HMS Daring off to Gulf as UK and USA fail to remember the past
HMS Daring, the first of the new ‘Daring’ class of Clydebuilt Type 45 destroyers and whose sea trials in Argyll waters we watched closely on AIS is off on her first active mission – to the Gulf.Her...
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HMS Argyll in Strait of Hormuz gambit
Some hours before the EU declared that, from 1st July 2012, it would no longer buy Iranian oil and would freeze EU assets of the Iranian Central Bank, a multi-national naval battle group passed through...
View ArticleEuropean parliament goes for sanctions against unsustainable mackerel fishing
The European Parliament and the Danish Presidency today agreeda comprehensive sanctions package against countries and territories engaged in unsustainable mackerel fishing practices.Iceland and the...
View ArticleFishing: Lochhead wants to see changes in ‘remote control’ from Brussels
Scottish Fisheries Secretary, Richard Lochhead,has just summed up the agreements made at the Fisheries Council in Brussels at the end of 2012 and has switched on the Decca to scan the horizon for the...
View ArticleEwan Kennedy: Granularity bad, ignorance good
Appearing before the Rural Affairs, Climate Change and Environment [RACCE] Committee on 9th January, Environment Minister, Paul Wheelhouse, used the word ‘granularity’ six times in relation to his...
View ArticleDemocratic deficit as Government ignores Information Commission ruling
The Information Commissioner, Rosemary Agnew, recently ruled against the Scottish Government and instructed it to release the identities of individual salmon farms that shoot seals – by 7th May.That...
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