Tag: BBC
BBC Scotland – Devil’s advocate or just plain Devil?
There’s an old joke about two drinking companions, one has a wooden leg and the other a humph on his back. One night, after...
Have Labour committed electoral suicide over the council tax?
It happened before in the nineties when the British Labour party seriously misjudged the electorate’s appetite for paying more taxes. In 1992 the Labour...
Cash for questions? – Not on this form Iain
Last week’s First Ministers Questions was an interesting affair. Labour’s Iain Gray alleged that nurses in Aberdeen were being asked to work for nothing,...
‘Daft, Deluded & Dangerous’ – Media coverage of last weeks FMQs
First Ministers Questions (FMQs) is the weekly event held in the Scottish parliament that sees the leader of each of the opposition groups question...
Labour urge US Senators to “join with us” as both question...
Labour’s Scottish Justice spokesman Richard Baker has suggested that US Senators and Labour should join forces as a Senate inquiry continues to look into...
How to save the BBC
Kenneth Roy Of all the interest groups variously assembled in Edinburgh in the last three weeks, the prize for the most insufferably self-regarding must...
Fury at BBC’s ‘anti-Scottish’ broadcast
Politicians and members of the public have reacted with fury after a BBC Radio 4 broadcast heard commentators describe Scots as living off of...
Outraged – by a factor of four.
It was national outrage day last Friday, the anniversary of the compassionate release of Abdelbaset Al Megrahi was marked by BBC Scotland with a marathon broadcast...