Archive for December, 2009

Debate about the debates

The General Election is now officially a vote for who is to be the UK Prime Minister, apparently. That’s strange, because my ballot paper doesn’t include Messrs Cameron, Brown or Clegg.

It has been one of the great criticisms of New Labour that they have distorted the UK system into an increasingly Presidential style – this series …


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  • 23/12/09 at 12.05pm
  • By Keith

Snow falls shock

Looking out of the window of our plane as it landed at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport ten days ago I spotted some heavy duty snow clearing machines. The size of bendy buses, I gave up counting after about ten of them.

With an eye for irrelevant details, I spotted that these vast snow machines had red flashing …


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  • 23/12/09 at 11.59am
  • By John

Climate change is only a reality if it’s a reality

When snow is piling up against the window, and your feet are cold even in the office, climate change is a difficult concept to get your head around; and therein lies the problem.


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  • 19/12/09 at 11.45am
  • By Keith

Bah, humbug…

There was a time when I considered myself something of a political anorak. Thursday was the high point of my working week: FMQs, political shows back to back; Chamber business re-runs on the Politics channel on Saturday mornings nicely topped off with Politics Scotland on Sundays. My kids could fight all they liked for the …


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  • 18/12/09 at 12.30pm
  • By Andrew

Morhamburn supports Dreamflight

Morhamburn was delighted to support the Dreamflight charity in October 2009 as they took 192 seriously ill and disabled children on a once in a lifetime holiday to the famous theme parks of Orlando, Florida.


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  • 14/12/09 at 5.33pm
  • By Keith

Time to rethink how to ‘get things done’?

I recently watched a programme where a TV architect revisited the Grand Tour to look at where Britain’s architectural inspirations came from. On the tour, he visited Paris and Rome, and he explained how the wonderful layouts and architectural achievements of the two great cities were effectively down to strong-arm planning.


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  • 11/12/09 at 2.49pm
  • By Keith

Scottish Water report card: Not bad, but not yet good enough

Waterwatch Scotland (WWS), the independent consumer watchdog for Scotland’s water industry, has called on Scottish Water to up its game when it comes to customer service.


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Saving the planet one summit at a time

If memory serves me correct climate change has been on the agenda for some time now, but again do correct me if I have misinterpreted this. Scientists are practically blue (though green does strike me as a more appropriate use of imagery) in the face telling us that the point of no return lies on …


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  • 7/12/09 at 2.00pm
  • By Niamh