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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
Continue readingI will be giving Public Lectures on the following dates Tower Mill, HawickMonday 26 March at 7.30pm Tickets on the door £5 Greyfriars Kirk, Dumfries (to be confirmed)Tuesday 27 March evening
Continue readingAmong 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
Continue readingDAY 2 Donald Trump is still a GlobalScot (see my post of yesterday). Early days though. A motion lodged in Parliament [link broken March 2026] today by Patrick Harvie seeking support for revoking Trump’s membership now has three signatories. And
Continue readingAlex 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
Continue readingWestwater 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
Continue readingUPDATE 1381 days later 9 December 2015 The Scottish Government has withdrawn Donald Trump’s role as a GlobalScot in response to remarks he made that Muslims should be prohibited from entering the UK.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 Scotland
Continue readingThe 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.
Continue readingFor those who have been following the debate about the future administration of the Crown Estate in Scotland will be aware that the Scotland Bill contained two proposed reforms so inconsequential as to be meaningless. The first was that there
Continue readingI will be giving a public lecture in Aberdeen on Thursday 1 March 2012. All welcome. Download LARGE poster here 6.2Mb)
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