“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.
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.
Who would be a politician? A couple of weeks ago John Swinney was being portrayed as the axe-man of the East as he single-handedly hobbled poor old Glasgow’s chances of hosting a successful Commonwealth Games by scrapping the airport rail link.
The Glasgow North East seat may be next door to the Glasgow East seat, which Alex Salmond with typical bombast proclaimed to be the site of a political earthquake, but there the similarities end…