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Argyll First ask for special MAKI meeting to discuss budget implications for...

Argyll First wanted to see a specially convened meeting of the Mid Argyll, Kintyre and Islay (MAKI) Committee so that the impact of budget proposals on services at a local level can be discussed.The...

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Campbeltown rumours about Wind Towers declared unfounded

Campbeltown has been hearing a series of rumours about the sustainablity of Wind Towers Limited, the third wind turbine tower manufacturer brought to the plant at Machrihanish near Campbeltown.We have...

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Kidneys now off the PR menu for Health Secretary

It must have looked like a good wheeze to take the media focus off the fiddled waiting time statistics and with the worst waiting times for A&E since 2007 about to be published.Health Secretary,...

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Troubling responses to the death of Margaret Thatcher

First of all, The Herald yesterday made the best choice of photograph to lead their coverage of the death of Britain’s longest serving 20th century Prime Minister.The photograph selected was a triumph...

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Damage to the BBC

The House of Commons Public Accounts Committee has been having a torrid time trying to put together any reliable and coherent picture of what has been going on in the BBC over pay-offs to departing...

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Education Secretary does a Macavity in worsening chaos around new Nationals

Today’s press has been highlighting the pressured desperation in which teachers and pupils find themselves as they try to prepare for the imminent onset of the new National  5 and 6...

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Councillor on the record with Part II on Castle Toward, Actual Reality and...

This is the second part of Councillor Michael Breslin’s account of his first hand experience of the conduct of Argyll and But Council in the ever murkier affair of Castle Toward, Ardentinny and Actual...

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Indy could lead to a change of UK government under a year into office

[Updated below 4th February] Supposing Scotland went for Indy in September 2014, the UK General Election in May 2015 and what comes after it is a matter of serious interest..Of course we would elect...

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Take a stroll in postliberal politics

And no. This does not mean whatever emerges if the Liberal Democrats prove irrecoverable. This is about the beginnings of a new approach to politics, recognising that the majority understand what the...

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Political funding the story of the day

As the SNP is announced to have been given yet another £1 by mega Euromillions winners Chris and Colin Weir – seeing the party and the Yes campaign together get a whacking £5.5 million from a single...

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Has Sturgeon ‘red line’ forced MoD evaluation of Pembrokeshire as Trident...

The Scottish Daily Mail has today run a story that the Ministry of Defence is examining the viability of Milford Haven in Pembrokeshire in Wales as the base for the Trident nuclear submarine fleet the...

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Castle Toward deadline: council chipping away to the very last

[Updated below] Generosity of spirit – or even the will to form constructive relations with the communities it exists to serve – seems to be beyond the reach of Argyll and Bute Council.South Cowal...

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Council Leader caught telling porkies about Castle Toward? But to whom?

[Updated below] It seems as if there may be another expression of interest in Castle Toward. This is said to have been communicated to Monday’s meeting of his administration by Council Leader and...

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Castle Toward: latest attempt to get Council leader to admit to dodgy loan offer

This morning, 7th February, has seen another attempt to bring Council Leader Dick Walsh out of an indefensible denial that no officer offered South Cowal Community Development Company[SCCDC]  a loan...

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SNP branch convenor and campaigner was Kennedy’s vicious Twitter troll

Today’s edition of the Daily Mail has a front page story unmasking the viciously hurtful Twitter troll who serially vented bile against the late Charles Kennedy on this platform for the mindless.He is...

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