Whitehall 1212

Torcuil Crichton's Westminster blog

Friday, 30 October 2009

All power to the workers at the Free Press

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It's official - the West Highland Free Press, my old newspaper, has been bought over by its staff from the shareholders of West Highland...
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Thursday, 29 October 2009

Nimrod lawyer looks for criminal charges

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John Cooper, the lawyer representing some of the Nimrod families in their negligence case against the Ministry of Defence, is considering wh...
Wednesday, 28 October 2009

The loss of Nimrod XV230 - a devastating report

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It was a solemn and abject Bob Ainsworth, the Secretary of State for Defence, that stood to give a statement on the independent inquiry into...
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Groundbreaking solution from Gers MP

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Lots of black humour going around about Rangers but I’m sure Ayrshire Central MP Brian Donohoe, secretary of the Rangers Supporters Club in...

Kelly adopts Holyrood system for MPs expenses

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Details of the Kelly report on Westminster expenses reforms leaked late last night. The main proposal is an end to mortgage interest paymen...
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Thursday, 22 October 2009

The chamber twitters into a postal strike

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Reprint of yesterday's PMQs sketch almost as it appeared in the Herald ( because don't you love it when the subs cut out your pay ...
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Tuesday, 20 October 2009

Ludovic Kennedy, the Rawalpindi and the Lewis connection

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Tributes have been flowing all day to Ludovic Kennedy, the broadcaster and campaigner, who died late on Sunday evening. None was more fulso...
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Torcuil Crichton

Whitehall 1212
Is the old telephone number for Scotland Yard and just about the right handle for the Westminster Editor of the Scottish Daily Record. I mostly patrol Westminster but this is my personal blog, taking in everything from my native Isle of Lewis to the Isle of Dogs in London. You can read my journalism at www.dailyrecord.co.uk and you can contact me directly on torcuil@gmail dot com
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