Archive for the ‘Morhamburn Comment’ Category

Election 2010 – Conservatives: Think it’s difficult to join the Government? Think again…

Following the launch of the Labour manifesto on Monday, the Conservatives released their ‘Invitation to join the government of Britain’ yesterday.  Tell your family, Mr Cameron said, tell your friends, tell your friends to tell their friends, tell your friend to tell their friends to tell their friends, tell… Well you get my point. Thank …


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  • 14/04/10 at 3.30pm
  • By Mark

Election 2010 – The Others: Pluralism Alive and Well in Political Non-establishment

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…


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  • 13/04/10 at 12.22pm
  • By Keith

Election 2010 – Labour: A Very Blair-like Project?

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. Andrew, who will be our Labour man as they seek an historic fourth term, looks at their manifesto which was launched in Birmingham today.


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  • 12/04/10 at 10.35am
  • By Andrew

Election 2010 – Liberal Democrats: Trust me, I’m a reformer

Morhamburn is following the UK general election closely, with each team member being allocated a party to follow for the duration of the campaign. John is following potential king-makers the Liberal Democrats and looking at how the outcome of this election could fundamentally change the electoral landscape of the UK.


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  • 10/04/10 at 2.42pm
  • By John

Election 2010 – SNP: Dancing to a Scottish Jig?

Morhamburn will be following the UK general election campaign closely, with each team member being allocated a particular party to follow for the duration of the campaign. Niamh, who is following the SNP as they struggle to be heard, kicks us off with a look at the SNP and their attempts to localise a UK election.


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  • 9/04/10 at 5.07pm
  • By Niamh

Election 2010 – Conservatives: conservatively progressive?

Morhamburn will be following the UK general election campaign closely, with each team member being allocated a particular party to follow for the duration of the campaign. Mark, who is following poll leaders the Conservatives, kicks us off with a look at the Tories’ and their progressive message.


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  • 7/04/10 at 3.02pm
  • By Mark

A sum less than the pairts?

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.


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  • 25/03/10 at 11.09am
  • By Keith

Carbon capture – will it be the way ahead for Scotland?

On May 1, 2009, the Scottish Government published ‘Opportunities for CO2 Storage Around Scotland,’ which was widely trailed as the most comprehensive study of carbon capture and storage so far conducted in the United Kingdom.

Included among the report’s key findings were the following observations:

Scotland has the ability to safely accommodate industrial emissions generated in the …


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  • 19/03/10 at 5.40pm
  • By Andrew

US-style pre-election TV debates come to Britain

Manchester, Bristol and Birmingham are the chosen venues. The topics will be domestic politics, foreign affairs and the economy. They will be shown by ITV, Sky News and the BBC. The presenters will be Alistair Stewart, Adam Boulton and David Dimbleby.


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  • 3/03/10 at 10.56am
  • By Mark

Really the hardest word?

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.


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  • 25/02/10 at 11.23am
  • By Keith