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November, 2008

Contracting saltire production to Asia

Sunday, 16th November, 2008 | Community News | None

The row over the Scottish Government placing contracts in Asia for the production of Saltires has been illuminating. Makes you realise that the SNP is the only party which can never place contracts of any kind outside the country if there is a native company capable of delivering.
The clarifier here was that it was [...]

Moral compass? Gordon Brown?

Sunday, 16th November, 2008 | Community News, Politics | None

Gordon Brown lost no time in conveying his feelings to the BBC on Russell Brand’s and Jonathan Ross’s competitive lapse of taste. Brand resigned. Ross was suspended. Taking a judgmental position, however, on the unimaginably awful life and death of Baby P is a different matter. Due process rules in this case. Brown may be [...]

It wasn’t Lewis who won, it was Bernie and it was Bernie doing the driving

Monday, 3rd November, 2008 | 1 | None

Before the off at Interlagos yesterday Martin Brundle asked Bernie Ecclestone, ardent milker of the cash cow he has made of Formula One, why it was that so many championships in recent years have come down to the last couple of races. Bernie kept a straight face and said that it was because the competition [...]