My old boss's speech hits the right note
Published: 23 April, 2008
THE Highlands have hosted two big Labour movement conferences in the past month in Aviemore and Inverness.
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Party time in Aviemore again
Published: 26 March, 2008
I BUMPED into the Prime Minister in 10 Downing Street last week and he told me how much he was looking forward to coming up to Aviemore for the Scottish Labour conference.
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Readers in a spin over company's plans for river
Published: 27 February, 2008
REGULAR "Strathy" readers will be aware of my recent spat with Scottish Water over their bungled proposed bid to take water from the River Spey.
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Pundits can be wrong in spectacular fashion
Published: 23 January, 2008
THE political focus in the media is currently more on America than the UK.
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The train causes me strain
Published: 05 December, 2007
THE one thing I've learnt in politics over the years is that the voters aren't stupid. People simply won't be fooled into believing you can get something for nothing. The new SNP government will con us at their peril.
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I'd rather catch a salmon than a plane
Published: 12 September, 2007
THIS week I gave up my pathetic attempts at trying to catch a salmon and headed down south to the TUC in Brighton.
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Water is rising on Cameron
Published: 25 July, 2007
THE recent rain hasn’t just meant the River Spey has been high all summer. I was in London last week and the River Thames is as high as I have ever seen it.
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Tories begin to spin out of control
Published: 06 June, 2007
LAST week I was speaking to Colin Myler, the News of the World editor, about life in Dulnain Bridge and my inability to land a salmon.
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Beware of smart Alex, the new statesman
Published: 09 May, 2007
THE Scottish National Party leader was the brains behind their historic victory and deserves all the credit he gets. He's not known as 'smart' Alex for nothing.
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Salmond playing a canny game
Published: 11 April, 2007
WHILST most of us sensible folk spent Easter soaking up the spring sunshine, fishing, walking and asking "What's the problem with this global warming?" our politicians were working flat out trying to win out votes for May 3.
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Here's to the Scots at No 11
Published: 07 March, 2007
MY OLD boss, Gordon Brown, has fixed his tenth and last budget for Wednesday, March 21, on the very day I had arranged for a mate from London to join me for a week's fishing on the Spey.
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Police hold steady against No 10 spin machine
Published: 24 January, 2007
FOR all his huffing and puffing, the SNP leader Alex Salmond has done much less damage to Tony Blair and New Labour than a previously unheard of Nat Highlands and Islands MP, Angus MacNeil.
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PR award leaves guests in a spin
Published: 01 November, 2006
EVERY year I get invited to attend the 'PR week' magazine annual awards ceremony at the Grosvernor House Hotel in London, and this year, for the first time since I moved to the Highlands, I decided to attend.
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It’s still Gordon for PM for me
Published: 13 September, 2006
FISHING on the River Spey is one of the most relaxing pastimes I can imagine. Talking about the latest civil war in the Labour Party isn’t.
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Crisis gives leaders the chance to shine
Published: 16 August, 2006
A GOOD crisis gives leading politicians the chance to shine, and in the last week two of Scotland’s finest have been doing just that.
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Just another political football
Published: 12 July, 2006
FOR the first time since 1982, I didn’t make it out to see England play in the World Cup, and for the first time, I watched all the games here in Scotland.
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Reid all about it as Labour fight gets dirty
Published: 24 May, 2006
IN WESTMINSTER last week, I had lunch with a few old journalist chums and as you can imagine all the gossip was about Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.
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