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For my part, I will never forget standing as a 12-year-old boy outside Lusaka post office in Zambia, on Nelson Mandela's birthday. We were asked to move on because, as whites, we were suspected of being terrorists.
Any corporate would be spending to achieve results beyond those of just spending; any corporate would be celebrating the achievement of those other results rather than celebrating spending for the sake of spending; any corporate would be considering how to increase its market share and how to maximise its turnover, i...
The second thing is whether the incentives are sufficient to get the results that we want.The existing compensatory schemes have tended, in some celebrated cases, to give large quantities of money to individuals not to damage things.
We may yet celebrate, because the Scottish Fisheries Protection Agency has confirmed in writing that those 140,000 square miles include the 6,000 square miles in question.
I could nitpick about it if I really wanted to but, as Kenny MacAskill said, today should be a celebration of the work of past, present and future trade unions.
On the humble business of organising a conference in Paisley to mark and celebrate enlargement, I found that it was not so easy to connect with the Scottish Executive on the matter.
It was the brainchild of Mr McLeish, who christened it IRIS—the improving regulation in Scotland unit. IRIS recently celebrated her third birthday. Guess how many regulations she has abolished?