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Salmond strikes
Alex Salmond will launch fresh legal action “as a direct result of the conduct” of the permanent secretary Leslie Evans around her role in the handling of harassment complaints against him.
After continual cover-ups and fudges the pursuit of the truth continues. We deserve so much better from this government.
Keith Runner
Time to give this a rest and give your £500,000 of taxpayers’ money to charity.
Janette Sneddon
Well, it looks as though he is after the permanent secretary Evans and the alleged leaker.
David Stafford Hell hath no fury like a king of fish scorned
Davy Daniels Crockett
Let us open
The Scottish Government’s blanket ban on church services as part of its Covid regulations has been ruled unlawful in Scotland’s highest civil court.
This priest [Canon Tom White] should be thanked for bringing to our attention the fact that the relevant law urgently needs to be updated.
Harold Constantine
Does that mean the churches can claim compensation for plate collection loses from the SNP government?
Martin Allan
Maybe if the churches paid tax they'd have a chance, however I would not hold my breath.
Derek Mcvie
Churches should rather be turned into concert halls for the excellent acoustics they have (pipe organs are a plus), arts centres and/or libraries.
Tony Bittner-collins
So we can all get together and give each other Covid.
Tam Mcguinness
Live music is my religion.
Kristian Cooper
Flying air?
Ryanair boss Michael O’leary said Scots could book flights abroad this summer with “reasonable confidence” because high vaccination rates “must result in the removal of restrictions”.
Since when did a Ryanair lackey attain the status of medical professional and government spokesperson?
Juli Harris I’m reasonably confident that if you book with Ryanair and the flight’s cancelled the only thing that will be departing is your money.
Gordon Devlin
Holiday in the UK, help the economy.
No chance.
Lynn Mcdowall
Fiona Murray What's wrong with holidaying in Bonnie Scotland?
Robert Silverman
I love living here, but I need a break from all the politics.
Martin Gray
No danger would I be booking with Ruinair!
Nicola Goodfellow Milton
Ryanair will be selling disposable face masks for €15.
Giovanni Gentles
Cash grab
Ministers from the devolved nations have accused the UK Government of betraying promises made during the Brexit referendum by diverting cash away from devolved governments into the Levelling Up Fund.
Good. Might mean the money in Scotland will actually be accounted for instead of disappearing into a black hole in Holyrood.
Llorna Sshiels
There’s an interesting parallel with the Scottish Government’s approach to Education funding. Responsibility for running schools is “devolved” to elected local authorities which are entitled to have distinctive approaches to dealing with issues such as the attainment gap and the effects of deprivation in our schools. Head Teachers have had significant control of their budgets for decades, but operate within council priorities. For the last five years or so the Scottish
Government has chosen to bypass – and potentially undermine – these democratic structures to pass very significant sums of money straight to schools.
Willie Campbell
UK investing in the people and infrastructure of the UK what’s the problem?
Jeffrey Bailey
Are Whitehall priorities not UK priorities? While the devolved assemblies can look after internal priorities the UK can consider interconnectivity between the different parts of the UK. Its not a competition
– the different parts of UK government (central and devolved administrations) should be working together. Nationalists don't like to hear it, but seven of the nine English regions actually have larger populations than Scotland. The UK government needs to take account of the needs of all areas.