Letter from Westminster
Many and varied are the things that you get asked to do when you are a parliamentarian. Over the last nine years I have written
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Letter from Westminster
So Lerwick’s Up-Helly-A’ has been and gone for another year. Congratulations to Guizer Jarl Rae Simpson and his family and squad on a first rate
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Politics at Westminster has been a rather febrile business since the New Year but all the political sound and fury was put into some sort
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And they are off! No sooner were the last crumbs of shortbread brushed into the bin than the television news programmes were proclaiming the first
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There was a finance statement delivered this week and it was difficult not to feel some sympathy and admiration for the man delivering. It takes
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I wonder how many trees have been sacrificed over the years in the ongoing debate over Scotland’s constitutional future.
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Remembrance Sunday this year was a particularly sombre affair as it started with news of further casualties in Afghanistan.
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Last Thursday night the nation was introduced to a new political hero on the BBC’s Question Time.
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The Sunday papers this week were predicting a series of embarrassing exposures for MPs as they returned to Westminster on Monday.
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The party conference season is upon us again. That used to be a cue for a jolly week at some seaside resort talking politics, catching
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In the normal course of things I do not regard it as part of my job to involve myself in the workings of the council.
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The job of the Secretary of State for Scotland is not what it used to be. Since devolution the job has largely withered on the
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The job of the Secretary of State for Scotland is not what it used to be. Since devolution the job has largely withered on the
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Let me start this column with a welcome to Master Archie Scott who entered the world last weekend and to congratulate Tavish and Kirsten on
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