Thursday, April 30, 2009

Breathtaking hypocrisy

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Council Meeting now finished - concluded around 4pm. The one significant debate was on trams - here's a quick summary (I'm paraphra...

Abuse of power

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Four deputations have been turned away from today's Full Council Meeting - yes, told to come back to another Committee in a few weeks t...

Stunning political leadership?

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I have to tell you about a set of "questions/answers" coming up later at today's Full Council Meeting (see item 5.8) ... one ...
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Wednesday, April 29, 2009

More on the CPZ proposals ...

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I should have mentioned in yesterday's post , that I will be attending the Transport Committee Meeting at 10am next Tuesday - and any m...
Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Throwing the baby out with the bathwater ...

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I've mentioned the very local parking woes affecting parts of the Fountainbridge/Craiglockhart Ward on several occasions before - see he...

Shock, horror - Councillor suspended

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This event was the lead 'Scottish Politics' story for most of yesterday evening, and early this morning, on the BBC Scotland Politi...
Monday, April 27, 2009

Full Council week

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As mentioned last week , its April's Full Council meeting this coming Thursday - main agenda can be found here ... ... difficult to jud...
Sunday, April 26, 2009

Allotment update

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Managed to get an all-too-brief spell down at the allotment earlier this afternoon ... bright, clear weather. And, as you can see, lots of g...
Saturday, April 25, 2009

Scottish Mining Museum

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Made our first ever visit to the Scottish Mining Museum earlier this afternoon - thoroughly enjoyed by all of the family, even the adults! ...
Friday, April 24, 2009

It's all relevant

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Totally shocked at the lack of prominence for this story in most mainstream press today :-( --- and not even much mention of this :-(( Sor...

Tram Line 1b cancelled

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Well, hardly a surprise, but not good that the report which confirms the 'shelving' (in reality, its about to be cancelled!) of Tra...
Thursday, April 23, 2009

Blinded by ideology?

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You have to give it to the Nationalists here in Scotland - they know how to whinge! Strip all the hyperbole away and here are the facts on t...

Budget choices ...

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A difficult day for the Chancellor - to say the least. But given all the circumstances --- the majority of which are impacting the wider wo...

Privatisation; by any other name?

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I've never been one who believes in the "all public good" - "all private bad" philosophy of service-delivery, but wh...
Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Budget day ...

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UK Budget day. I'm going to resist the temptation for instant pontification and pause for a day ... ... before posting further thoughts ...
Tuesday, April 21, 2009

STUC conference

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Up in Perth this afternoon for the Scottish Trades Union Congress ( STUC ) conference ... ... speaking at a fringe event on "Transpo...
Monday, April 20, 2009

Legislation-light?

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I've mentioned before that, whilst I'm no fan of "legislation for legislation's sake", the situation at Holyrood rece...
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Atagoal: Cat's Magical Forest

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Junior has a bit of a thing for Manga comics, manga films --- manga absolutely anything actually (think I've 'mentioned' it b...