25 October 2014

The beautiful game

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With a front line of Messy, Nae Mair and Jaws , how can Barcelona lose?

A house divided will not stand

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Currently, the Labour Party has 40 Scottish MPs at Westminster.  How many will it have after next May?  Fewer, I guess.  And this will cert...
24 October 2014

Parliamentary Question of the day

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From here : Kevin Brennan  (Cardiff West) (Lab):  A few days before her appointment, the rail Minister wrote to her predecessor about pro...
23 October 2014

Music of the week

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Nonpareil:
22 October 2014

You can take the girl out of Morningside ...

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Ms Fiona Woolf CBE, Lord Mayor of London, claims that she is not a member of the establishment . Aye well.  Good luck with that, lass. ...
21 October 2014

Painting oneself into a corner

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The Prime Minister is fashioning a stick with which to beat himself : Seen from Brussels, Cameron’s first problem is that no one knows wha...
20 October 2014

Doesn't sound like fun

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Sex and the antiarch : The first act of copulation has been traced back to ancient animals that were endowed with such cumbersome sexual o...
17 October 2014

Rewards and punishment

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CityAM   reports : BANKERS need bonuses to create incentives to behave well, and the EU’s efforts to stamp them out are harming this goal,...
16 October 2014

What to do about drones?

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Much soul-searching on the part of the football authorities: The abandonment of Tuesday’s Serbia v Albania match after a drone carr...

Tanking

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Yikes!  This is getting serious: the FTSE 100 is falling like a stone.  

Music of the week

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Heartrending:
15 October 2014

Strategic mistake?

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Aye, well.   It may please the Tories' core support, but it is not likely to attract the uncommitted: David Cameron said he would lik...
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12 October 2014

A reason to regret the No vote in the indyref

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Horror of horrors.  From the Red Box ( here ): Survation  pops up  with a national survey showing them [UKIP] on 25 per cent, just six poi...
10 October 2014

Quote of the day

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Simon Jenkins ( here ): I cannot recall a conflict so swamped by incoherence as the one in northern Iraq. The awfulness of Isis has given ...

Going through the motions?

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Is this really for the protection of the public?  Or is it just to make them feel safer? Travellers arriving at Heathrow and Gatwick from...
09 October 2014

Dog's dinner

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I have been meaning to comment upon the latest developments at Rangers FC: Ashley has parked his tanks on the front lawns at Ibrox where...
05 October 2014

Music of the week

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Classic:

The BBC's drive to the bottom

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From The Observer  ( here ): There's one problem with  Evan Davis's  Newsnight  that the new Paxo Nice can't do anything about...
03 October 2014

Speech of the week

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Warren and me

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We all make mistakes : Renowned US investor Warren Buffett has said he made a “huge mistake” by investing in Tesco, as the problems mount ...