowner in Surrey and granted over £1 million in Scottish forestry grants. Last year I was commissioned by the Forest Policy Group to undertake research into who owns Scotland’s forests. The report
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UPDATE 1381 days later 9 December 2015 The Scottish Government has withdrawn Donald Trump’s role as a GlobalScot in response to remarks he made that Muslims should be prohibited from entering the UK. —————————————————————————————————————- Donald Trump Jr. arrives in
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The latest tantrums of Donald trump over the proposal to site wind turbines off the Aberdeenshire coast received a lot of publicity in the news this last week. Mike Small reflects on some of this in the Guardian yesterday.
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