The timid mediocrities and the begrudgers are at it again - squealing in statutory reviews and the media about the impact on competition of the BBC’s massively successful and massive website services.
Take it from Argyll. Listen, you blinkered whingers - where were all of you when the BBC had the vision to realise the power [...]
You couldn’t make it up - but you can and will pay for it. In 2002 one of Faslane’s nuclear submarines, HS Trafagar, ran into the seabed close inshore off the Isle of Skye. The Inquiry report, released earlier this month, found that the trainee navigators had been using tracing paper to plot their course [...]
Will someone give me one irrefutable defence for leaving the legal limit for terminations at twenty four weeks? Of course there will always be compelling reasons for legal abortions in specific circumstances but there can be none for the capacity to leave it so late. At this stage we’re talking about a viable life outside [...]
Isn’t it interesting how much of a serious politician Henry McLeish sounds these days? Has he matured and grown in stature - or does he seem mouthwateringly informed and magisterial compared with the current fleet of Labour pygmies in Holyrood?
Will both warring wings of the flightless bird that is currently the Oban Airport project decide now on their priorities? What’s important - scoring points, airing faults on both sides in public in an expensive legal battle funded by the taxpayer or retrieving what’s left of Argyll’s corporate credibility after this juvenile schoolyard brawl?
Regardless of [...]
In all the hoo-ha after the publication of Cherry-picker Blair’s autobiography, Speaking for Myself, there’s another eye-opening piece of the Spinner’s art. It’s been leaked by ‘friends’ that the saviour of the Middle East (not), T. Blair, is “incandescent” at how the C-P has made public some of the intimacies of their sex life. Sorry? [...]
Anybody help? Can’t quite work this one out. Gordon Brown removes the 10p income tax band, leaving our poorest even poorer. Uproar. Rightly so. Will he reverse this single action and restore the 10p band? Hivvins, no. The budget is a seamless whole and you don’t monkey with any part of it.
But - after more [...]
Argyll & Bute Council have been talking up a major redevelopment of the historic waterfront of the town, and their favoured option is to demolish the pier, which is a listed structure. Particularly galling is that at a public meeting in November last year non-definitive, non-official soundings were taken over 4 possible designs for the [...]
So, when she flew the Saltire for an immediate referendum on Scottish Independence, Wee Wendy was only ‘flushing out’ the SNP. Right? And El Gordo says she managed it. Right? So tell me… What, precisely, did she flush them out of? What have we discovered about them we didn’t already know? They’ve hardly been disguising [...]
Industry sources suggest that if Carphone Warehouse succeeds in getting control of internet group, Tiscali, Vodafone is developing a partnership proposal to Carphone Warehouse which might see BT cut back as Vodafone’s main partner for consumer broadband provision. The plan might even see BT dropped altogether as Vodafone’s major source of telecoms infrastructure in the [...]
