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Tlme to call fair play

... to have more Yrotection. :ofeat majority lose at the of the day, but, nevertheless, thj are entitled to a fair crack of the whig Only last Wednesday, Peter Monteith, who trains at Edinurgh, ind stoble: ok i sta ey Donamlan. were taken to task over the ...

Published: Sunday 28 January 1990
Newspaper: Scotland on Sunday
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 368 | Page: 26 | Tags: none

Storm over Labour community charge alternative

... said the ouly good thing about Labour’s mpoul was that it was not poll tax. | Labour’s: rejection of a local lncgu:: tax, whig was at one seen as ferred solwon,ww&myuag: Docraty Scotish aftairs adjusts his tie at a press conference in Glasgow yesterday ...

Published: Friday 02 February 1990
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 529 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Food stall rates,win may set UK trend

... valuations for food courts in Glasgow’s Sauchiehall Centre and Princes Square. In most ing centres, e 1000 court” area. Msel whig&copsm; Oft:lm:m sea is operal :u;l:flgf‘tsheoperaw ln&penloo(larotmdtheslde':!.flo . But when the courts :Eeoedinl”’l.theam pped ...

Published: Monday 05 February 1990
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 212 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

oY IN PARLIAMENT Michael hits the roof

... to come up with the quip: “As a Thatcher, I object to a roof tax !” One Tory MP compared it with the 18th centu window tax, whig forced poorer families to brick up windows to save money. Mr Forsyth may be right in believing the tag will hang like an albatross ...

Published: Saturday 17 February 1990
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 495 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Fears over funding for rural housing

... its spending programme for 1990-91 which it had proposed to the Scottish Office. - While that fi wasr:fian‘ledasthe minimum whig:r:vould ow momentum to be maintained by key programmes, an increase of only llm cent was announced by the Scotti Office, Sbt;lter ...

Published: Wednesday 28 March 1990
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 342 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

A golden Stuart sovereign

... enigmatic character. In the field of English politics, we see, as the reign progresses, the development of a system in which Whigs and Tories become recognisable political parties. The reign was notable in other respects. Charles was a king with a fragile ...

Published: Saturday 28 April 1990
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 566 | Page: 32 | Tags: none

Yes, guilt belongs to Glasgow

... decidedly odd about. this &:flon t in the service of the dism in the Peg:e’sPalace, 'something akin to the willingness of certain Whig Lords to provide. mblewum&orthelrvuh%:lna. r than to pay them a lit wa .Glasaowa&asooui amedage same kind of outrage, but ...

Published: Tuesday 12 June 1990
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 641 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

The current political novel is to Trollope what Dallas is to Shakespeare

... nearly becomes a reformer, when mistaken for the mythical riot-leader Captain Swing and carted off to jail. When he sees the Whigs come to Eower. “louping, like the puddo:fi; of Egypt, over among the right-hand ‘benches of the House of Commons, greedy as ...

Published: Saturday 30 June 1990
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1085 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

CHOICE LESLEY McROBB

... LESLEY McROBB wrote to keep out of debt. He always had the bailiffs at the door. “He was much more interested in politics, a Whig MP from 1780 until 1812, and a brilliant orator of amazing wit. It’s not well known that he was one of the first people to ...

Published: Tuesday 03 July 1990
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 76 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

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... piano extended by prevmdoddu:o::& 11:00 Compesers Week:, Hanns Eisler. Landscape of Exile; String Quarfet; M&nrmmteen Ways #:whi\g Sunday Hotel Room 1942; To a Little Radio; Holderlin Fragments. e S et e 6:30 Test Match Speciak England v New Zesiand. 4 ’F ...

Published: Thursday 05 July 1990
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 144 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

Old Sherry better for decanting

... Heller’s lon%-runtion of the ywright an Brinsle By COLIN DONALD Ireland who became the lit_erarz, sensation of London, a notable whig orator and a theatre manager of questionable probity. - Sheridan “had bailiffs like other peo‘fl: had mice” and the best thing ...

Published: Saturday 14 July 1990
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 89 | Page: 7 | Tags: none