ReviewScotland

The Bank House, Fort Augustus

FORT AUGUSTUS is a beautiful Highland town with scenery to die for and is a favourite for walkers and campers. Littered with many bed and breakfasts and a helpful local tourist office to guide you, there are many places to ...
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This week's Legend

Kenneth MacLeay, portrait painter

BORN in Oban in 1822 Kenneth MacLeay became an accomplished artist and was a founder member of the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh.
He started painting for the Royal family in 1863 and became Queen Victoria's favourite painter, ...
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ObserveScotland

Enjoy our live video streaming webcam in the centre of Edinburgh.
The streaming webcam broadcasts a number of views overlooking Princes Street, the Mound, Edinburgh Castle and the famous Scott Monument. This webcam service was kindly provided by Camvista Webcams.

Provoke Scotland

Eurozone failure is not the whole story

by Brian Monteith
FOR GOVERNMENTS to maintain their dominance in the political arena they have to have a credible, believable explanation for the economic condition of the country in which they operate. The Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition has thus far constructed a ...

Article from Tuesday 1, May, 2012
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The prime minister’s finger is on the Scottish pulse

by Brian Monteith
THE Prime Minister was in Scotland last week, although I would be surprised if very many people noticed. In fact David Cameron is quite often in Scotland, probably more that Margaret Thatcher or John Major used to manage, despite the ...

Article from Monday 23, April, 2012
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With friends like these the union needs no enemies

by Brian Monteith
I HAD HOPED, nay expected, that today’s article would not be about the Scottish Conservatives. I had a number of other issues that I felt required some rumination from my liberal, counter-consensual standpoint. I’m thinking of Nicola Sturgeon’s ...

Article from Tuesday 27, March, 2012
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Will any party give a voice to windfarm protestors?

by Brian Monteith
IT WAS A COLD wet March night in St Andrews. Nothing unusual in that, except that 350 people had crammed into the town hall with standing room only while some forty or so were left outside as a meeting heard ...

Article from Tuesday 6, March, 2012
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The Scottish Kite runner

by Brian Monteith
I THINK I first saw the trick on television, probably on Sunday Night at the Palladium. I also recall seeing it on Bruce Forsyth's Generation Game. A man comes on with a long rod and spins a ...

Article from Tuesday 28, February, 2012
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Tory lucky bag will not be good enough

by Brian Monteith
THE PRIME MINISTER should be congratulated on his speech in Edinburgh last Thursday and given every encouragement to repeat the exercise, for while he struck the right tone there remains much unfinished business that only he can put right.
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Article from Monday 20, February, 2012
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Britain’s got talent so why limit ourselves to being only Scottish?

by Brian Monteith
 WHEN IT COMES to the debate about how an independent Scotland might fare there is, understandably, a tendency to focus on the economic prospects for Scots and Scotland. We all want to know how we, our families and our ...

Article from Wednesday 15, February, 2012
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Liz Smith anti-Scottish? Mike Russell should look in the mirror.

by Brian Monteith
WHEN A POLITICIAN resorts to calling an opponent unpatriotic it usually means the accuser has run out of arguments. Likewise, when the SNP Cabinet Secretary for education calls his Conservative opposite number anti-Scottish one has to suspect his arguments ...

Article from Wednesday 8, February, 2012
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Conservatives let Scotland down again

by Brian Monteith
IT MAY YET prove to be the biggest miscalculation by the prime minister in his dealings with Alex Salmond, but whatever influence closing the door on further powers for Holyrood beyond the Scotland Bill has on the constitutional referendum there ...

Article from Wednesday 1, February, 2012
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Not all Scots matter to the SNP

by Brian Monteith
WHY WILL Scots that stay in Blackburn, Lancashire, have no say about their destiny while Scots that stay in Blackburn, West Lothian, shall? The future of Scotland and Scottish people should, according to Alex Salmond’s Scottish Government, be limited ...

Article from Tuesday 24, January, 2012
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