A fantastic photographic record of George W. Bush’s presidency, posted by Errol Morris at the New York Times.

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Another interesting article by George Monbiot in The Guardian which discusses the current economic and future environmental crises in terms of single term political goals.

Politics is the art of shifting trouble from the living to the unborn.

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As I was saying in my response to Simon’s post about SNP priorities, dualling the A9 is not the first priority, getting freight off the roads and onto the railways should take precedence. It appears that they read my blog!

It was announced this week that the Scottish Government is giving funding to Hauliers to [...]

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Simon has been writing over at his blog about the fact that we are now one year on from the election of the SNP (minority) government, and what the have and have not achieved.

I must say, I have to disagree with some of his priorities…

Scrapping the Edinburgh Airport Rail Link (EARL)—this was a great idea. [...]

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It’s an unusual position to be in, but tomorrow I will be protesting with the Scottish Government against the replacement of the UK’s nuclear arsenal—Trident—our very own WMD.

I don’t support every policy of the SNP, but I admire Alex Salmond for standing up and voicing the opinion of the Scottish People—that we do not want [...]

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