It was on 30 April 1978 that an aspiring 16-year-old musician joined around 100,000 people in Trafalgar Square for a march to Victoria Park in…
Why words matter in the local asylum debate
‘Fear of disorder behind asylum secrecy’ screamed The Courier’s front page on Monday morning. Inside, the article suggested that Perth and Kinross Council had deliberately…
Dear Constituent – thank you for writing to me concerning the many issues to do with Brexit.
Dear Constituent Thank you for writing to me concerning the many issues around Brexit. At the time of writing this response the future of the…
PERTHSHIRE TORIES SUSPEND 2 OF THEIR OWN COUNCILLORS
The Conservative group on Perth and Kinross Council have suspended two of their own councillors in an unprecedented disciplinary crisis in one of the few…
TOWARDS A UNIVERSITY OF THE CITY OF PERTH
I am really pleased that a renewed debate about the possibility of a ‘University of the City of Perth’ is taking place and I encourage…
The Tories and Perth Royal Infirmary
In the last few weeks I have had to reassure a number of my constituents who have been under the impression that accident and emergency…
RURAL SCOTLAND AND INDEPENDENCE.
It wasn’t all that long ago. They were the ‘SNP heartlands’ and we seemed unassailable. When I was first elected in 2001 the SNP at…
JUNE 8TH/9TH 2017
As my son Brodie hands me the last soggy knock up list from Bute Drive in North Muirton we knew we had made an extraordinary…
FIGHTING TO SAVE PERTHSHIRE’S PUBLIC TOILETS. MY LETTER TO THE TORY LEADER OF P&K COUNCIL.
WISHART SEEKS ASSURANCES ON PERTHSHIRE PUBLIC TOILETS SNP Perth and North Perthshire candidate, Pete Wishart, has today written to Conservative council leader, Ian Campbell, seeking…