An Explosion Is Not Needed For Success

Multiple aircraft cancellations, Glasgow Airport closed, delays to flights across the country, an over-reactive number of visible Police carrying Heckler and Koch MP5’s in day-glo vests, talk of extending periods of detention before charge from the current over-zealous 28 days, communities across the UK turning on Muslims with racist attacks and graffitti, vilification of foreign […]

More Chat, More Music, More Adrenalin; The Leith FM Wednesday Lunchtime Show

Update 2: Off air, I’ll do a little report when I get home. Short summary is it went pretty well.
Update: On air now - tune into the stream, and pop me a skype!
Yes it’s the weekly heads up to you all - those of you in Edinburgh can tune in to 98.8FM for the Wednesday […]

You Have The Freedom… to Watch What We Tell You

Yes there may be a lot of us who understand the whole problem of net neutrality, and the slow diminishing of human rights in the UK, and that complain about cpyright extension, and ‘friendly atmosphere’ interviews before you get a passport, but until this stuff jumps up and bites people, you’re not going to get […]

Reply to My Scottish Election Concerns From My MP

Back to the Scottish Election Mayhem. I’ve had a reply to my previous post (see here) which I forwarded to Mark Lazarowicz, my local MP at Westminster (and the Scottish Office at Westminster, ultimatly, is responsible for the Scottish Election. I quote it here in full, before commenting.
Dear Ewan
Thanks for your email. You are right […]

Northern Ireland Assembly Works - Scottish Parliament Doesn’t

Today the Northern Irish Assembly was opened with the Rev. Ian Paisley (Ulster Unionist) and Martin McGuinness (Sinn Fein) sharing power as First Minister and Deputy First Minister respectivly. A decade ago these two would metaphorically have happily ripped each other’s throats out if they thought they’d get away with it.

Today the Scottish Parliament convened […]

Scottish Nationals Win The Flawed Scottish Election

The final tally of seats have been declared in the Scottish Parliamentary Elections 2007, and the final result is that the SNP has a majority of one seat, but even with a coalition deal with the Liberal Democrats they won;t have a clear majority. Thinking about this, I’m quite pleased. Labour is out, and consensus […]

Yesterday’s Scottish Election Was A Disgrace - Disenfranchisment All Round

Quite simply, the election process in Scotland yesterday was a disgrace. I’m sitting here just after 9am on Friday morning, seven of the counts have been suspended, over 100,000 voters have not been able to make their intentions clear, and while it appears that the cause of this is arrogance and incompetence rather than malevolent […]

Nobody Is Disenfranchised in Tomorrow’s Scottish Election

Tomorrow is the election for the Scottish parliament tomorrow, so before I talk about the parties and my local candidates, can I just remind all my Scottish readers that no matter what you beleive, please cast a vote. Even if it’s to draw a big kitten over the paper (and those of you in England […]

Scottish Election: Liberal Mind Games in Edinburgh North and Leith

The elections to the Scottish Parliament are approaching, and I’m interested to see what election literatue is pushed through my door. So far I’ve recieved leaflets from The Green Party and this morning a letter from the Scottish Liberal Democrats candidate Mike Crockart arrived. It’s a masterly piece of political writing, with the lovely […]

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