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Therefore, I join David McLetchie in thanking the out-going ombudsman, Professor Alice Brown, for her work. Her decisions have not always been uncontroversial—how could they be?
Scottish Class Action Procedure (PE1234) PE1234, from Peter Brown, on behalf of Leith Links residents association relates to the instigation of a class action procedure or similar in Scots law.
He has been thorough and has often been challenging, as I would have expected, but equally he has shown good grace and, more often than not, good humour.The election will decide Robert Brown’s fate, but I pay tribute to his service.
The Government’s position remains that which I outlined when I intervened on Mr Brown’s opening speech: the chief constable is responsible for police operations in his force.
My favourite story of all time is the one about the 14-year-old boy whose teacher walked in and said "Mr Brown left on Friday and I'm your new English teacher", and the boy shouted out "That's rather wonderful, I found Mr Brown somewhat less than stimulating."
At anti-immigrant demonstrations, individuals have openly called for the mass deportation of all black and brown people from Scotland, repeated antisemitic conspiracy theories or worse.
Members of Parliament are openly discussing mass deportation and questioning whether black and brown people can ever be considered British or English; the UK’s shadow justice secretary is quite content to be photographed in the company of a founder member of Combat 18, a neo-Nazi terror group; and a man who proudly showed the world a Nazi salute is now not ...
They are some of your best, and the product or the vehicle that is used to deliver what is happening in this Parliament through the medium of those journalists is critically important to all of us on this committee. Agreed. I will bring in Mr Brown. Rhodri Talfan Davies said that you currently spend around £300 million a year.
I want to ask a couple of quick supplementary questions before I bring in Mr Harvie. Going back to what Mr Brown was saying, I, like some other members of the committee, have very little interest in football, but I noticed that the national news at the weekend featured some of the successes of England men’s and women’s teams in Europe but not Aberdeen winn...