http://news.scotsman.com/NewsFront.aspx?SectionID=7074 opinion 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=7074&format=rss Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:26:13 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/opinion/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/opinion/Mark-Smith-We-need-to.5845533.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/opinion/-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/opinion/-Tiffany-Jenkins-Check-the.5845703.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/opinion/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/opinion/Tery-Murden-Signs-good-for.5845513.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/opinion/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/opinion/Stephen-McGinty-Sign-of-sad.5845631.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/opinion/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/opinion/Platform-New-homes-industry-cannot.5845651.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/opinion/Teachertraining-review-risks-being-.5845672.jp AMID the continuing debate over Scottish education, one aspect has, until now, been overlooked: the question of how to train the teachers. http://news.scotsman.com/opinion/Teachertraining-review-risks-being-.5845672.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/opinion/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/opinion/Hugh-Reilly-You39d-think-staff.5845699.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/opinion/Why-Calman-proposals-will-wither.5845535.jp YOUR headline "Tories told to come clean on Scots tax" (19 November) should have been addressed to the Labour Party in relation to their intention to introduce http://news.scotsman.com/opinion/Why-Calman-proposals-will-wither.5845535.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/opinion/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/opinion/Analysis-Disorders-can-range-from.5845688.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/opinion/EU-leaders-installed-by-backroom.5845693.jp INCREDULITY has greeted news of the appointments of Baroness Ashton to the post of EU high representative on foreign affairs and the Belgian Herman Van Rompuy to the post http://news.scotsman.com/opinion/EU-leaders-installed-by-backroom.5845693.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/opinion/Europe39s-decision.5845541.jp ONCE again, the EU has delivered a mystifying decision. The appointment of the unknown, never elected anywhere British baroness to the top foreign affairs post (your rep http://news.scotsman.com/opinion/Europe39s-decision.5845541.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/opinion/Notes-from-a-long-long.5845526.jp FROM Room 3504, Deck 15 Fore Section West 08, Oasis of the Seas, Monday: Having a wonderful time in the biggest ocean liner of them all. Weather fine as we enter the Azores. C http://news.scotsman.com/opinion/Notes-from-a-long-long.5845526.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/opinion/Rail-vandalism.5845669.jp IT is almost 41 years since I took the Border folk's petition against closure of the Waverley line to 10 Downing Street. It was a main line which ran from Edinburgh throug http://news.scotsman.com/opinion/Rail-vandalism.5845669.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/opinion/Harsh-lessons.5845538.jp With the Curriculum for Excellence, we are about to dismantle what has been a decent educational system and replace it with a portfolio of utterly imbecilic outcomes. Just ima http://news.scotsman.com/opinion/Harsh-lessons.5845538.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/opinion/-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/opinion/-Scotsman-Archive-Scottish-trade.5845704.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/opinion/World-Cup-cheat.5845536.jp JUST when you think football can sink no lower in terms of cheating and play-acting, Thierry Henry confounds us by proving it can (your report, 20 November). http://news.scotsman.com/opinion/World-Cup-cheat.5845536.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/opinion/United-culture.5845539.jp NANCY Nicolson (Letters, 9 November) explains the stushie being made by Caithness Councillors over Gaelic road signs as being caused by misgovernment from outside. http://news.scotsman.com/opinion/United-culture.5845539.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/opinion/Hovering-doubts.5845528.jp NO doubt there are many points in favour of a ferry/hovercraft crossing between Fife and Edinburgh, especially taking account of passenger figures during the two-week trial pe http://news.scotsman.com/opinion/Hovering-doubts.5845528.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/opinion/Poor-prognosis.5845529.jp NO-one suffering from a terminal disease is ever told: "You have exactly 92 days to live." They – or, more likely, their relatives – will be told the prognosis is that http://news.scotsman.com/opinion/Poor-prognosis.5845529.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/opinion/Family-business.5845527.jp WHY all the fuss about MSPs (or MPs) employing relations (your report, 20 November)? Many self-employed people of small businesses employ their wife/daughter/ http://news.scotsman.com/opinion/Family-business.5845527.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/opinion/Figures-off-target.5845540.jp SO Robert Veitch thinks Scotland couldn't afford armed forces (Letters, 17 November). http://news.scotsman.com/opinion/Figures-off-target.5845540.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/opinion/Dim-idea.5845524.jp THE problem with low-energy light bulbs (your report, 20 November) is not just that they become dimmer with use, but that they fail to emit three of the essential colo http://news.scotsman.com/opinion/Dim-idea.5845524.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/opinion/-Point-of-view-Voice.5845532.jp GORDON Brown insults Catherine Ashton by suggesting that, as EU high representative, she will be Britain's voice at the heart of Europe. This is like saying that Thomas Be http://news.scotsman.com/opinion/-Point-of-view-Voice.5845532.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/opinion/-Point-of-view-Shame.5845537.jp ALLAN Massie wants drunkenness to be a source of shame (Opinion, 17 November). I agree entirely, but to many people feelings of "shame" are always seen as a p http://news.scotsman.com/opinion/-Point-of-view-Shame.5845537.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/opinion/Cartoon.5845430.jp BRIAN ADCOCK http://news.scotsman.com/opinion/Cartoon.5845430.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/opinion/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/opinion/Labour-on-wrong-track-with.5842504.jp Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/opinion/-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/opinion/-Passing-the-budget-buck.5842528.jp Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/opinion/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/opinion/Ian-Swanson-Despite--only.5843555.jp Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/opinion/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/opinion/Susan-Morrison-It39s-time-we.5843542.jp Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/opinion/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/opinion/Martin-Flanagan-New-threat-to.5842458.jp Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT