EU regulation threatens Scottish tradition

According to a Scottish MEP the kiltmaking industry in Scotland could suffer because nobody can agree what a kilt is! Alyn Smith MEP said that “Defining what a Scottish Kilt is and then protecting that designation has never been more important for the Scottish Textile industry.” An Economic Impact Study by the Scottish Government has […]

Strip Searched

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 […]