City’s crèche madness

It transpired on television last night that six of the eight crèches in Edinburgh would be closing forthwith without any consultation at all. So much for the listening FibDem/SNP administration who are now showing that childcare in Edinburgh is in it’s biggest crisis in living memory.
EdSucks has received about 20 32 emails this morning […]

Definitely worth watching

Newsnight’s upcoming 8 dramas are worth watching. More details here. “The reason we’ve chosen drama is that now we can recreate the scenes the cameras couldn’t capture at the time - inside the Foreign Office on the day the legal officer Elizabeth Wilmshurst resolved to resign, inside the UN as Britain and America […]

Porcine councillor failing to turn up

Another Labour Councillor at the trough

It seems that labour really were scraping the bottom of the barrel for the May 2007 elections. It now turns out that one of their number having been lucky enough to get a job on the planning committee just hardly ever bothered to turn up. This is yet […]

18 Saughton Mains

18 Saughton Mains is an interesting and different Edinburgh blog it is also an allotment with two sheds: one leaks, the other is wobbly. Found the link on Andrew Burns’ blog. Who’d have thunk it.

The lies, the lies, and the waste - set to continue

“I think my honesty and my integrity have been vindicated.” says Wendy Alexander on BBC Radio last night: (listen here.) The definition of vindicated is “absolved: freed from any question of guilt; “is absolved from all blame”. How does this square with the Electoral Commission’s statement. “Wendy Alexander did not take all reasonable steps in […]

Not in the public interest - Ask the bloody public

The major line from the Electoral Commission’s statement today was “while Wendy Alexander did not take all reasonable steps in seeking to comply with the relevant legislation, she did take significant steps. Having considered all the circumstances, the Commission has decided that it is not appropriate or in the public interest to report this matter to the Procurator Fiscal.”