Tag: snp government
Media critic writes in defence of the ‘totalitarian’ SNP government
Retired media analyst John Robertson takes issue with press criticism of the SNP in government
‘Arrogant, dismissive, illiberal, reactionary, totalitarian!’
What, UKIP? Not UKIP? Don’t tell me...
Don’t frighten the horses: Cautious SNP adopts strategy of the ‘Old...
Dr John Robertson takes issue with 'Fabianism' in the SNP approach to media
In 221 BC, Roman general, Fabius Maximus Verrucosus, the ‘Cunctator’ or ‘delayer’,...
Agenda – Scottish News
The breaking story this morning is that opponents of a single police force for Scotland – the policy of the SNP Government and the...
World Food Crisis: A Newsnet Investigation
THE Food Wars have begun. Oxfam is warning that the price of staple foods will more than double in the next 20 years unless...
Daily Mail gets it wrong…again
HER Majesty’s Daily Mail got hot under the collar about the First Minister’s speech to the Scottish Parliament outlining the SNP Government’s legislative programme....
2011 All Energy Conference opens with a warning
By a Newsnet correspondent 19 May SIR Ian Wood, one of the leading figures in the North Sea oil industry, has warned that...
North Sea oil industry still in danger from Tory-Lib Dem tax...
Energy Analysis by George Kerevan THE Coalition Government at Westminster has backed down on plans to tax the North Sea oil industry for every...
Salmond to open Pan Am files
ALEX SALMOND is set to spark another international row over Lockerbie this summer by forging ahead with plans to publish a secret report that...
Labour vote collapsing as voters turn to SNP, new poll shows
A new opinion poll conducted by TNS-BRMB shows that the SNP are on course to form the next government.The survey, with a sample of...
Alex Salmond for a second term
Newsnet Scotland is today backing Alex Salmond to be returned as First Minister on Thursday for the next 5-year Holyrood term while polls show...