... Double-speak VENTS in Europe are embarrassing the British Government in a manner that will force it to come clean over the single European currency. Labour and its allies in big business would have us believe that scrapping the pound for the euro is a ...

... RELATIVELY SPEAKING Creative reading IF the thought of your child glued to Teletubbies or their Nintendo for six weeks of summer holidays fills you with horror, then Dillons the bookshop may be able to help. The newly launched Read Away, Play Away promotion ...

... To appear but not to speak? IT IS DOUBTFUL whether yesterday's ruling by the Northern Ireland Court of Appeal that three police officers can be compelled to go into the witness-box at the inquest of three men killed by police bullets six years ago will ...

... “SPEAK FOR BRITAIN” Mr Willis also has a banner heading: “ Let East Edinburgh speak for Britain.,” He declares that the election takes place at a time when many are feeling the full effects of Tory policies upon the cost of living. Whilst prices of some ...

... Speaking frankly 1t is hardly likely that the Bow Group memorandum on Central Africa will make pleasant reading to Sir Roy Welensky, now in London for talks with the British Government about the proposed {act-finding commission on Central Africa. Though ...

... Fester speaks “HELLO, Fester. Who's been a na’t_iflty boy; then?” . “For the last time, I'm a cockatoo, not a parrot. A sulphur-crested cockatoo, got it? I don’t talk.” g . “The same cockatoo, the head-keeper tells me, who was abducted from his cage, ...

... SPEAKING VOLUMES JAMES LOGAN: The Scottish Gael, 2 vols. (834 pp. £25. John Donald). Ed. DERICK THOMSON: Gaidhlig ann an Albainn: (Gaelic in Scotland) ~ (92pp. Gairm Publications). . IT HAS BEEN a very good summer for rublicltions in and about Gaelic ...

... Speaking for themselves . FIVE years ago when I was a full-time reporter I produced an article on abortion. It was nicely balanced: one interview with ‘a girl who had an abortion, one with a single woman who had the baby; comments * from the counsellor ...

... STILL SPEAKING The tribunal accepted the applicant’s evidence and held that the weeks in question were those during which his relationship with his brother continued to be governed by a contract of employment which normally involved employment for 21 ...

... FRANK SPEAKING Mr Louw declared. “It is, I think, necessary that I should this evening speak frankly—with perhaps more candour than is usual at a function of this nature. “We cannot take the risk of an old and mutually advantageous friendship being disturbed ...

... SPEAKING VOLUMES DR. JOHNSON SLEPT ON SKYE —~AND LIKED IT! G ...

... Oracle-speak WE knew it would happen. The University of Edinburgh has advertised for an Oracle Analyst, pretty much a waste of time, given it has already been revealed the Pythian Princess at ...