Whilst a foolish member of the Labour-run Aberdeen Council proposes to ‘ban’ Alex Salmond and his government ministers from council esta...

This is Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab photographed during a school trip to England in 2002 from his native Nigeria. He is the man whose attempt ...

I don't usually recommend individual posts as my day would be consumed by publishing, but Guthrum of Old Holborn fame, has a post about ...

UPDATE I posted this earlier but I would like to bring your attention to a post by Peter Curran who write the Moridura blog.  In his latest...

Today's Scotsman has a dreadfully cheap headline 'Minister provokes nuclear war over Scotland's energy future.'  Aside from...

GORDON Brown is due to host a meeting of the UK Cabinet in Glasgow on Thursday 16th April (this week). A DEMONSTRATION IN GLASGOW 15th-16th ...

Now that the great and the good and the not so great and the not so good have left, the dissection of the G20 communiques begins.  The best ...

The past couple of days I've read some of the wit going round about Jacqui Smith's husband and have to admit, some of it was very cl...

A Politician of Integrity I make no apology for taking the following directly from Scunnert Nation's blog . 'The governor of the Sta...

UPDATE Some of you will know that since my initial post the Big Lottery Fund offered to fund the trip to Normandy for the 65th anniversary ...

This is a video made for America but oh so applicable to the UK. A must see. Courtesy of Old Holborn

As my regular readers know I seldom quote other blogs without comment.  This post from Craig Murray requires no comment apart from the fact...

The past few days I've been thinking how to avoid  the media overkill of the saviour of the world and of course the excuse we have for a...

A cartoonist's idea of British polygamy My definition of bigamy or polygamy is 'a hetrosexual male's fetish to publicly show his...

The news wires were full of the return of Binyam Mohamed to Britain yesterday.  He alleges he was subject to 'medieval torture' by t...

Typical summer photograph isn't it - one of my holiday snaps - we all have them. The UK government didn't know about this holiday of...

Update :  "With ironic understatement, a Downing Street spokesman yesterday left little doubt that the remarks had caused some irritati...

It's not often I read the Daily Record but this comment (or perhaps diatribe) by Joan Burnie  sums up my opinion of the British Broadcas...

Overnight the BBC reported there had been movement, between the UK government and the Scottish government, regarding the inquests of Scots...