Argyll College one of Scotland’s best places to work
When the first Scotland’s Best Workplaces Awards announced its results, Argyll College UHI – our local college – was one of the 25 finalists chosen from a large number of Scottish companies, both...
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Misleading instructions to voters: is Duncan Macintyre trawling for 4th...
A voter in the Oban North and Lorn ward has sent us the election leaflet of Independent candidate, Councillor Duncan Macintyre, with an anxious query arising from the instructions at its foot.The query...
View ArticleCandidate response to Argyll Rural Schools Network
Councillor Donald Kelly of the Argyll First group, Scottish Conservative and Unionist candidate standing for election in South Kintyre on 3rd May, has sent us a copy of the response he has made to the...
View ArticleArgyll First endorse Michael Breslin in Dunoon vote
The respected Argyll First Group of councillors, whose performance in their respective seats in South Kintyre, Kintyre and the Islands and Mid Argyll was a resounding vote of confidence from the...
View ArticleFirst Minister’s choice not to condemn mob behaviour proves Farage point
The UKIP Leader, Nigel Farage, an interesting and effective politician whatever one’s views on Europe, was the victim of a physically threatening and screaming mob in Edinburgh last night, forced to...
View ArticleCouncil Meeting: resounding endorsement of Council Leader as inclusive way...
[Updated below 22.30] The full meeting of Argyll Bute Council this morning, 27th June, spent 90 minutes debating the relative merits of a motion from the Argyll and Bute for Change group and an...
View ArticleWill Lib Dem peers in the House of Lords endorse the groping of women?
Today, 20th January, may see the ‘Fat Groper’ – the demonstrably fat, and allegedly groping Lord Rennard, challenge his party, the Liberal Democrats, its Leader and its standards of acceptable...
View ArticleDonors, public money and funding the independence referendum campaigns
Alastair Darling, frontman for the supposedly pro-union campaign that is, in every way, better described as the ‘No’ campaign, has been vociferous in recent days on the subject of the funding of the...
View ArticleGoing well: Western and Northern Isles’ three days of serious talks in London...
Following what are described as ‘two days of highly productive talks’ in October last year, the leaders of the three local authorities representing the Shetland, Orkney and Western Isles began three...
View ArticleTotty rocks as new FM elected at Holyrood
An early wrong note from Scotland’s new First Minister as her accession is accompanied by a fawning press release from the SNP’s media team, making sure the world knows exactly what Ms Sturgeon was...
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ONE VOTE for democracy and the freedom to be different
In Scotland this one General Election of 2015, 21 days away today, is a two-vote contest about three things:protecting the established internal unity of the little United Kingdom;avoiding the...
View ArticleTactical voting in Argyll and Bute: Alan Reid the most likely pro-union...
Scotland is now fourteen days away away from what is clearly the top of a ski-jump to a one-party-state.If the height and distance of the victory run the polls steadily predict for the SNP jumpers hits...
View ArticleMore poll evidence for SNP landslide in Scotland
Sky News’ Scottish Poll of Polls last night, 4th May 2015, showed the SNP on 50% and Labour on half of that, at 25%.The Independent, one of the most respected serious newspapers in the UK, took...
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