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13 Jan

Breaking - Nicola Sturgeon's government has spent more than £50,000 "preparing" civil servants to give evidence about the Alex Salmond affair at hearings where they suffered "collective memory loss", it has emerged.
Information obtained by The Daily Telegraph shows that

by early November, £54,378 of taxpayers’ money had been spent on external assistance to help senior civil servants get ready for appearances at a Holyrood inquiry.
The Scottish Government refused to say which organisation or individual had been hired, but members of the

committee branded the cost “astonishing” and said it raised questions over whether witnesses had been “coached”.
Staff logs released in response to a Freedom of Information request also show that witnesses spent several hours preparing for sessions, only to then face criticism

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@ScotiaIndyref2

13 Jan

What's in a name ?
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Like many other church lands throughout the country at that time, some of the possessions described in the Inquest had probably passed into the hands of laymen, but were no doubt restored, as most of the lands specified can be identified among those

subsequently belonging to the bishopric. Those adjoining Glasgow, so far as identified, were situated to the east of the Molendinar Burn. It seems to have been considered unnecessary to mention the site of the Cathedral and Glasgow itself, unless such possessions are included

under designations that have not been recognised. All around Glasgow the lands not belonging to the Church seem to have been part of the royal domain, and the whole of that territory was disposed of by King David
before the close of his reign. Rutherglen was erected by him into

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Clem Fandango

@ScotiaIndyref2

13 Jan

For more generations than is comfortable to recall, Scottish servicemen/women have been at the forefront of the UKs projection of power. It was necessary in 1939-45 war against fascism but before that it was often to advance or defend British imperialism. The sentimentality

exhibited at any threat to the Scottish regiments, shows the Scottish mind still engaged with the idea of hard power. The new independent Scotland , if it wants to be influential in the International community should be projecting soft power. Power that delivers

humanitarian aid is preferable to power that delivers a bullet from a gun.

Juxtaposed to that military tendency, there is a broad streak of idealism in the Scots which makes them ready to respond to those in need or danger across the world. This policy gives expression to

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Clem Fandango

@ScotiaIndyref2

8 Jan

Alex Salmond has launched an extraordinary personal attack on Nicola Sturgeon, describing her testimony to the inquiry into sexual assault claims made against him as “simply untrue”.

In his submission to the inquiry, the former first minister said that Ms Sturgeon had misled

the Scottish parliament and broken the ministerial code which, if he is proven to be correct, would almost certainly spell the end of her political career.

Mr Salmond said that the breaches included a failure to inform the civil service in good time of her meetings with

him, and allowing the Scottish government to contest a civil court case against him despite having had legal advice that it was likely to collapse.
The allegations against Ms Sturgeon, who replaced Mr Salmond as first minister and leader of the SNP after the 2014 independence

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Clem Fandango

@ScotiaIndyref2

7 Jan

1888

I WAS born at a place called Plean, in the parish of Ninians, in the shire of Stirling, where my mother's forbears were residenters for generations unknown, although I can only trace them to the days of Charles the Second. The name of my mother was Paterson, her mother's name

was Square. She was the daughter of Ellshander, or
Alexander Square, the companion of John Balfour of Burley in his Covenanting campaigns; My father's name was Dugald Cameron, he came from a place called
Braemar; his mother's name was Stewart. The earliest account I can give

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Clem Fandango

@ScotiaIndyref2

6 Jan

As noted by Scottish historian Michael Lynch, there has been a ‘remarkable advance of knowledge [on Scotland’s history] over the course of the past generation’. Equally notable have been the efforts made by leading historians such as Lynch to make this knowledge

accessible to the wider public. Such efforts have led to the publication of several excellent one-volume histories of Scotland, including Lynch’s own Scotland: A New History (first published in 1991), R. A. Houston and W. W. J. Knox’s New Penguin History of Scotland (2001)

and the updated edition of Christopher Harvie’s Scotland: A Short History (2014). Concerning Scotland’s history since its Union with England, Tom Devine’s The Scottish Nation: A Modern History (2012) is invaluable. Much less numerous are the one-volume editions of Scottish

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