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• Unseemly, Muddled and Muddied, but it isn’t Swamp Soccer , 27 Sep 2008 in Local Government& Politics
  

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  As someone who has already complained about Dunoon’s “interesting” attitude to large capital projects on this website, to read the headline today on forargyll.com regarding “competition” for funding for regeneration in Argyll between our five major towns is deeply distressing. No-one seems to be taking the council to task on this, especially those [...]

• 700 Billion Dollars On The Banks? , 25 Sep 2008 in America
  

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  When the US government is prepared to spend this sort of cash it makes you wonder what they could have spent the money on before the crisis. Given that there are just over 300 Million people in the US, George ‘Dubya‘ Bush is going to be spending $2,500 per person to support a [...]

• Nemanja Vidic’s Poetry , 30 Aug 2008 in Sport
  

  “Manchester is the city of rain,” Nemanja Vidic said, “… its main attraction is considered to be the timetable at the railway station, where trains leave for other, less rainy cities …”
  And he’s been roundly criticised, hounded and, eventually, told to recant his words as being misquoted. Pity, it is not often that I’ve laughed [...]

• Shinty Madness? , 28 Aug 2008 in Community News& Social issues& Sport
  

  Teeth getting knocked out. Chins being split. Eyes lost. Fractured ankles being played on. Brains being dulled. Or were they dull already? I’m not sure. As an Englishman who played hockey and rugby I can’t believe the level of personal danger posed by playing shinty. Its unbelievable to me that safety kit is not used [...]

• The Great DAB & Radio Swindle , 26 Jun 2008 in Communications& Independence& Local Government& Media& Politics& Radio& Social issues
  

  As a teenager when I heard the Sex Pistols on old analogue radio for the first time, I knew, with many of my contemporaries, that I was hearing history in the making, even out in nowhere-near-anything-north of England. That day burned bright in every teenager’s consciousness – radio had allowed us to activate in a [...]

• The Imminent Trashing of Dunoon Pier , 13 May 2008 in Local Government
  

  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 [...]