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Hope over Fear
The First Minister visited the Nigg Energy Park in the constituency recently and saw the turbines that are bound for the world’s first large scale tidal wind farm. This will also be sited in the Far North; the MeyGen project,…
When the facts change what do you do?
“When the facts change, I change my mind, what do you do Sir?” John Maynard Keynes is reported to have said. Let’s just recall the feelings on the morning of September 19 2014. Despair, depression and dejection were the…
The Cheviot, The Stag and the Black, Black Oil
The day had come. I had waited 43 years to see this play. Being 13 at the time I was just too young to go see it. It had a lot to live up to. I had heard about it…
Status Quo Vadis?
The above is an amalgam of two Latin phrases I cobbled up in an idle moment. Status Quo is “as things were before”, and Quo Vadis is “Whither goest thou?” Sums up Westminster. Well at least we know where…
Where are we?
The United Kingdoms of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland had an advisory referendum in June on whether to leave the European Union. 51.89% of the public who bothered to vote, did so to leave. 48.11% of these voters wanted…