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Month: August 2009 Articles

What we’re reading: 24 August 2009

Your daily progressive news round-up!

Communities are suffering as the SNP raids the Highlands and Islands Enterprise budget

Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) is one of Europe’s most
successful development agencies, with a track record of adopting a more
holistic approach to economic development, supporting initiatives which
support the wider community as a route to stimulating growth.

It’s time to end the cultural appeasement

I doubt that Jim Fitzpatrick meant to create a media storm when he
removed himself from a constituent’s wedding last week because he
wasn’t allowed to sit next to his wife. It wasn’t the first Muslim
wedding the couple have attended, but it was the first with
segregation. I am sure that he didn’t mean to cause offence to anyone
either. I respect his decision, and admire his courage for taking it. I
would like to think in the same circumstances, I would do the same.

Shades of grey

The meat of the Boorman report is its analysis not of the nature of healthcare or NHS employees, but of their employers