‘Council speak with forked tongue?’
…or so, in a statement issued to the media today, asks Neighbourhood Networks, the social care service provider whose funding has been cut in its entirety by Argyll and Bute Council.Text of statement...
View Article2010 Schools Act: ‘presumption against the closure of rural schools’ ?
The troubled state of the 2010 Schools Act has been caused by an unequivocal precedent set by the Scottish Government’s Education Department. This was the result of its, shall we say novel,...
View ArticleSerco, Transport Scotland and the NorthLink dry docking spin
Serco and the Transport Minister have been found out in a sleight of hand deception to make the Serco operation of the Northern Isles Ferry Services look more customer friendly and more cost efficient...
View ArticleScotland Transerv loses Argyll and the Isles road routes – and the A83...
Transport Scotland has changed the area responsibilities for Scotland’s roads – for whatever reason.Scotland Transerv has lost the contract for the road routes in Argyll and Bute and is now to look...
View ArticleA83 emergency diversion works begin
Transport Scotland has today [16th November] recommenced the works to ready the old military roadin Glen Croe to act as an emergency diversion route when the A83 is hit by the landslides to which it is...
View ArticleBooker and Costa prizes not enough for publicity hound Mantel – hitting on...
Author Hilary Mantel, the current icon of the middle class literati, winning the Booker Prize for the second time and winning the Costa Book of the Year – with her book sales rocketing in result, seems...
View ArticleReports of SSE giving out false information on Campbeltown ‘reconnection’
We are being told by an angry resident of Campbeltown that SSE are repeatedly giving inaccurate information to the media on the status of the supply to the town.This resident turned on the radio at...
View ArticleTwo perspectives on Transport Scotland’s public reporting on Scotland’s major...
Transport Scotland and the Scottish Government have just been told by Audit Scotland that they must improve their public reporting on major projects. This is the conclusion of a review by the audit...
View ArticleFirst Minister reveals dangerous confusions over role of the media
Scotland’s First Minister has made an attack on BBC Scotland that, worryingly, reveals the extent of his own monomania.He has accused the BBC of failing to put across the independence case.It is not...
View ArticleThe art of misinformation
An SNP press release yesterday headlined the shocking fact: ‘Scots now elect only 4 per cent of the UK Parliament following the expansion of the House of Lords.’This is a classic example of sleight of...
View ArticleLabour has no hope unless it cleans up
The Labour party has inflicted two bad strikes upon itself this weekend.First of all, its Leader, Ed Milliband [and only the desperate would imagine that David would be any better], reacted to the GMB...
View ArticleFish farm industry Scotland’s second dirtiest as two Loch Etive fish farms named
Second only to the waste industry, the fish farm industry -aka aquaculture – was the worst offender in Scotland for environmental pollution.The Scottish Environmental Protection Agency [SEPA] has...
View ArticleOnly the UK could claim Winter Games performance as epic
Who but the UK would try to claim, with a straight face, that what is being described as ‘a haul of medals’ from the 2014 Sochi Winter Games – one gold, one silver and two bronze – is in fact an epic...
View ArticleDavid Stewart’s Parliamentary question and FOI release show Transport...
Transport Minister, Keith Brown MSP, has been shown, materially and knowingly, to have misled a fellow MSP in a written answer he provided to Dave Stewart MSP on 24th January 2013 – an answer to a...
View ArticleEmbarrassment for Lib Dems in Euro candidate’s ‘each way’ action
It was revealed yesterday that former Argyll and Bute MSP and now his party’s sole Scottish MEP, George Lyon, ever a realist, has been hedging his position against the possible loss of his seat in...
View ArticleAre schools to close – and is Cleland Sneddon establishing an alternative...
An advertisement has been placed by Argyll and Bute Council with S1 Jobs – for a Communications and Engagement Officer:‘to assist the Head of Education in providing high quality, professional, service...
View ArticleGrangemouth importing cheap shales gives insight into North Sea production
The news yesterday, 17th July, of the UK Government’s £230 million loan to owner, Ineos, for the Grangemouth Refinery to build a gigantic ethane storage tank to support its planned import of cheap...
View ArticleScottish Labour MPs – not absent SNP MPs – do the heavy lifting on getting...
Only two out of six SNP MPs – but all 40 Scottish Labour MPs [including former Prime Minister Gordon Brown and former Chancellor Alastair Darling] – were in the voting lobby of the House of Commons...
View ArticleToo little to late – ADP extends local service providers contracts by a month
In proof of their innate incompetence and dysfunctionality, the Argyll & Bute Alcohol and Drugs Partnership [ADP] has reacted to widespread alarm by suddenly extending by one month the contracts of...
View ArticleThe black arts of political spin betray SNP fears in Argyll & Bute
A very interesting press release was issued last night by the SNP candidate for the Argyll & Bute seat in the UK’s May 2015 General Election.Brendan O’Hara, the SNP candidate was ‘calling on Labour...
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