Baroness Michie of Gallanach, of Oban in Argyll and Bute
Ray Michie, MP for Argyll and Bute from 1987 – 2001, died last night.She stood down from Westminster in 2001, being replaced by fellow Liberal Democrat, Alan Reid. She was then made a life peer, taking...
View ArticleMoD knew Chinook software was ‘positively dangerous’ BEFORE 1994 Machrihanish...
In what ought to be a criminal offence, the MoD knew 9 months before the fatal incident in Argyll, described below, that the software governing the engines of the Chinook Mark 2 helicopter was...
View ArticleReid says Government should simply overturn Chinook verdict
Alan Reid, Argyll’s MP, has been having a busy week but has come up with a straightforward, no nonsense solution to the problem of the now clearly unsound RAF verdict on the fatal crash in Kintyre in...
View ArticleUpset as Brown said to have refused review of Kintyre Chinook crash
The Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, the Right Reverend Bill Hewitt, is said to be angry and disappointed at recent news from London. Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, has...
View ArticleMail on Sunday reveals Hutton ordered David Kelly’s medical records closed...
Today’s Mail on Sunday carries one of the most staggering and inexplicable revelations around what is already the strange death of Dr David Kelly, the United Nations Weapons Inspector, in July 2003.It...
View ArticleSpygate: James Robb asks for clarifications of the CEO’s statement
Councillor James Robb of Helensburgh is concerned to be certain of exactly what the CEO of Argyll and Bute Council, Sally Loudon, is saying and not saying in the press statement she issued on the...
View ArticleVery disturbing footnote in Panorama Savile programme
There was a new and most disturbing note in last night’s BBC Panorama programme on the ever unfolding story of Jimmy Savile’s paedophilia.One of the two original investigative journalists working on...
View ArticleSturgeon at Westminster Foreign Affairs Select Committee yesterday
The outcome of this was a draw – not necessarily an honourable draw as Nicola Sturgeon was clearly busking her way through many of the questions asked [such as whether or not an independent Scotland...
View ArticleNew major financial issue, supposing Scotland voted ‘Yes’ to independence
What follows is an indicative picture of the ‘limbo’ period between a hypothetical ‘Yes’ vote and Independence Day – and a question to which we can find no immediate answer.19th September 2014,...
View Article‘Yes Shetland’ campaign launched as SNP cabinet hits town with deceptive...
Let no one imagine that the Northern Isles are aiming for anything but independence. For the Shetland and Orkney Isles, Devo Max is not an option. Scottish independence is an irrelevance in the view...
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Dorothy Bruce on Alistair Strang’s ‘State of Independence’
This review was to have been accompanied by Alistair Strang’s review of Dorothy Bruce’s book, In the Wake of the Coup – both, in their different ways, engaging with the big issue Scottish residents...
View ArticleClarity at last on states, rights, institutions, assets and liabiities in the...
Professor Adam Tomkins, John Millar Professor of Public Law at the School of Law of the University of Glasgow, is one of the leading scholars in constitutional law in the United Kingdom.Just over three...
View ArticleSalmond’s continuing threat to default on share of national debt raises clean...
[Updated] In his defiant efforts to recover the substantial ground lost to Alastair Darling – the clear if unexpected winner of Tuesday’s debate [5th August] with the First Minister on the stability of...
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New volunteer group, Helensburgh & Lomond Autism/Aspergers Society, takes the...
Helensburgh & Lomond Autism/Aspergers Society was formed around 6 months ago, initially through Facebook, when parents of children with Autism Spectrum Disorders [ASD] recognised that there was no...
View ArticleSunday Times commissioned study on indy setup costs
The Sunday Times commissioned an independent and politically neutral study of the likely setup costs for an independent Scotland from the Centre for Economics and Business Research; and has published...
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