Month: April 2018
The Scottish Media For Dummies
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Source:: Wings Over Scotland The Scottish Media For Dummies A beginner’s guide to how it works: SUNDAY: The Sunday Times copies an SNP BAD nonsense story wholesale from the previous day’s Scottish Daily Mail. MONDAY: The Scottish Daily mail copies an SNP BAD nonsense story wholesale from the previous day’s Sunday Times. (The story itself being a worthless nano-crumb of utterly spurious cobblers from an unnamed source […] Read the full article:: Wings Over Scotland The Scottish Media For Dummies
BfS survey highlights significant market failures in the provision of local banking in Scotland
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Source:: Business for Scotland BfS survey highlights significant market failures in the provision of local banking in Scotland Businesses and local economies are being hammered by persistent bank closures across Scotland. According to a survey by Business for Scotland, 47% of business owners predicted that bank closures would have a negative impact on their business. This survey has highlighted significant market failures in the provision of local banking in Scotland. We anticipated that […] The post BfS survey highlights significant market failures in the provision of local banking in Scotland appeared first on Business for Scotland. Read the […]
A Hostile Environment for Yulia Skripal
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Source:: Craig Murray A Hostile Environment for Yulia Skripal An interesting facet of Theresa May’s “hostile environment” policy, aka institutionalised racism, is that Yulia Skripal will have to pay for her NHS emergency treatment because she was admitted to hospital. When the government announced its clampdown on use of the NHS by foreigners, including migrants and overseas students, it ended the provision of free emergency treatment for non-citizens in the UK, at the point of hospital admission – which in a real emergency is often required. I could see… Read the full article:: Craig Murray A Hostile Environment […]
May faces cabinet revolt over u-turn on Brexit customs union
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Source:: The National May faces cabinet revolt over u-turn on Brexit customs union THE Prime Minister faces open revolt from her hardline Brexiteer cabinet colleagues after reports emerged that she’s likely to perform a thumping great u-turn and keep Britain in the EU’s customs union. Read the full article:: The National May faces cabinet revolt over u-turn on Brexit customs union
Claims data from Moneysupermarket was used by Leave.EU
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Source:: The National Claims data from Moneysupermarket was used by Leave.EU DATA scraped from price comparison websites like moneysupermarket.com may have been used by a company owned by billionaire Brexit backer Arron Banks. Read the full article:: The National Claims data from Moneysupermarket was used by Leave.EU
Labour MP: Windrush policies are institutionalised racism
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Al-Assad: Britain Getting its Story Straight
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Source:: Random Public Journal Al-Assad: Britain Getting its Story Straight Tweet Follow @RPJblog By Jason Michael Okay, I can understand why folk are worried there’s something of the tinfoil hat about the eagerness of so many to accept the Russian claim that the video footage of an alleged chemical gas attack on civilians in the town of Douma in Syria was staged by British intelligence. Surely if a cruel Arab tyrant murdered our loved ones with chemical weapons we’d want people around the world to believe us and put pressure… Read the full article:: Random Public Journal Al-Assad: […]
Index on Disgrace
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Source:: Craig Murray Index on Disgrace The second half of my life has been a continual process of disillusionment with the institutions I used to respect. I suppose it started with the FCO, where I went from being Britain’s youngest ambassador to being sacked for opposing the use of intelligence from torture, at the same time having an insider view of the knowing lies about Iraqi WMD being used as a pretext for invasion and resource grab. I still had some residual respect for the BBC,… Read the full article:: Craig Murray Index on Disgrace
Scraping beneath the bottom of the Vow barrel
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Source:: Wee Ginger Dug Scraping beneath the bottom of the Vow barrel It’s the political corpse that keeps coming back from the dead. Every time you think it’s dead it pops back up again. It’s been battered over the head. It’s been blown apart. It’s been forensically dissected and the pieces packed up and sent into orbit around whatever planet it is that Wullie Rennie comes from. But it keeps on coming back again in a series of increasingly disappointing sequels. It’s come back to life more frequently than Christopher Lee in… Read the full article:: Wee Ginger […]
SNP Government to fund frontline efforts to help hardcore of street homeless while Ruth Davidson goes from baking show to celebrity list membership games and our media rats sniff the sewer air for SNP-bad aroma
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Source:: John Robertson SNP Government to fund frontline efforts to help hardcore of street homeless while Ruth Davidson goes from baking show to celebrity list membership games and our media rats sniff the sewer air for SNP-bad aroma (c) PA Once more, the Scottish Government acts to help the most vulnerable in our society in a way utterly alien to the thinking of Tories in England or Scotland. Ruth Davidson’s Boris-like, bullishness may have got her into a list of the supposed influential in British society, but she has no influence on matters of real concern in a modern […]
Due diligence
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Source:: Wings Over Scotland Due diligence Even in a sluggish news season, it’s somehow extra-dispiriting to see a once-august newspaper like the Sunday Times fill its pages by trying to flog its readers reheated old cobblers from the previous day’s Daily Mail. We’ve already shredded the towering stupidity of the story itself (the Times dutifully repeats all the exact same drivel about meal […] Read the full article:: Wings Over Scotland Due diligence
Ben Wizner: Edward Snowden didn’t expose mass NSA surveillance to make friends
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Source:: Bella Caledonia Ben Wizner: Edward Snowden didn’t expose mass NSA surveillance to make friends It can’t be underestimated the role that the ACLU plays in U.S. civil liberties and rights. Their mantra of defending these constitutional prerogatives for the American public is something they’re well–versed in fighting for, given the organisation is almost 100 years old. Listen to the full interview in our weekly Newsvoice Think podcast Founded in 1920 following the November […] Read the full article:: Bella Caledonia Ben Wizner: Edward Snowden didn’t expose mass NSA surveillance to make friends
A new channel backed by £30m? The BBC is selling Scotland short | Kevin McKenna
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Source:: Kevin McKenna A new channel backed by £30m? The BBC is selling Scotland short | Kevin McKenna Once the flagship news show is paid for there will be little left for original programmingMy most thrilling pre-millennial guilty pleasure was watching Dale Winton’s Supermarket Sweep on a day off. Being a young newspaper executive, I suppose I really ought to have been spending my time doing something more gainful such as catching up on the Sunday papers; perhaps attempting to tackle the Economist’s analysis of Bill Clinton’s US recovery programme for the purposes of borrowing from it in… […]
We’re all bastards from Newsnet now
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Source:: Wee Ginger Dug We’re all bastards from Newsnet now When independence campaigners who are compelled to pay a licence fee on pain of criminalisation complain about how the BBC doesn’t reflect their views, and demand that the Corporation refrain from its anti-independence bias, they’re accused of trying to silence journalists and being enemies of democracy. It now transpires that it’s the BBC which has been silencing journalists, and if silencing journalists makes you an enemy of democracy then that would be the BBC. The broadcaster and comedian Hardip Singh… Read the full article:: Wee Ginger Dug We’re […]
Another little difference that tells us something: SNP to improve disability terms for terminally ill.
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Source:: John Robertson Another little difference that tells us something: SNP to improve disability terms for terminally ill. (c) nen-press See this, from the Scottish Government, yesterday: ‘A new amendment has been tabled to the Social Security (Scotland) Bill, which would remove any time qualification for people who are terminally ill. Current UK legislation for disability benefits and Universal Credit specifies that the definition of terminal illness is someone likely to die within 6 months. Social Security Minister Jeane Freeman has put forward an amendment to ensure that it will be entirely down to the clinical judgement of… […]