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Torcuil Crichton's Westminster blog

Friday, 30 June 2017

Time for the real "reset" report to be published

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From my Daily Record column GATHERING dust somewhere in a filing cabinet in the First Minister's office is the real "reset"...

Island interests blowing in the wind down here

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From my Daily Record column THREE weeks on from the general election and no sign in the House of Commons order paper of Western Isles S...

Macron is the talk of the town

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From my Daily Record column I was on a bike and stopped at traffic lights the other day when Faisal Islam, him off the telly, drew up on ...
Friday, 16 June 2017

Eigg getting on with ordinary, radical lives

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With Maggie Fyffe on Monday I dashed from London to the Isle of Eigg on Monday to join the 20th anniversary celebrations of the communi...
Wednesday, 14 June 2017

Grenfell Tower blaze - a parable of our times

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Grenfell Tower is only two miles from me, so once the radio went off this morning I headed there.   By the time I arrived at 7.30...
Tuesday, 16 May 2017

Singing from the song sheet - Labour's manifesto

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From my Daily Record column 12/05/17 Analysing the fine detail of Labour's leaked manifesto is missing the point. Manifestos are not a...
Saturday, 13 May 2017

Comhairle airson a' Chomhairle

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Sùil  Eile airson colbh an Daily Record Tha na h-Eileanan an Iar ann an seòrsa de staing 's gun boireannaich sam bith air a' chùis...
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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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