Actually we were probably getting a bit fed up with Pippa to be honest. (Sister of the Duchess of Cambridge in case you have been living in a cave for the last couple of years…) So it was very timely that Baroness Thatcher’s granddaughter stepped up to the lectern and taken our breath away. Not […]
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At dinner parties it is one of the subjects you should avoid. But this week, more than any other week it is the subject on everyone’s minds and lips. The General Election campaign has only two more days to run. So which party are you going to vote for? Oh sorry, you haven’t made up […]
In Edinburgh we have wonderful buildings and monuments. The city is a World Heritage Site due to the high quality of architecture and the detailed planning used in developing the New Town area. One of the ways that the city retains this status is the rigorous planning process. This is a function of the City […]
Sir Fred Goodwin, erstwhile head of Royal Bank of Scotland and now public enemy number 1, has got a new job, The Scotsman reports today. The trouble is, that since he already has a sizeable pension fund from his days with RBS, there are those who think he should not really do anything except go […]
One of the other outlets which I contribute to is Women’s Views on News. Here is the press release which we put out recently. Add the site to your favourites or sign up for an email update. Fed up with the bias towards men in the news? So are we. Which is why we (a […]
Is this an invasion of my privacy? Does this contravene my (newly acquired) human rights in terms of the Human Rights Act 1998 or indeed any rights which I may have under the European Convention of Human Rights? Travelling from Edinburgh to Brussels last week we passed briefly through Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam. This is one of the world’s airports where […]
