- Barge hauls aircraft carrier's hull
- Children at nursery contract E.coli
- Fire debris 'may have asbestos'
- Young professionals 'prefer cities'
- Man arrested over rape of woman, 19
- Water warning issued amid hot spell
- Murder inquiry after man found dead
- Yes declaration seeks 1m signatures
- Man found unconscious in street
- Campaign for independence begins
Margo MacDonald
Margo MacDonald: More than one way to face EU uncertainty
Readers who watch really scary programmes on TV, like First Minister’s Questions, and news bulletins on who else ate all the pies, may have heard the Presiding Officer gently nudging me into line after I’d asked my question at FMQs last week. Fair do. I deployed the parliamentary custom of chancing my arm.
1 commentMargo MacDonald: Blame euro for plight of Greece
Why do you think Greece has ended up in such an unholy mess? Did the Greeks go beyond the limit with their credit cards? Did they buy big boys’ toys, like aircraft carriers, to prove that they were still a force in the world? So how come the UK has got away with it but not poor old Greece?
Margo MacDonald: French revolution is not greatest concern
Were the “sans culottes” and petit bourgeois who thronged the streets of Paris when the results of the French presidential run-off were known demonstrating their unbounded joy that socialist candidate Francois Hollande had been elected, or that the right-winger formerly known as President Sarkozy had been voted out of office?
Margo MacDonald: Thinking out of the box for vote
I’ve an idea about the future for the redundant police boxes. And just maybe I’ve hit on something that chimes with the present-day attitude to politics.
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- Alistair Darling leads ‘No to independence’ fight over tea and biscuits
- Scottish independence: SNP flip-flops over Nato
- Scottish Independence: SNP ‘won’t be Yes campaign’s only voice’
- Today’s youth not fit to be employed, says car firm Arnold Clark
- Scottish independence: ‘People here are best qualified to run Scotland’
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