http://news.scotsman.com/NewsFront.aspx?SectionID=7007 opinion-comment:Comment 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=7007&format=rss Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:26:41 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/comment/Mark-Smith-We-need-to.5845533.jp I WAS reviled when I read accounts of what happened in the car park of Edinburgh's Omni Centre in January, when two teenage girls attacked a 13-year-old girl they knew http://news.scotsman.com/comment/Mark-Smith-We-need-to.5845533.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/comment/-Tiffany-Jenkins-Check-the.5845703.jp AT THE heart of a battle over culture, ownership and identity are 93 kings and queens, bishops and pawns, intricately carved out of walrus ivory and whales' teeth. http://news.scotsman.com/comment/-Tiffany-Jenkins-Check-the.5845703.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/comment/Tery-Murden-Signs-good-for.5845513.jp WHEN he announced that he was stepping down from National Australia Bank, John Stewart said he was open-minded about any new job offers. That was precisely a year ago and it l http://news.scotsman.com/comment/Tery-Murden-Signs-good-for.5845513.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/comment/Stephen-McGinty-Sign-of-sad.5845631.jp IN 1973, Harlan Ellison, the science fiction writer with a voice like a ballpeen hammer on broken glass, wrote a disturbing short story called The Whimper of Whipped Dogs. It http://news.scotsman.com/comment/Stephen-McGinty-Sign-of-sad.5845631.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/comment/Platform-New-homes-industry-cannot.5845651.jp ARE HOME buyers willing to incur premiums of up to £8,000 for low-carbon living or "bolt-on renewables", which seem to offer little in the way of payback, may prove di http://news.scotsman.com/comment/Platform-New-homes-industry-cannot.5845651.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/comment/Hugh-Reilly-You39d-think-staff.5845699.jp IF ONE were to believe the hype, a new breed of teacher is required to deliver the Curriculum for Excellence. http://news.scotsman.com/comment/Hugh-Reilly-You39d-think-staff.5845699.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/comment/Analysis-Disorders-can-range-from.5845688.jp FOR most people, sleepwalking is a minor annoyance, affecting roughly 2 per cent of adults. But for some, the effects can range from the embarrassing to the outright dangerous http://news.scotsman.com/comment/Analysis-Disorders-can-range-from.5845688.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/comment/-Scotsman-Archive-Scottish-trade.5845704.jp A NOTE of optimism about Scotland's future was struck by Lieut.-Colonel, the Right Hon. D. J. Colville, M.P., Financial Secretary to the Treasury, speaking at the 255th an http://news.scotsman.com/comment/-Scotsman-Archive-Scottish-trade.5845704.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/comment/Cartoon.5845430.jp BRIAN ADCOCK http://news.scotsman.com/comment/Cartoon.5845430.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/comment/Labour-on-wrong-track-with.5842504.jp AT THE fag end of a parliament beset by scandal and crisis, with a discredited political class and unpopular Labour government, we are about to witness a flurry of constitutio http://news.scotsman.com/comment/Labour-on-wrong-track-with.5842504.jp Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/comment/-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/comment/-Passing-the-budget-buck.5842528.jp Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/comment/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/comment/Ian-Swanson-Despite--only.5843555.jp Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/comment/Susan-Morrison-It39s-time-we.5843542.jp I see it's the time of the year to start moaning about Christmas. It's too commercial, it's nothing to do with religion, it's just for the kids, it's a lot http://news.scotsman.com/comment/Susan-Morrison-It39s-time-we.5843542.jp Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/comment/Martin-Flanagan-New-threat-to.5842458.jp BUSINESS lending continues to look sickly. The patient may be keeping down a little dry toast and warm milk, but it sure isn't going for a jog around the block. http://news.scotsman.com/comment/Martin-Flanagan-New-threat-to.5842458.jp Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/comment/Platform-A-tie-does-more.5842542.jp THIS being Friday, it's a safe bet that many of the executive types going about their business on Edinburgh's fashionable George Street today will be missing one acces http://news.scotsman.com/comment/Platform-A-tie-does-more.5842542.jp Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/comment/Talk-of-the-Town-Flatulent.5843461.jp GALE warnings for the Cowgate as Norrie Rowan reveals that the life-size cow's bum on the wall of his Caves nightclub is ready to start passing wind again. http://news.scotsman.com/comment/Talk-of-the-Town-Flatulent.5843461.jp Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/comment/John-Gibson--Don39t-shout.5843544.jp START spreading the news, I'm clean off the booze (only kidding). Down to a sherry or two in isolation, it's that drastic. http://news.scotsman.com/comment/John-Gibson--Don39t-shout.5843544.jp Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/comment/-Scotsman-Archive-Scots-listeners.5842520.jp SIR, It must be patent to those who walk through life with ears attuned to public opinion that dissatisfaction exists among Scots listeners regarding the parsimonious propo http://news.scotsman.com/comment/-Scotsman-Archive-Scots-listeners.5842520.jp Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/comment/Frank-Boyle-cartoon--201109.5844279.jp Today... http://news.scotsman.com/comment/Frank-Boyle-cartoon--201109.5844279.jp Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:21:40 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/comment/Cartoon.5842744.jp A Green view http://news.scotsman.com/comment/Cartoon.5842744.jp Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:19:17 GMT