Could Scotland
have its own
Ivy League?
Angus Skinner
Are we ready not to have government?
Whit thochts
anent oor
ain time?
Alan Fisher
The riot in Greece
Tough oil is with us.
There is no way back
to the time of plenty
Catherine Czerkawska
The problem with euthanasia
Works of art are not good
for anything. They are
an end in themselves
Rear Window
Springburn diary
Bit-part players
Someone who isn’t starring in Eck’s Men: Labour’s Malcolm Chisholm
Someone else on the sidelines: new Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie
Yet another person who failed the audition: the Conservatives’ Murdo Fraser
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Eck’s Men:
the new Scottish
blockbuster
Bob Smith
From the extreme left (so to speak):
Alex Neil
Codename: Bruiser
Special powers: Able to fight his way to become an Eck’s-Man despite once being the sworn enemy of Professor Eck.
Stewart Stevenson
Codename: Storm
Special powers: Able to cause havoc with the weather, close roads and bring all traffic to a standstill.
John Swinney
Codename: Skinny
Special powers: Able to slip through small financial loopholes and escape the tightest of budget squeezes.
Nicola Sturgeon
Codename: Nippy Sweetie
Special powers: Able to terrorise with her direct ‘no nonsense’ approach.
Alex EckSaviour Salmond
Codename: Professor Eck
Special powers: Able by sheer willpower to defeat his enemies by rendering them Gray and lifeless.
Mike Russell
Codename: Rustle
Special powers: Able to move ‘at a hundred miles an hour’ so it has been said.
Kenny MacAskill
Codename: Kill
Special powers: Able to lock people up (in fact, he has even been locked up himself), he can frighten judges, call a spade a spade and is capable of hugely controversial decisions on compassionate grounds.
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