Morhamburn is following the UK general election campaign closely, with each team member being allocated a party to follow for the duration of the campaign. Keith will be following closely the ‘others’, a job he began with a visit to official register of UK political parties…
Scotland often strikes you as a confused wee mass of contradictions and ironies; famously hospitable, yet infamously aggressive; rooted in history yet so popularly ignorant of it; the home of mass, comprehensive education, yet economically stultified.
It might not rank as one of the great pieces of oratory, but I would suggest that Scottish Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon’s speech before a packed Debating Chamber yesterday will long be remembered as another milestone in Holyrood’s maturation.
“Totally unacceptable” and “sickening”. That’s how Iain Gray MSP and John Park MSP have described the revelations that the FM and Deputy FM have been auctioning lunches at Holyrood.
To paraphrase Terry Pratchett’s Richard Dimbleby lecture that was broadcast on BBC 1 last night, there is increasingly a feeling that momentum is building behind the idea of assisted dying, with it beginning to feel like an idea whose time has come.
Morhamburn’s report of the debate which took place in the Holyrood chamber on Thursday January 21st 2010.
In these times of untrustworthy banks, negligible interest payments on savings and a receding economy, it seems everyone is looking for a nice safe place in which to put their hard-earned. The same could be said of the Scottish Government, who need new economic horses to back with our hard-earned now that their front-runner, banking, has fallen at a fence and broken all of its legs…
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 …
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.
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.