Dubai World asset sale includes Inchcape Shipping Services of Campbeltown origin
Istithmarh, the investment wing of £14BN debt-laden Dubai World, the world’s largest independent marine management company and owner of the QE2 – now also likely to be sold, has already begun the sale...
View ArticleVancouver 2010: Scotland posted missing
‘Why is Scotland not here?’, a friend in Vancouver asked me at the end of the first week of the Winter Olympics. I explained that we were there: that nineteen members of the fifty- two strong British...
View ArticleArgyll-shot remake, The Eagle of the Ninth, in line for Cannes?
The remake of The Eagle of the Ninth, based on the 1954 book by Rosemary Sutcliff, is in post-production amidst rumours that it is likely to be invited to show at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival this...
View ArticleSturgeon at Westminster Foreign Affairs Select Committee yesterday
The outcome of this was a draw – not necessarily an honourable draw as Nicola Sturgeon was clearly busking her way through many of the questions asked [such as whether or not an independent Scotland...
View ArticleFirst Minister tells Sky that an independent Scotland will be England’s...
Alex Salmond must have been taking lessons in emotional intelligence from Sarah Ferguson, if an interview he has given to Sky’s Dermot Murnaghan for airing at 10.00 today, Sunday 26th January, is...
View ArticleSillars no authority but authentic voice of ‘Yes’ culture of intimidation and...
[Updated below 14th September] Jim Sillars has no power to put into action one iota of what he threatened last night and withdrew this morning – with the hilarious cover story that he had foamed at the...
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