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Category Archives: Scottish Parliament
MoneyNonsense: RBS, out of our schools! You are not a fit and proper institution to teach children about money.
[Update on Monday 4 June 2012: The RBS MoneySense reception in the Scottish Parliament has now taken place, but MSPs representing three political parties - Labour, the SNP and the Scottish Greens - have all expressed misgivings about RBS teaching … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Scottish Parliament
Tagged education, ethical banking, Malcolm Chisholm, Marco Biagi, marketing, money, money sense, moneysense, Move Your Money, Move Your Money UK, Neil Findlay, Positive Money, RBS, Royal Bank of Scotland, schools, Scottish Green Party, Scottish Labour Party, Scottish National Party, Scottish Parliament, SNP
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Letter in Scotsman
A letter I wrote was published in today’s Scotsman.
Posted in Miscellaneous, Politics, Scottish Parliament
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Don’t do politics? You’ll like this, then…
Real Prosperity and Joined-Up Thinking Pat Kane (writer, musician, consultant and activist) is one of the campaign’s supporters. Don’t do politics? Well, perhaps it’s because politics doesn’t do you! This is about changing that. Please visit the site and consider … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Scottish Parliament
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Please support call for end to “GDP fetish”!
GDP takes no account of health, wellbeing or environmental criteria and even counts such things as expenditure on prisons as positive, so it is a daft criterion with which to measure progress, as France now recognises. With reference to this … Continue reading
Alternatives to GDP suggested by Sarkozy – hooray!
I am not generally a fan of Sarkozy, but he has it absolutely right when it comes to the inadequacies of GDP. Vive la France! Nathaniel, the protagonist of the novel I largely wrote when I lived in Paris, would … Continue reading
You can’t get more local than my nettle soup!
Aileen Campbell MSP has suggested a saltire food-labelling scheme to encourage Scottish people to support local producers. As I told her myself, you can’t get more local than my nettle soup. I live in the Stockbridge colonies next to the … Continue reading
Posted in Miscellaneous, People I know (not directly connected with my writing), Scottish Parliament
Tagged Aileen Campbell, blackberries, brambles, buy local, ecology, Edinburgh, garlic, home brew, local food, nettles, Saltire Scheme, self-sufficiency, Stockbridge, Stockbridge Colonies, Warriston, wild food, wild garlic, wine
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Now available in the UK! Just received one of the first copies of Lilou Mace’s “I Lost My Job and I Liked It”!
Hoorah! Lilou Mace has just sent me one of the first copies of I Lost My Job and I Liked It, which I helped her write. It looks fabulous! It’s on Amazon.com, and Amazon.co.uk, and you can order copies in … Continue reading
Posted in Lilou Mace, My books/commissions, Scottish Parliament, Self-help, Videos, Writing
Tagged autobiography, biography, Boris Johnson, Edinburgh, employment, find your dream job, how to find a job, job loss, job-seeking, Lilou Mace, printing, publishing, restaurants, Scottish Parliament, self-publishing, unemployment, Writing
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Climate Change Event at Scottish Parliament
For your enjoyment here are some pictures I took today at the Scottish Climate Change Rally outside the Scottish Parliament. People had the opportunity of decorating their own dolls. Mine, pictured above, advocated eating less meat, and switching to an … Continue reading
UK Government Complicit in Torture
Here’s a press release I drafted for Dr Bill Wilson MSP today! (On Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays I work in the Scottish Parliament as his researcher.) Best wishes Eric
Use terrorism law on Goodwin!
The MSP for whom I work part-time, Dr Bill Wilson, is lodging a motion on Monday criticising the use of the fear of terror to erode civil liberties and human rights, but calling for consistency in the implementation of such … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-terrorism legislation, banking, banks, economics, pensions, Politics, RBS, Royal Bank of Scotland, Sir Fred Goodwin, terror, terrorism
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