Opinion
Scotland on Sunday cartoon - 20/05/2012
As former England captain David Beckham lights the Olympic flame in a London ceremony, G8 leaders may find their dreams of maintaining the eurozone go up in smoke
Comment: What is there to ‘like’ about Facebook flotation?
FEW flotations have captured the public’s imagination in quite the same way as Facebook’s first day of trading on Friday. As one observer stated, it was rare for such an event to take place in which everyone has a stake in the outcome.
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Comment: Pain in Spain a headache for everyone
TWO telephone calls out of the blue at the end of last week brought disturbing news. The first was from a well-connected source in Brussels; the second from a contact in Spain.
Duncan Hamilton: Centralisation as a response to euro crisis would leave us all the poorer
Charlemagne knew a thing or two about expanding empires. He knew also about quelling local rebellions and converting unwilling peoples to a new ideology. It was, therefore, perhaps appropriate that German finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble was awarded the Charlemagne Prize in Aachen. The award is for those who have effectively promoted the concept of a unified and cohesive Europe. It is not known whether anyone from Greece had a vote, but I somehow suspect not.
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Dani Garavelli: Language policy sure to be lost in translation
EVERY couple of weeks I have the same row with my eldest son. As he sighs theatrically over his French homework, I burble on about the merits of being able to converse with people from other countries.
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Comment
Drumlanrig: Vintage nickname for Joan McAlpine
THAT the ex-journalist and now SNP MSP Joan McAlpine should enjoy a lavish lunch with Alex Salmond came as little surprise to her former newspaper colleagues who have long associated her with fine wine.
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Gerald Warner: Removing taint on Scots peers would be a noble jubilee gesture
LAST week’s report in Scotland on Sunday about the petition being sent to the Queen, requesting her to mark her Diamond Jubilee by reversing the Acts of Attainder passed against 18th-century Jacobites, subjecting their descendants indefinitely to “corruption of blood”, relates to issues at the emotional core of Scottish history.
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Geoff Mulgan: New generation of pioneers waiting to be switched on
YOU might have thought that learning about information technology in schools would be exciting and infinitely motivating. After all, teenagers find it hard to tear themselves away from games and social media. Left to their own devices, they have no difficulty creating new characters, stories and home movies.
Johann Lamont: Don’t let Alex Salmond’s sideshow detract from the powers we have already
ALEX Salmond seems to have learned the wrong lesson from Tony Blair. The lesson from Blair is not that cosying up to Rupert Murdoch is the key to success.
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Leaders: Shameful way to treat anyone
Scum. Gypos. Mongs. Thieves. Beggars. Paedos. As we reveal today this is how Glasgow’s Roma population are viewed by officials in Scotland’s largest city.
Leaders
Leaders: Shameful way to treat anyone
Scum. Gypos. Mongs. Thieves. Beggars. Paedos. As we reveal today this is how Glasgow’s Roma population are viewed by officials in Scotland’s largest city.
Leaders: Drug habit that needs breaking
OUR news report today revealing that elderly patients in Scottish care homes are being prescribed cocktails of powerful drugs “inappropriately”, with possible harmful consequences, raises very serious issues.
Leader: Independence is not overriding priority for all
HOW did the local elections go for the SNP? That is an obvious question to ask in the wake of last Thursday’s political convulsions among Scotland’s local authorities.
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Leaders: Voters will judge Alex Salmond
ALEX Salmond can count himself lucky this weekend to have escaped deeper scrutiny over his relations with Rupert Murdoch.
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Duncan Hamilton
Duncan Hamilton: House of Lords adds unexpected sparkle to dull political debate
CLEMENT Attlee wonderfully described the House of Lords as being “like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days”. But will it stand for much longer, given the commitment to reform in the coalition Queen’s Speech?
Duncan Hamilton: A coalition meltdown can only boost the Yes vote for independence
WITH the SNP becoming easily the largest party in Scotland and Labour successfully winning a majority in the totemic Glasgow City Council, the public perception of the Scottish local elections this week will probably be that of a score draw. But what relevance for Scotland did the UK results have as a whole?
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Duncan Hamilton: Salmond did no wrong while Hunt seems to have done little right
HAVING ended the training of Latin teachers in Scotland the last time they were in power, I suppose it is probably asking too much of Labour and the Lib Dems in Scotland to grasp the concept of quid pro quo.
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Dani Garavelli
Does exile on CBBC prove Blue Peter has finally lost its appeal for the young?
THE air of gloom was palpable. As news filtered through that Blue Peter – that custodian of myriad childhood memories – was to be axed from BBC1, generations raised on silver bottle tops and totalisers took to Twitter to lament its passing.
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Chitra Ramaswamy
Chitra Ramaswamy: Is it just me or has 2012 forgotten its own age?
BASICALLY, if 2012 were an outfit, it would be a babydoll dress with wedges fat enough to prop open a fire door.
Chitra Ramaswamy: ‘Who is immune to the charms of the cassette? The feeling of your finger sticking snugly into the little toothy holes so you could wind it’
PHASE two of the Great Clearout has begun. Phase one, you may recall, was Operation VHS and started some time around the last Ice Age. This was a saga as epic and vicious as Attenborough's Trials of Life series (which we decided to keep).
Louisa Pearson
Louisa Pearson: ‘I haven’t noticed many boulangeries in Scotland (no, Greggs doesn’t count)’
WHAT makes 2012 significant? Bear in mind there are several wrong answers and one right one to this question.
Ruth Walker
Ruth Walker: ‘I’m seriously considering attaching the teenager’s stuff to her with string’
FIRST, there was the mobile phone theft. It was whipped right out of her pocket while she supped a pint of snakebite or Diamond White, or whatever it is the young people drink these days.
Letters
Letter: Cost-cutting can create Scots jobs
FREELANCERS are helping to create more local jobs, not take them away as suggested in “Website boss dismisses ‘threat’ to jobs” (Business, 13 May).
Letter: Further theories on cuckoo decline
IT MUST be a source of great satisfaction that we now know the destination of the Norfolk cuckoo in the northern winter, and indeed the routes taken to get there from Norfolk (News, 6 May). (In my latest book, Walter’s Wiggles: The Random Thoughts Of A Random Traveller, there is some useful speculation as to why the five known routes should differ.)
Letter: Fighting child refugees’ corner
IN ANNA Burnside’s otherwise insightful and sensitively written piece in Spectrum magazine, titled Gimme Shelter (6 May), it was not made clear that the Scottish Guardianship Service was conceived, developed and is run by the Scottish Refugee Council. We deliver the service in partnership with Aberlour Child Care Trust.
Letter: Alex Salmond has ego to be proud of
A CHALLENGE for Alexander McKay (Debate, 6 May): name any UK political leader more popular and successful than Alex Salmond. He talks of Salmond’s “ego” as if he should be ashamed of it. My dictionary defines it as “personal pride”.
14 commentsLetter: Historic record of Hibernian is on the move
PAUL Forsyth’s excellent piece “Derby Pioneers” (Sport, 13 May) doesn’t tell the whole story of the origins of Hibs.
- Rangers takeover: Duff & Phelps threaten legal action against BBC
- Family mourn death of Glasgow ‘fight’ schoolboy
- Today’s youth not fit to be employed, says car firm Arnold Clark
- Rangers administration: Fans fear Duff & Phelps claims could scare off Green
- Rangers takeover: triple penalty punishment enough, says Johnston
- 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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