Harris Tweed drops ‘Scottish’ from branding in USA
Harris Tweed has admitted that it has dropped the word ‘Scottish’ from the branding of its products sold in the USA.This has been a commercial response to the negative attitude to Scotland following...
View ArticleMiliband argument for Blair EU Presidency is the size of his motorcade
There really is a parallel universe. Our wonderstruck, autograph-hunting, Foreign secretary (note deliberate use of lower case letter) used a novel argument to advance the cause of Tony Blair’s...
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Remembrance Day 2009
‘Who bends not his ear to any bell which upon any occasion rings? But who can remove it from that bell which is passing a piece of himself out of this world?‘No man is an island, entire of itself;...
View ArticleRaised taxes on fuel and whisky to hit Argyll and rural Scotland
Chancellor Alistair Darling’s budget yesterday included one tax that will hit Argyll and all of rural Scotland and the islands hard.Raised tax on fuelHe raised Fuel Tax by three pence. Yes, this is...
View ArticleBBC Radio Scotland: programme on Black Watch in Afghanistan
At 11.30am on Monday 26th April, BBC Radio Scotland is airing a programme: Black Watch, 3 Scots: A war in their own words.This recounts the experiences in this ongoing war of soldiers in the Black...
View ArticleAfghanistan: the John Kerry question, ‘How do you ask a man to be the last...
This past week, in Washington, President Obama and Prime Minster Cameron discussed how they might manage to achieve one of the foremost ambitions of each of them – to get out of Afghanistan as quickly...
View ArticleTony Blair: no leverage at Leveson
The Leveson Inquiry is a deeply unimpressive affair.The Chilcot Inquiry on Iraq had quite a forensic procedure of interrogation – although it was not conducted with witnesses under oath as is Leveson,...
View ArticleArgyll and Bute Council planning for resumption of war on rural schools
We understand on good authority that Argyll and Bute Council’s education department, led by Cleland Sneddon, is well into preparation for its strategy in a coming resumption of a war of attrition on...
View ArticleClueless Lib Dem position on Trident lessens propects of later Lib-Lab pact
The Liberal Democrat partners in the UK coalition government have floated a report proposing to save £4bn by reducing Britain’s commitment to the first strike nuclear deterrent.Through spokesman Danny...
View Article‘Lincoln’ for Tarbert Film Club
Tarbert Film Club is back on Saturday 14th September with a storming start for the new season.Lincoln dominated this year’s awards ceremonies, most notable for the performance of its lead actor, Daniel...
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2013 Remembrance at the Cenotaph: the Arctic Star on parade
Watching the ceremony of remembrance at the Cenotaph today, 10th November 2013, the bright but cold day made one glad that the beat for the march past was a fast one.These often elderly ex-servicemen,...
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Invitation to readers to contribute to collection on Argyll’s World War 1 war...
The centenary this year, 2014, of the beginning of the first world war in 1914 is being formally marked by the UK Government.With its partners [including the Imperial War Museums, the Heritage Lottery...
View ArticleBestest friends shack up at Dunvotin’
Well, it’s all over. September 18th has come and gone. It was 50%+1 for Indy. Tom Farmer reckons he was the magic ‘+1′. After all the money he spent making up everyone else’s mind, he has to be...
View ArticleStuart McMillan MSP highlights Argyll & Bute Council gaffe in WW1 ‘celebrations’
Stuart McMillan, SNP MSP for Scotland West, has lodged a motion at the Scottish Parliament which expresses concerns that Argyll & Bute Council, in a paper on 20th March that was put forward to...
View ArticleBlair tries to push the west into another intervention in Iraq
The old fortune hunter must be on commission from the arms trade.
View ArticleCumberbatch and Knightley in The Imitation Game at Tarbert Fim Club
Tarbert Film Club’s next screening – on 11th April – will be of the acclaimed movie, The Imitation Game’, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley.Mathematician Alan Turing [Benedict...
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