Lesley Riddoch
Columnist at The Scotsman
Columnist at The National (Scotland)
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1 week ago |
thenational.scot | Lesley Riddoch
SIR Walter Scott once declared: “Our passions are wild beasts. God grant us the strength to muzzle them.” Muzzled passion – it is what Unionism is all about. But what about the cause of independence? In James Robertson’s brilliant novel, the Testament Of Gideon Mack, his eponymous “hero” observes that he succeeded in muzzling passions in order to survive and yet in doing so, failed to really live. It’s a stinging, truthful insight into the challenge posed by life.
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2 weeks ago |
thenational.scot | Lesley Riddoch
Michael Sheen used £100,000 of his own money to wipe out £1 million of loan debt hanging over 900 people in his native Port Talbot THE Welsh actor Michael Sheen is fast becoming a genuine National Treasure. Last year, the actor who starred in Good Omens with David Tennant and portrayed Tony Blair and David Frost in biopics, used £100,000 of his own money to wipe out £1 million of loan debt hanging over 900 people in his native Port Talbot.
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3 weeks ago |
thenational.scot | Lesley Riddoch
Demonstrators hold Greenland flags as they protest in front of the US embassy in Copenhagen WHAT happened last week in Greenland? Well, obviously American vice-president JD Vance, his wife Usha and national security adviser Mike Waltz swanned in without invitation, used the excuse of attending a husky dog sleigh race to push Donald Trump’s case for buying Greenland again and lectured Denmark about not spending enough to protect Greenland’s security.
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4 weeks ago |
thenational.scot | Lesley Riddoch
We must have the courage to believe Scotland can build back far better (Image: PA) SO, Rachel Reeves is changing Britain for the better. A little pain now (though not for her), will see serious gains … soon. Does she think we were born yesterday? Everyone over the age of 30 has heard the same empty promise from David Cameron, George Osborne, Theresa May, Boris Johnson and the Lettuce herself, Liz Truss. Jam tomorrow always justifies cuts today against the most vulnerable.
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1 month ago |
thenational.scot | Lesley Riddoch
THE Cowal Community Energy group – recently rejected by Forestry Land Scotland (FLS) from taking on the lease to run a large-scale wind farm – aims to take over the land it sits on instead. Bravo. It’s a shame neither the Scottish Government nor FLS encouraged this community wind farm bid in the first place. But the ball is now in the Scottish Government’s court.
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If Trump‘s America & Starmer’s Britain aren’t your ideal society – what is? Denmark isn’t perfect. But their welfare state, all party backing for wind energy & cooperative society are impressive. Film screenings in Grantown & Kingussie this week. Tix info https://t.co/gp9vU3i6KP https://t.co/ScVq9OPOiT