This evening I lifted my personal embargo on the BBC to watch Scotland 2014 where Alistair Darling was taking questions from Sarah Smith. My expectations were not great, I have to admit; Sarah Smith has not lived up to the original programme hype, but with Darling in the hot seat there was a morbid curiosity sitting within me. Not long…
Category: Scotland’s Referendum
The elephant in the room
Sunday night and I find myself and my partner over at great friends of ours for an evening of good food, home made parsnip wine and a film. We are all a little bit political so the conversation would slip in that direction sooner or later. Someone lit the blue touch paper with ‘how’s the Referendum going? and we were…
Thatcher (May79 – Sep14) – give her a good send off
Margaret Thatcher (3 May 1979 – 18 September 2014). Let’s give her a good send off! Thatcher meant a lot of things to a lot of people. To me, when she came to power on 3 May 1979 she immediately introduce the ‘ME, ME, ME’ society to the UK. ‘I’m all right, Jack’ quickly became the new UK mantra. She…
Ode to a village idiot
In my last blog I explained a little about contingency planning, why they are necessary and why within Financial Services they are mandatory when faced with a potential change, such as the new Independent Scotland after 18 September 2014. But let’s rewind and think about why we are having to explain the bleedin’ obvious. Some journalist got sight of a…