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• Action Man - Tavish Scott

  
  SUBROSA — Authority: 555
  Tavish Scott (pictured), the Scottish Libdem leader, is threatening court action to ensure the planned broadcast of the election debates are shown in Scotland. The SNP is considering legal moves to silence the broadcasts north of the Border and Mr Scott obviously thinks thats wrong. Or perhaps his boss in London ...
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• Britblog Roundup 252, and Parish Notices

  
  The Wardman Wire — Authority: 470
  Autumnus Horribilis Regulars will note that I have been somewhat absent recently, and last week even missed doing my allocated Britblog Roundup for the first time ever. Ive been in hospital on 3 separate occasions in the last couple of months at short ("Get thee to Casualty. Now!") notice, and lost something like ...
  2 days ago

• Comment: Alex Salmond and the televised debate row

  
  Net News Daily — Authority: 128
  Alex Salmond, SNP Leader (Scottish Government/Flickr) I will confess, I don’t like the SNP or Alex Salmond. Attempting to destroy Scotland by Independence leads me to not trust him or his party and again, he has proven why I don’t trust him. When we finally move forward and get televised debates, he starts ...
  3 days ago

• Televised election debates threatened by legal action

  
  Net News Daily — Authority: 128
  The Scottish National Party and Plaid Cymru, the nationalist parties of Scotland and Wales, are threatening legal action over the televised debates between the three main UK political party leaders next year. The two parties are calling their exclusion “undemocratic”. After the television debates were confirmed ...
  3 days ago

• Hot music, cooling weather, warming climate

  
  Scottish Roundup — Authority: 106
  Hello, and welcome to this week’s roundup. It’s the last one of the year. As normal, we are taking the week between Christmas and new year off. However, stay tuned for a special announcement some time next week! In the meantime, though, let’s get on with this week’s roundup. The year in music We are sidling ...
  5 days ago

• Here Comes The Cold

  
  Freedom From The Mundane — Authority: 120
  Image: Laszlo Ilyes Last night was most relaxing. Laura and I ordered our pizzas (1 Hot and Spicy and 1 Chicken Supreme) and sat back to watch The Polar Express , always an enjoyable film. It takes me back to when I was a kid and had all that excitement in me—some would say still do because I’m just a big ...
  1 week ago

• Lib Dems would opt for pact with Labour

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  John Harris ( A Lib-Lab pact: deep down they know it makes sense , 16 December) makes serious points about the prospects of co-operation between the Labour party and the Liberal Democrats following an election. Constitutionally Gordon Brown will remain prime minister until he finds himself unable to form a government. ...
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• All They Want for Christmas is Votes

  
  LibDemBlogs — Authority: 174
  Earlier in the month Jeff said that the "storm over Alex Salmonds choice of Christmas card really quite remarkable and not a little bit depressing." Here is the card that he is talking about from the Scottish First Minister. He went on the say: "The accusation that Salmond has politicised Christmas is part of a ...
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• Alex Salmonds whisky warning to world leaders in Copenhagen

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Scottish first minister pledges bottle of 42% whisky to leaders, but it will be watered down if they dilute emissions targets Hard-pressed UN climate change negotiators have been running on coffee during their late-night sessions in Copenhagen this week, but the first minister of Scotland, Alex Salmond offered a ...
  1 week ago

• Alex Salmond pretends to play with the big boys in Copenhagen as patients go untreated at home

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 968
  As Alex Salmond spews hot air in Copenhagen on sexy-sounding policies for which he has no responsibility, he ignores the humdrum realities of his office, writes Alan Cochrane.
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• (Scottish 1st Minister) Alex Salmonds nuclear opposition threatens climate change targets

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Alex Salmond’s opposition to nuclear power could sabotage targets to cut Scotland’s greenhouse gases by half, a report prepared for SNP ministers has suggested. Released ahead of the First Minister’s visit this week to the Copenhagen climate change summit, the study warned carbon dioxide emissions increased by ...
  1 week ago

• Holyroods festive peace is set to shatter in a scrappy new election year

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 968
  Politics will drop a gear in the next few days, as the two-week festive recess is about to begin, but this lull is certain to be followed by some of the most frantic, and probably dirtiest, campaigning this country has ever seen, writes Alan Cochrane.
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• Renewable energy: capacity and technology is there but…

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 443
  … where is the infrastructure - the investment in the infrastructure?Without this, the power of our offshore wind and tidal energy cannot be harnessed and distributed.We’re looking at the familiar post-Victorian UK inability to invest in the future. We’ve become habituated to being a nation of ...
  1 week ago

• Season of Goodwill? Hah!

  
  Scottish Roundup — Authority: 106
  Hi folks! You’d think we were winding down for Christmas, but despite the arrival of the Doctor Who-themed Christmas idents on BBC1, there are still twelve days, a series of dull, uncomfortable office parties and the traditional scrum in front of the cosmetics counter at Boots to go. The upshot of this is that the ...
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• Saltire and Satire

  
  The Ben Lomond Free Press — Authority: 134
  This is the Christmas card sent out by Scotland’s First Minister Alex Salmond. It is from a painting by respected Scots artist Gerard Burns. It shows a young lass in thoughtful pose holding a Scots flag. You’d wonder what there is not to like about it. I think it is quite stunning. What a stushie it has created! ...
  2 weeks ago

• Argyll charity one of four to benefit from First Minister’s Christmas card

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 443
  First Minister, Alex Salmond, has established the practice of asking one of his favourite artists each year to create and donate an artwork for his official Christmas card, which will be auctioned to benefit Scottish charities.This year, Mary’s Meals, based in Dalmally, is one of the four selected charities to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Body bag comments expose SNP hypocrisy towards the Army

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 968
  MSPs response to rise in recruitment levels rise is likely to undo efforts made to build good relations, writes Alan Cochrane.
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• Culture: SNP make it roost for failed minister, Labour see it as ‘non job’

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 443
  A cry of despair from our Folk & Traditional Music Editor. All the initial headlines on the SNP cabinet reshuffle focus on Fiona Hyslop’s failure at Education and Mike Russell’s promotion to Education.‘Plot that brought down Hyslop, the minister who had lost the plot’‘Policy failures sealed Hyslop’s ...
  2 weeks ago

• Filled with Christmas cheer? Well, this will change your mind…

  
  And another thing... — Authority: 583
  SCOTLAND’S First Minister loves this time of year. You can tell: no sooner has December arrived than Alex is taking every opportunity to teach us the real meaning of Christmas – namely that there is no “Season of good will” while we toil under the yoke of the hated English! And just in case you feel the urge ...
  2 weeks ago

• Salmond sucks life out of Scottish Christmas

  
  Transforming Grace — Authority: 416
  The poor Scots. Things just go from bad to worse for the folk in my homeland. Alex Salmond, first minister of the Scottish Assembly, has sucked the life and joy out of Christmas by commissioning this miserable effort of a secular seasonal greeting card: Have a very merry Christmas Scotland! I hope your season ...
  2 weeks ago

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