Military Cross for Lt James Adamson of The Argylls – and issues to consider
24 year-old Lieutenant James Adamson of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, the 5th Battalion (5 Scots) of The Royal Regiment of Scotland, has been awarded the Military Cross for ‘supreme physical...
View ArticleHarris Tweed drops ‘Scottish’ from branding in USA
Harris Tweed has admitted that it has dropped the word ‘Scottish’ from the branding of its products sold in the USA.This has been a commercial response to the negative attitude to Scotland following...
View ArticleLabour Conference: put Brown out of our misery
How low can this country sink? We have borrowed to a level that will affect our growth for decades. We have a war which is costing lives we have no right to spend – our own and others. We dishonour the...
View ArticleGreater risk for TA recruits posted to Afghanistan as MoD cuts training
In a financial situation it describes as ‘challenging’, the MoD has called a 6 month halt to training for the Territorial Army (TA). It’s all about money. The size of the UK Government debt is driving...
View ArticlePoppies and Remembrance Sunday
2009′s Remembrance Sunday is on 8th November and, with the British obsession with protocol, this year has seen a pretty arcane debate about when, where and for how long you should wear the poppy.Some...
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Remembrance Day 2009
‘Who bends not his ear to any bell which upon any occasion rings? But who can remove it from that bell which is passing a piece of himself out of this world?‘No man is an island, entire of itself;...
View ArticleGordon Brown remembered only himself at the Cenotaph and forgot himself at...
Last night’s and today’s national media are full of comment on Gordon Brown’s failure to bow after laying his wreath at the Cenotaph at yesterday’s Remembrance Day ceremony.We noticed it at once, have...
View ArticleA timely documentary: BBC Alba looks at the life of Army wives
In an international documentary – Soillse/Nomad’s Land - to be transmitted by Gaelic channel, BBC ALBA, at 9.00pm on Wednesday 9th December.The film gives a voice to military wives and while its focus...
View ArticleRare good UK Government idea: on honouring military covenant
Was this Bob Ainsworth’s finest moment? In a recent and poorly reported initiative, the much ridiculed (with reason) UK Defence Secretary announced the introduction of a series of measures to support...
View Article‘Regular guy’s’ finances hidden by offshore secrecy jurisdiction
That ‘regular guy’, former Prime Minister Tony Blair, has a very regular attitude to the vast wealth (over £15 million) he has accumulated since leaving office in 2007 – ‘regular’ for the super-rich,...
View ArticleRaised taxes on fuel and whisky to hit Argyll and rural Scotland
Chancellor Alistair Darling’s budget yesterday included one tax that will hit Argyll and all of rural Scotland and the islands hard.Raised tax on fuelHe raised Fuel Tax by three pence. Yes, this is...
View ArticleBBC Radio Scotland: programme on Black Watch in Afghanistan
At 11.30am on Monday 26th April, BBC Radio Scotland is airing a programme: Black Watch, 3 Scots: A war in their own words.This recounts the experiences in this ongoing war of soldiers in the Black...
View ArticleThe Argylls are off for another 6 month tour of Afghanistan
The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders are going back to Afghanistan on a six month tour of duty.Their HQ will be at Lashkar Gah in the dangerous Helmand Province but they will have units based all over...
View ArticleOne of the Argylls under investigation for taking gruesome talisman from dead...
The Ministry of Defence has confirmed today (8th August 2011) that a member of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, serving in Helmand Province in Afghanistan, is under investigation by the Royal...
View ArticleMilitary Cross and engagement for Bryan Johnson of Argyll and Sutherland...
Private Bryan Johnson of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, now the Fifth Battalion (5 Scots) of the Royal Regiment of Scotland, has been awarded the Military Cross.The medal for gallantry was...
View ArticleAfghanistan: the John Kerry question, ‘How do you ask a man to be the last...
This past week, in Washington, President Obama and Prime Minster Cameron discussed how they might manage to achieve one of the foremost ambitions of each of them – to get out of Afghanistan as quickly...
View ArticleAre we going to accept the death of the Argylls?
The Mail on Sunday, whose defence journalism is traditionally strong, has revealed in its latest issue (14th April 2012) that the UK Government plans to cut two Scots battalions as part of its...
View ArticleAxed Argylls deployed to Olympic Games security
The consequences of the failure of the G4S contractor to deliver on its obligations in a security contract for the London 2012 Olympic Games – worth an immodest £284 million – are wide reaching.The...
View ArticleWhat if stranded soldiers die in Afganistan while their replacements have to...
It emerged yesterday that the deployment of an additional 3,500 troops at the London 2012 Olympics will result in some serving soldiers in Afghanistan forced to extend their tour there by up to one...
View ArticleAppeal Court judges rule MoD duty of care extends to battlefield
At the Court of Appeal in London on Friday 19th October 2012, the judges – Lord Neuberger , Lord Justice Moses and Lord Justice Rimer – ruled that the Ministry of Defence has a duty of care for its...
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