Letter from Westminster 24.12.08
THE HOOPER Review of postal delivery market which was published last week did not make pleasant reading. The Royal Mail (the delivery network as opposed…
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Letter from Westminster 12.12.08
I HAVE a confession to make. Many years ago, while a trainee solicitor working at the Crown Office in Edinburgh, I “leaked” to Jim Wallace…
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THE LIFE of a member of parliament may be many things but no-one could ever suggest that it lacks variety. That thought came to me…
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FROM time to time my mailbag produces invitations to embassy parties. Never having been a great lover of Ferrero Rocher most of these get politely…
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ONE of the things that frequently leaves me speechless is the people that I meet in the course of my work as an MP who…
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THERE is no knowing what the media will ever find to be interesting. In recent weeks my time has been taken up dealing with a…
READ FULL STORYLetter from Westminster 10.10.08
A FEW days spent with our Norwegian cousins is always a good opportunity to get a different political perspective from that in London or Edinburgh….
READ FULL STORYLetter from Westminster 26.09.08
“IT’S the economy, stupid.” That was the expression, first coined by an aide to Bill Clinton, that came to sum up the debate in the…
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I CAN’T pretend to understand what the Large Hadron Collider, the £5billion machine buried deep beneath the Swiss French border, is all about but it…
READ FULL STORYLetter from Westminster 29.08.08
THOSE who know me might be slightly surprised to hear of me striding on to the hallowed turf at Murrayfield, the home of Scottish rugby….
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LAST week was in Orkney was show week so the week was a gentle progress from Shapinsay to St Margaret’s Hope to Dounby and finally…
READ FULL STORYLetter from Westminster 18.07.08
AS MP for Orkney and Shetland I have many illustrious predecessors. Jim Wallace and Jo Grimond are perhaps among the best known to the current…
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I DO not believe that the constituency of Henley would ever feature high among the seats expected to be won by the Labour Party, but…
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A NUMBER of commentators have described last week at Westminster as a “roller coaster week”. They are right in as much as it had its…
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