Iain Macwhirter on the cost of the war for Britain
Look, I too am opposed to the death penalty. But sometimes even I wonder if there should be an exception made; for Tony Blair. After all, there we were last week condemning Saddam Hussein for causing the deaths of tens,...
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HOLYROOD COMMENTARY: Iain Macwhirter
The authentication of North Korea’s nuclear test by the American authorities last week confirmed that we are in a new and disturbing atomic age. No longer is the use of nuclear weapons as a means of resolving international disputes made...
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Iain Macwhirter on Britain and the US' struggle to find a retreat from Iraq
So that’s it then. We’re pulling out of Iraq within the next, ooh, 18 months or so, before we become a “provocation”. So said the prime minister last week, echoing the dramatic change of tone from the White House. Funny,...
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Iain Macwhirter on a lack of rational thinking
YOU don’t have to be mad to work here but it helps. The British Cabinet, it seems, was riddled with mental distress throughout the course of the Iraq war. It wasn’t just Gordon Brown who had psychological flaws. Alastair Campbell,...
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Holyrood commentary: Iain Macwhirter
The Scottish parliament discovered climate change this week – or rather the denial of it. The Futures Forum had decided to invite one of the last of the climate-change sceptics, the Danish statistician Bjorn Lomborg, to address an invited audience...
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Iain Macwhirter on why Labour is tearing itself apart
Talk about open goals. David Cameron has been handed the easiest job in politics this week in Bournemouth as he makes his first annual conference address to the Conservatives as their leader. All he needs to do is stand there,...
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Iain Macwhirter on a plan for peace in the middle east
FIRST Minister Jack McConnell can’t win. If he speaks about important moral issues like nuclear defence, he is attacked for getting above himself. If he avoids the issue, on the grounds that defence is not a responsibility of the Scottish...
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HOLYROOD COMMENTARY: Iain Macwhirter
In future, the Scottish Tories are going to have to learn to love homosexuals. Well, that’s surely the implication of the historic meeting between the Conservative Party chairman, Francis Maude, and the gay pressure group Stonewall on Friday. I wonder...
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Holyrood commentary: Iain Macwhirter on the failure of Scotland’s small parties
There’s only one question at the start of this crucial election campaign: have they got the bottle? Do Scottish opposition parties really want to be in government after the Holyrood elections in May? I’m afraid that the short answer...
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Iain Macwhirter on the PM’s maddening long goodbye
So, now we know. Tony Blair isn’t going, according to The Times on Friday. Oh yes he is, according to The Guardian on the same day. The PM has decided it would be destabilising to give a timetable for his...
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