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Today’s Thinking

Donside by-election points to 2016 for leaders

Columnist EUAN MCCOLM
 WHAT’S it been? A year? Certainly seems like it. I’m struggling to remember a time before the Aberdeen Donside by-election campaign, with all of its clashes over the chaotic Haudagain Roundabout, where motorists go to starve to death. ...

Article from Thursday 20, June, 2013
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Co-operative? By no means mutual

Columnist BILL JAMIESON
IT TAKES PRIDE in mutuality. It extols its social conscience. It records high customer satisfaction scores. Its corporate social responsibility index is at record levels. And it boasts the accolade of “Europe’s most sustainable bank”. Of whom do I ...

Article from Wednesday 19, June, 2013
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Big Pharma, Big Tobacco, Big Government have one thing in common.......

Columnist ALEX MASSIE
IMAGINE THERE was a widely consumed product that, however enjoyable, was undeniably associated with diseases that might kill as many as one in three of those who consumed it regularly. Then imagine an alternative product that enjoyed many of the ...

Article from Tuesday 18, June, 2013
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Just who are Scottish and British?

Columnist DAVID TORRANCE
ON TUESDAY I was in Swindon for a family funeral. I’d only met my great aunt Betty once, in the year 2000 when I was studying journalism at Cardiff University, but I remember her being great fun; feeding me and ...

Article from Monday 17, June, 2013
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Iain Banks: a distinctive voice I'll miss

Columnist MR EUGENIDES
I'M NOT AN emotional man, and I seldom cry, except occasionally when I ask a girl out on a date and she phones the police. But I’ll admit to coming close, very close, last Sunday night when I heard the ...

Article from Saturday 15, June, 2013
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BBC Question Time? If the answers are that stupid..........

Columnist BRIAN MONTEITH
I USED TO HAVE a foam brick. It looked like a brick, but it didn’t walk or talk like a brick. It was too light for one thing and you could scrunch it up. Crucially, it did ...

Article from Friday 14, June, 2013
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How many more issues can Salmond sell-out on?

Columnist EUAN MCCOLM
YOU don’t have to have been around the Scottish political scene for long to know how much the SNP has changed. In a remarkably short of period of time, the party has transformed. The confident team at the top ...

Article from Thursday 13, June, 2013
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The rage of Mark Rutter

Columnist BILL JAMIESON
MARK RUTTER was a man who felt cheated. A day in August in Dalkeith last year may have started well for him. But that’s not the way it ended. He went into the local branch of William Hill for ...

Article from Wednesday 12, June, 2013
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Ruth Davidson will need to thwart the old guard

Columnist ALEX MASSIE
RUTH DAVIDSON'S speech to the Tory conference in Stirling last week had its moments. Davidson's position is not an easy one. She is, after all, responsible for a party divided between wings represented by Murdo Fraser and Lord Forsyth. ...

Article from Tuesday 11, June, 2013
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Tory Game of Thrones makes for an interesting conference

Columnist DAVID TORRANCE
A FEW SAYS BEFORE the Scottish Conservative Party conference kicked off in Stirling, Murdo Fraser, the nearly-man of Tory politics, tweeted about “All that plotting, backstabbing and graphic sex, its just like Game of Thrones. But with more dragons.” It ...

Article from Monday 10, June, 2013
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