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May 20, 2026
Miles Saltiel

Playing Brexit to the cheap seats

LAST NIGHT’S lost votes leave a sense that Boris has lost his way. He has no reason to blame Remainers for their stagey reluctance to

Jonathan Stanley

Medicine scaremongering must be challenged

DAVID NICHOLL is a Consultant Neurologist, well respected in the management of Parkinson’s Disease and Epilepsy. His clinical work is highly valued. He is not

Stuart Crawford

On being an Islay taxi driver

AS I MAY HAVE MENTIONED elsewhere already, I have been spending the summer months on Islay in the Inner Hebrides.  I was invited to the island

Miles Saltiel

Will it be a Brexit Biarritz?

FROM Saturday 24 to Monday 26 August the leaders of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States will meet in

Miles Saltiel

Is there a change in the Brexit weather?

IN One hundred days we pointed to “high” and “low” roads for the new government to follow to change the parliamentary arithmetic. This would be encouraging us

Miles Saltiel

Are we in a Brexit Silly Season?

AS WE ENTER the silly season of August, first let us examine the success of the new government in meeting the three objectives in my last column.

Miles Saltiel

Boris’s Golden Age playbook is opened…

LAST WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, Boris’ Downing Street speech followed the playbook set out in previous post, not so much “Silver Linings” as “Golden Age”. He reached

Linda Holt

Austerity? How the SNP holds back Westminster funding

Linda Holt article from Friday 21, June, 2019 AS THE CHANCES of a no-deal Brexit on October 31st grow inexorably, COSLA, the Council of Scottish Local Authorities, has just announced that the Scottish Government is awarding £1.6 million to councils for “resilience work” in relation to Brexit.  This follows a bid put by COSLA’s president […]

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