Imagine you are in a meeting trying to make your case. How would you feel if, every time you opened your mouth to speak, somebody interrupted you before you had got to the end of your first sent...
http://carons-musings.blogspot.com/2014/02/men-is-your-behaviour-driving-women-out.html
This post originally appeared on Liberal Democrat Voice That the SNP would dismiss yesterday's announcement on currency by George Osborne should not come as a surprise to any of us. Alex Sal...
http://carons-musings.blogspot.com/2014/02/bluff-bluster-and-bullying-says-salmond.html
This post first appeared on Liberal Democrat Voice The currency in an independent Scotland has been the subject of much frenetic debate in recent months. The Scottish Government's White Pape...
http://carons-musings.blogspot.com/2014/02/ruling-out-currency-union-locking-horse.html
Shocking figures show that police in Scotland have stopped and searched 750,000 people in the last year. The Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research report also found that 500 children...
http://carons-musings.blogspot.com/2014/01/time-to-start-educating-children-about.html
I've had a post in drafts for the last 3 days about the fallout from Alistair Webster's statement but my heart has been so heavy that it's only now I feel able to complete it. I have to thank L...
http://carons-musings.blogspot.com/2014/01/rennard-how-is-party-going-to-get.html
This article first appeared on Liberal Democrat Voice Alistair Carmichael's keynote speech and subsequent question and answer session in Stirling today touched three different dimensions of t...
http://carons-musings.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-three-dimensions-to-alistair.html
This is very long, but I thought it was worth posting in full. My analysis is here on Liberal Democrat Voice. You can never really get the full flavour of a 14 page speech into a blog post. ...
http://carons-musings.blogspot.com/2014/01/in-full-alistair-carmichaels-new-year.html
It's been our tradition in recent years to go to the Pantomime at the King's Theatre in Edinburgh, which always stars comedians Allan Stewart and Andy Gray and Grant Stott from Radio Forth. Usual...
http://carons-musings.blogspot.com/2014/01/review-peter-pan-edinburgh-or-allan.html
There's been a bit of controversy over the issue of breastfeeding in the House of Commons and taking babies into the voting lobby sparked by comments by Jo Swinson, who gave birth to her son And...
http://carons-musings.blogspot.com/2014/01/should-mps-be-allowed-to-take-their.html
Scotland may be involved in a long and often bad-tempered referendum campaign, but there are still some issues that unite people across the political divide. You can guarantee that at least once ...
http://carons-musings.blogspot.com/2014/01/a-polite-request-to-all-scottish-male.html
There were extraordinary scenes in the Scottish Parliament this afternoon. First of all, the Scottish Liberal Democrats didn't even vote for their amendment, and nor did anyone else. They didn't...
http://carons-musings.blogspot.com/2014/01/willie-rennie-in-20-years-theyll-be.html
So, after truly dreadful Festive television (with only a few exceptions like Doctor Who and Death comes to Pemberley), will the new season deliver anything worth watching? Well, this week is repl...
http://carons-musings.blogspot.com/2014/01/quick-review-739.html
For the New Year, a story which shows the adverse effects of both illiberal and centralising measures. In Edinburgh, for the past 30 years, "saunas" have been licensed with the unspoken knowledg...
http://carons-musings.blogspot.com/2014/01/moves-to-close-edinburgh-saunas-show.html
This article first appeared on Liberal Democrat Voice . There's been a spate of articles and comments by Liberal Democrat politicians which, at a guess, isn't co-ordinated, but they all addr...
http://carons-musings.blogspot.com/2014/01/how-do-we-do-politics-better.html
The number of things I read and want to blog about greatly exceeds the amount of time I have to blog. Therefore, I have decided to do a quick round up links post every day. I don't know if Blogge...
http://carons-musings.blogspot.com/2014/01/whats-good-to-read-today-3-january-2014.html
First of all, Happy New Year to all of you. Second of all, I'm going to have to get better at putting more of the stuff I write on here. Since I've been co-editing Liberal Democrat Voice, I've ...
http://carons-musings.blogspot.com/2014/01/top-ten-read-posts-of-2013.html
As many of you will know, I've been a fan of Michael Schumacher ever since he came on the Formula 1 scene in 1991. You can imagine how I'm feeling this morning as the news from Grenoble sounds ...
As the Scottish Parliament continues to debate the removal of corroboration from our legal system, I thought it would be a good idea to publish Alison McInnes MSP's speech to Scottish Liberal De...
http://carons-musings.blogspot.com/2013/12/alison-mcinnes-scots-law-is-not-safe-in.html
I've watched it twice now. And I think I probably need to watch it a few more times before I properly understand it. I can't come out and say that I loved last night's Doctor Who Christmas specia...
http://carons-musings.blogspot.com/2013/12/here-be-many-spoilers-so-if-you-havent.html
I've never gone into a polling booth wondering how I'd vote. Even that time in 90s Edwinstowe when my choices were Labour and the Tories. There was no way I could ever vote Tory so I crossed my f...
http://carons-musings.blogspot.com/2013/12/so-this-is-what-being-floating-voter.html
This week's meeting of the Federal Executive could have been a fractious affair as we were discussing both the future of Spring Conference and the future of the interim peers' panel. In the end, ...
http://carons-musings.blogspot.com/2013/12/federal-executive-report-9-december-2013.html
I've written many times about the problems with the Government's Work Capability Assessment, the tool, implemented by ATOS, used to decide who qualifies for Employment and Support Allowance. Th...
http://carons-musings.blogspot.com/2013/12/did-government-misrepresent-professor.html
I don't pretend to be an economist so don't expect any commentary on debts or deficits from me. I want to take a very quick look at some of the practical aspects of the Chancellor's Autumn State...
http://carons-musings.blogspot.com/2013/12/autumn-statement-5-quick-thoughts-from.html
Recently, Alisdair Calder McGregor was selected as the Liberal Democrat Candidate for Calder Valley. His articles on Liberal Democrat Voice on the energy price freeze and the living wage have...
http://carons-musings.blogspot.com/2013/11/its-all-kicking-off-in-calderdaleaka.html
I am reeling from the fact that a government with Liberal Democrats in it is on the brink of crossing a major humanitarian line. Not content with standing by while Isa Muaza starves himself to de...
http://carons-musings.blogspot.com/2013/11/3-ways-you-can-try-to-save-isamuazas.html