Letter from Westminster
I am not sure that I would yet make the claim that the Scottish Parliament election campaign has set the heather ablaze but there is
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Letter from Westminster
Sad news reached me last week from the other side of the Atlantic when I learned of the death of my friend Virginia Davis.
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Knocking on doors for the Scottish election, the subject of the coalition at Westminster is one which crops up quite a bit.
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I am by nature an optimist. I tend to believe that if the will exists then all things are possible. Even I, however, am forced
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Wednesday last week was budget day. The budget is no longer the jewel in the parliamentary calendar that it used to be but it is
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There is a thing called chaos theory which says that everything is interconnected and that nothing happens in isolation.
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Governments get blamed for things. It is what happens and whether it is being blamed for the quality of television programmes, the weather or the
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Politics can sometimes be a slow burner. Three and a half years ago the Liberal Democrats started to call for a review of the powers
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Betrayal seems to be one of the most over used words in Scottish politics at the moment and it was getting plenty of overtime in
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I hope that for you and your family 2011 will be a good year. I am in no doubt, however, that for many people in
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Invitations to the Althing do not come my way very often. Before last weekend the last time that I had spoken at an Althing debate
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The members’ tea room in the House of Commons has been buzzing this week in a way that I have not seen for some time.
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Earlier this summer the Chancellor brought forward his emergency budget and outlined the scale of the cuts that were having to be made to public
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Over the years party conferences have become something to be endured rather than enjoyed, so it was somewhat unusual to find myself looking forward to
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