Opinion
Brian Monteith: Bad time for Tories to suffer an identity crisis
The Tories don’t need a new logo, they need to think about responding to the big SNP show, writes Brian Monteith
1 commentToby Strauss: Despite bleak reports on pension provision, there is time to save future generations’ retirements
IN TODAY’S low-interest, low-growth environment, savers have never had it so tough. With disposable income under increasing pressure, people are finding it more challenging than ever to find the money to invest in their retirement.
Fordyce Maxwell: The highest bidder wins – whatever their nationality
AS A small-scale landowner – I have approximately 0.6 of an acre, which sounds slightly more impressive than 0.243 of a hectare – it doesn’t do to get too upset by the activities of large-scale owners and buyers of land.
Leaders: Political expenses ‘errors’ should be things of the past
A SENIOR political figure; allegations of unpaid rent on a flat for which an expense allowance had been claimed; calls for an investigation by the relevant watchdog. Oh, no, not politicians on the fiddle again?
Tim Cornwell: Nat show needs 007 – and better songs
I’M A sucker for historic events, so I sneaked out on Friday morning to the Yes Scotland launch, hoping for a taste of one. The excuse was a promised line up of cultural stars turning out to back Scottish independence, at Cineworld in Fountain Park (screen 7).
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Comment
Anaylsis: Did the butler really do it, and is he whistleblower or scapegoat?
PAOLO Gabriele was always a reserved, almost shy man, as his position required. He had access to the most private rooms in the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace – Pope Benedict’s apartment.
The Scotsman cartoon 28/05/2012
Our cartoonist pokes fun at Alistair Darling’s assertion that the pro-Union campaign is his priority...
Lloyd Anderson: The language of selling is a valuable asset
YOU may have read the story recently of a 14-year-old Scottish schoolboy dubbed “the most multilingual child” in the UK.
Bruce Baillie-Hamilton, from Callander, can speak Russian, Mandarin, Arabic, French, German, Spanish and English.
Jonathan Trew: Dumfries and Galloway Arts Festival
It’s not just T in the Park-style music festivals that have exploded in popularity over the last 15 years or so. Small scale regional arts festivals have also mushroomed – they just tend to involve less lager.
John Drummond: Transparency on issue of tobacco cuts both ways
SHEILA Duffy of anti-smoking campaign Ash Scotland was right when she argued in this column earlier this week that there should be full transparency about the interests, especially financial, of any organisation involved in debates on issues as important as public health.
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Leader comment
Leaders: Yes Scotland launch targets hearts first, heads later
IT WAS slick, professional and polished, with an added thin sprinkling of Holyrood stardust.
2 commentsLeader: Minimum prices only the first measure to take
Scotland has become the first country in Europe to legislate for the introduction of a minimum price for a unit of alcohol, in this case 50p.
3 commentsLeaders: Tipping point reached in eurozone crisis
A TIPPING point has now been reached in the crisis that has engulfed Greece and put her continued membership of the European single currency in peril. Yesterday, markets round the world fell sharply on reports that contingency preparations are now being made for a Greek exit from the euro.
Leader: IMF sugars the pill – but it must be swallowed
THE verdict delivered by the International Monetary Fund yesterday on the state of the British economy under the Conservative/Liberal Democrat coalition allows beleaguered Chancellor George Osborne to breathe a sigh of relief.
Leaders: Attitudes towards work are in dire need of repair
CAR sales and servicing company Arnold Clark has concluded it is “sad and disheartening” to discover that, in its view, more than 80 per cent of young Scots applying to it for work are “unsuitable for any employment”. It says it found that youngsters it hoped to recruit as apprentices had wholly unrealistic expectations of the modern workplace, a poor attitude to others and were taken aback at the working hours expected of them.
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Letters
Double speak
Alex Salmond seems to present a contradiction between his words and his government’s actions.
1 commentProper grammar
Grammatical standards have slumped in the face of today’s view that it matters not how anything is said as long as it’s understood.
Banner banned
The Olympic rules say that only the flag of competing countries can be flown at Olympic venues.
Food for thought
Stephen Jardine must agree that the educational benefits of taking children to proper restaurants from an early age must not be overlooked (Comment, 26 May). Experience and habits formed early in life are the most enduring.
Cartoon
The Scotsman cartoon 28/05/2012
Our cartoonist pokes fun at Alistair Darling’s assertion that the pro-Union campaign is his priority...
The Scotsman cartoon - 26/05/2012
As Alex Salmond’s Yes campaign is launched, our cartoonist wonders whether the First Minister’s Hollywood lineup chimes with his independence rhetoric
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The Scotsman cartoon 25/05/12
Today our cartoonist pokes fun at the current goings on with the British economy
The Scotsman cartoon 23/05/2012
Our cartoonist draws on the SNP’s back-and-forthing over the Nato issue...
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