http://news.scotsman.com/NewsFront.aspx?SectionID=6990 Scottish politics and parliament news from all of Scotland's political parties including the Scottish National Party (SNP), Scottish Labour, Scottish Liberal Democrats and the Scottish Conservatives en-GB Copyright 2007, Johnston Press Plc jpnm.coordinator@jpress.co.uk jpnm.coordinator@jpress.co.uk NS http://news.scotsman.com/GetFeed.aspx?sectionid=6990&format=rss Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:10:44 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://news.scotsman.com/template/group/images/rss/NS_rss.gif http://news.scotsman.com 281 70 http://news.scotsman.com/politics/Lib-Dems-can-keep-fraudster39s.5845650.jp THE Liberal Democrats have been told they can keep a donation of £2.4 million from a convicted fraudster. http://news.scotsman.com/politics/Lib-Dems-can-keep-fraudster39s.5845650.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/politics/Top-EU-job-for-unknown.5845646.jp GORDON Brown has been accused of a stitch-up with French president Nicolas Sarkozy over the surprise appointment of Baroness Ashton as the European Union's foreign policy http://news.scotsman.com/politics/Top-EU-job-for-unknown.5845646.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/politics/Crackdown-on-drink-prices-39will.5845641.jp MINIMUM pricing for alcohol could harm non-alcohol retailers in the south of Scotland as consumers are lured across the Border to do their weekly shop, business leaders have w http://news.scotsman.com/politics/Crackdown-on-drink-prices-39will.5845641.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/politics/Care-contract-delays--39will.5846217.jp CITY leaders were today counting the cost of their defeat on care for the city's most vulnerable people. http://news.scotsman.com/politics/Care-contract-delays--39will.5846217.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/politics/House-prices-to-fall-in.5845629.jp HOUSE prices are predicted to fall next year as one of the country's biggest lenders warned of a rising unemployment prolonging the recession. http://news.scotsman.com/politics/House-prices-to-fall-in.5845629.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/politics/EU-united-for-once-in.5845647.jp GORDON Brown's team had been working for weeks on a back-up plan in the likely event that Tony Blair was vetoed for the top job. http://news.scotsman.com/politics/EU-united-for-once-in.5845647.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/politics/MP-is-accused-of-breaking.5845668.jp LIVINGSTON MP Jim Devine was criticised at a tribunal yesterday for "repeated failure to comply" with the hearing. http://news.scotsman.com/politics/MP-is-accused-of-breaking.5845668.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/politics/Underfire-MP-slams--39Harry.5845644.jp THE head of the Commons committee that deals with MPs' expenses abuse dismissed as "akin to Harry Potter" an allegation that his wife banned him from the constitu http://news.scotsman.com/politics/Underfire-MP-slams--39Harry.5845644.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/politics/Plans-for-funding-care-in.5845659.jp THE SNP has warned that UK government proposals for free personal care in England could result in Scottish pensioners losing £70 a week benefit. http://news.scotsman.com/politics/Plans-for-funding-care-in.5845659.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/politics/Tissue-of-lies-blew-apart.5845700.jp MICHAEL Brown had all the trappings of a highly successful international businessman – the private jet, an ocean-going yacht and a list of clients that he claimed included roy http://news.scotsman.com/politics/Tissue-of-lies-blew-apart.5845700.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/politics/Fox-Tories-will-withdraw-UK.5845888.jp THE Conservatives have committed to end 70 years of history by withdrawing all troops from Germany. http://news.scotsman.com/politics/Fox-Tories-will-withdraw-UK.5845888.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/politics/MP-Jim-Devine--challenges.5846166.jp LIVINGSTON MP Jim Devine has challenged an unfair dismissal claim made by a former employee but has been criticised for his failure to comply with the hearing. http://news.scotsman.com/politics/MP-Jim-Devine--challenges.5846166.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/politics/Campaigners-share-tips-at-Parliament.5846219.jp COMMUNITY groups from across Scotland were attending a one-day conference at the Scottish Parliament today to learn about effective campaigning. http://news.scotsman.com/politics/Campaigners-share-tips-at-Parliament.5846219.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/politics/School-use-report-due.5846137.jp A NEW report is to be presented to councillors on how to make more use of schools. http://news.scotsman.com/politics/School-use-report-due.5846137.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/politics/Ministers-urged-to-cut-public.5842602.jp SCOTTISH ministers are under pressure to cut back on high earners' salaries in the public sector after it emerged that 1,600 on the payroll in Scotland have six-figure http://news.scotsman.com/politics/Ministers-urged-to-cut-public.5842602.jp Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/politics/Britain39s-39lost-generation39-as-three.5842537.jp UNEMPLOYMENT is expected to hit three million in just over a year, according to stark figures which showed the UK was in line for a slow and painful recovery. http://news.scotsman.com/politics/Britain39s-39lost-generation39-as-three.5842537.jp Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/politics/Blair-beaten--as-Belgian.5842594.jp GORDON Brown insisted last night that Britain would remain a powerful voice in Brussels after Labour peer Baroness Ashton was appointed as the European Union's first forei http://news.scotsman.com/politics/Blair-beaten--as-Belgian.5842594.jp Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/politics/Coalition-vote-defeat-leaves-Edinburgh.5843570.jp PLANS to re-tender the care services provided to some of the Capital's most vulnerable residents have been dramatically put on hold following a marathon council meeting. http://news.scotsman.com/politics/Coalition-vote-defeat-leaves-Edinburgh.5843570.jp Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/politics/Councils-39could-make-killing-on.5842583.jp A SENIOR Scottish education figure says councils could "make a killing" by adopting East Lothian's controversial trust schools scheme. http://news.scotsman.com/politics/Councils-39could-make-killing-on.5842583.jp Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/politics/MSP-Margaret-Smith-defends-expenses.5843489.jp A CITY MSP put in a mileage claim for 40p for travelling just one mile between neighbouring schools. http://news.scotsman.com/politics/MSP-Margaret-Smith-defends-expenses.5843489.jp Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/politics/-The-full-list-of.5842570.jp BRIAN Adam (SNP) Aberdeen N £22,439.79 http://news.scotsman.com/politics/-The-full-list-of.5842570.jp Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/politics/-Passing-the-budget-buck.5842528.jp IN RECENT months, an uneasy sense has grown of a country trapped in two parallel worlds. There is the world that worries over jobs, household budgets, growing debt, meagre sa http://news.scotsman.com/politics/-Passing-the-budget-buck.5842528.jp Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/politics/Ian-Swanson-Despite--only.5843555.jp SCOTLAND'S future got just one sentence in the Queen's Speech – and even then there was no promise of legislation. Amid the pomp and circumstance of the state opening http://news.scotsman.com/politics/Ian-Swanson-Despite--only.5843555.jp Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/politics/Sale-of-buildings-to-plug.5843509.jp MORE than 20 buildings are to be sold off by West Lothian Council in a bid to tackle a £45 million budget black hole. http://news.scotsman.com/politics/Sale-of-buildings-to-plug.5843509.jp Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/politics/Too-few-Scots-for-own.5842565.jp THE Scottish population is not large enough to provide the number of organs needed for transplant operations, and an independent Scotland would have to remain in the UK-wide p http://news.scotsman.com/politics/Too-few-Scots-for-own.5842565.jp Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/politics/Calls-grow-for-updates-as.5842524.jp PRESSURE for public updates on the Lockerbie bomber's medical condition intensified last night. http://news.scotsman.com/politics/Calls-grow-for-updates-as.5842524.jp Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/politics/Children-39simulating-TV-sex-acts39.5842534.jp CHILDREN as young as five are simulating sex acts at school as a result of the pornography they are seeing on satellite television and the internet, a senior Labour MP claimed http://news.scotsman.com/politics/Children-39simulating-TV-sex-acts39.5842534.jp Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/politics/Expenses-watchdog-chief-quits.5842747.jp THE MP in charge of the Commons sleaze watchdog stood down last night, pending an inquiry into his second-home allowance claims. http://news.scotsman.com/politics/Expenses-watchdog-chief-quits.5842747.jp Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/politics/New--double-act-.5843440.jp EUROPE'S new political double act faced a baptism of fire today over their credentials for two of the most important EU posts ever created. http://news.scotsman.com/politics/New--double-act-.5843440.jp Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/politics/SNP-pressed-to-end-39boycott39.5842546.jp SCOTTISH Secretary Jim Murphy has called on the Scottish Government to end its "boycott" of plans to devolve more powers to Holyrood. http://news.scotsman.com/politics/SNP-pressed-to-end-39boycott39.5842546.jp Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT