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 I have been promising this blog to a small number of my twitter followers for some time. I should apologise for the delay but it has taken ...

 To be honest, the Scottish Parliament which I campaigned for and indeed was, for many years, keen to be a member of has been more than a bi...

 We are all sympathetic to the disabled. All of us. right across the political spectrum. And we are all agreed that those who are disabled d...

Preface I am now an officially retired lawyer, having decided  to give up my practising certificate on 31st October last having spent 44 yea...

 On 31st October, after practising the law for 46 years, I fully retired. I had various plans for my time but in truth, so far, have realise...

Since just about everybody else involved at the time of the independence referendum has had their say, I suppose I had better have mine.  Th...

 And so it is over.  I hesitated to say anything much about the election, not least because I was out of the Country for much of it, visitin...