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Stephen's Stepdown Shocker

Will the Real Labour Candidate Please Make Themselves Known

Banking Double Speak
The Supreme Court has ruled that earlier court rulings that allowed the Office of Fair Trading to investigate the fairness of charges for unauthorised overdrafts will be overturned. The Banks are happy, obviously. They have said there had been major changes to current account packages recently, and pointed out that these unplanned overdraft fees could be avoided.   I assume by that they mean that you can arrange to increase or arrange your overdraft facility to enable you to avoid having an unauthorised overdraft. Well I have attempted to do just that 3

Inverness Valentine's Night 50 Years Ago
Caron has been speculating a lot about the past Valentine's Night activities of various of our friends' parents in recent days. She even mentioned it when by anybody's reckoning it had nothing to do with marking one birth.   I'm wondering how she will of the goings on at a croft near her own home city Inverness by Ian and Mary 50 years ago on that fateful night?   Yes today we wish Charles Kennedy a happy 50th Birthday, fo

Queen's Speech Lie on Scotland
Only last week the Queen was made to read these words from her Government:"In Scotland, my government will take forward proposals in the final report of the commission on Scottish devolution."This was meant to be in the programme for Government before the next General Elec

Troubled Borders
Almost a year ago on the 26th November last year, Woolworths went into administration. Today there is more potentially sad news for the High Street, today there is the first sign that Borders, the bookseller, is faltering. Their website has stopped taking new orders and there are rumour that they do not have enough money to make it through to Christmas.   Borders of course suffers doubly, they are dwarfed as far as High Street bookselling goes by Waterstones' 303 stores to 45. Online they are obviou

Rupert's Wonky Newspaper Factory
Subrosa has highlighted the fact that Murdoch is looking to remove his news content from Google and place it exclusively on Microsoft's Bing search engine. Personally I think this is a retrograde step even if he is going to have pay only content on his news websites (another retrograde step).   During the expenses scandal in May I changed the details on my Jim Devine Google alert. I sent it not just to my Google address but also to my work email, I also changed the frequency from once a day to every mention. The reason for this was so th