Banks and business, RBS and Diageo: The Empire Strikes Back
In a pincer movement, two massive businesses, each driven back with a recent fall from grace, have launched attacks on the impertinence of government for, well… governing.RBSThe Royal Bank of...
View Article‘Regular guy’s’ finances hidden by offshore secrecy jurisdiction
That ‘regular guy’, former Prime Minister Tony Blair, has a very regular attitude to the vast wealth (over £15 million) he has accumulated since leaving office in 2007 – ‘regular’ for the super-rich,...
View ArticleHow many Argyll & Bute Council officers can enter your home without consent,...
This is a serious question and it is one that, to date, the Council has refused to answer. It comes in the wake of significant national concern on the growth of the number of employees of Councils and...
View ArticlePublic meeting on Council plans to sell Castle Toward
There is a public meeting at Innellan Village Hall on 13th January at 7.30pm to explore reactions to the current plans of Argyll and Bute Council to divest itself of its responsibilities and sell...
View ArticleKenny Logan tries to kick Beauly-Denny line into touch
Kenny Logan thinks as well as he dances – engagingly but without connecting up the limbs of an argument.Logan today publicly joined the ranks of the Beauly-Denny power line protesters. In the best of...
View ArticleDid BBC show a subliminal ad during Hungarian Grand Prix?
A few minutes after Lewis Hamilton pitted to change to intermediate tyres in the last quarter of the Hungarian Grand Prix today (31st July 2011), a plain white type message appeared very briefly about...
View ArticleFor Argyll questions Cabinet Secretary for Infrastructure on Gourock-Dunoon...
For Argyll has asked for responses to the following questions from Transport Scotland and from the Cabinet Secretary for Infrastructure and Capital Investment.‘In the hypothetical situation of any...
View ArticleLaunch of Crofting Register – with one year for voluntary registration
The first Crofting Register has been launched to give crofters legal certainty over their crofts.The register is part of the modernisation of crofting the Scottish Government has undertaken as part of...
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