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<title>ScotlandSpeaks.com | Stop the world and be heard &#45; Kenny MacAskill MP</title>
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<title>Alba Party will worry the SNP and the Greens, but appeal to many independence voters</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/alba-party-will-worry-the-snp-and-the-greens</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ The Alba Party launch excites a Holyrood contest boiling down to whether the SNP can get an overall majority and who’ll come second. Suddenly independence comes to the fore and galvanises those who support that cause. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2021 13:22:29 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Kenny MacAskill MP</dc:creator>
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<title>Save our Pubs: Why Chancellor Rishi Sunak must still act to help these centres of our communities survive</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/save-our-pubs-why-chancellor-rishi-sunak-must-still-act-to-help-these-centres-of-our-communities-survive</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Reading George Blake’s fine Scottish novel, The Shipbuilders, about the Clyde shipyards, reminded me of the pubs on its shore. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2021 21:46:32 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Kenny MacAskill MP</dc:creator>
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<title>Heavy Is The Crown</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Kenny MacAskill MP examines issues facing Scotland&#039;s Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service and says it is time to finally separate the Executive, Parliament, and Judiciary from each other.  ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2021 22:03:15 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Kenny MacAskill MP</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Kenny MacAskill, Wings over Scotland, Justice, Crown Office, Alex Salmond</media:keywords>
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<title>It’s more important than ever that the Yes cause is separated from the SNP</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/its-more-important-than-ever-that-the-yes-cause-is-separated-from-the-snp</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ It’s been assumed by some in the SNP and indeed by others outwith it, that the formation of a larger Yes movement organisation is a threat to either the party or the cause. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2021 19:34:38 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Kenny MacAskill MP</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Independence, Kenny MacAskill, SNP, Holyrood Election</media:keywords>
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<title>Brexit Britain&amp;apos;s flag&#45;waving politics is a symbol of its decline</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/brexit-britains-flag-waving-politics-is-a-symbol-of-its-decline</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ “Let them eat cake” was attributed to Marie Antoinette, in the face of the hungry mob of “sans culottes”. Wrongly it seems, though such callous indifference led to her demise on Madame La Guillotine. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2021 17:01:36 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Kenny MacAskill MP</dc:creator>
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<title>Inquiry in to Nicola Sturgeon&amp;apos;s Government has descended into a farcical, Kafkaesque game of rigged Cluedo</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/inquiry-in-to-nicola-sturgeons-government-has-descended-into-a-farcical-kafkaesque-game-of-rigged-cluedo</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ The so-called Salmond Inquiry’s descending from the simply failing to the utterly farcical. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2021 22:13:50 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Kenny MacAskill MP</dc:creator>
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<title>An independent Scotland&amp;apos;s government will be whatever voters choose (and not necessarily what I or Bobby Gillespie want)</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/an-independent-scotlands-government-will-be-whatever-voters-choose-and-not-necessarily-what-i-or-bobby-gillespie-want</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ I was delighted that Bobby Gillespie from the band Primal Scream tweeted his support for independence. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2021 14:50:07 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Kenny MacAskill MP</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Independence, Bobby Gillespie, Estonia, Ireland</media:keywords>
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<title>Trans rights and women&amp;apos;s rights both matter. It is a question of balance</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/trans-rights-and-womens-rights-both-matter-it-is-a-question-of-balance</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ On waking up, my mind turns to various issues from the mundane to the deadly serious. Thoughts cross my mind, from my fitba team’s stumbling form, never mind the plight of the national game, through to global warming and our planet’s potential extinction. I have to confess though that trans rights don’t normally spring to mind. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2021 16:44:33 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Kenny MacAskill MP</dc:creator>
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<title>Boris Johnson&amp;apos;s real reason for denying a second referendum has just been revealed by George Osborne</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/boris-johnsons-real-reason-for-denying-a-second-referendum-has-just-been-revealed-by-george-osborne</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ The Better Together band’s reforming with Michael Gove and Gordon Brown once again singing the Union song. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2021 18:08:40 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Kenny MacAskill MP</dc:creator>
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<title>Soapbox – Between a Rock and a Hard Place</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/soapbox-between-a-rock-and-a-hard-place</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ The emptiness of the “Autumn referendum” rhetoric has been exposed oft times before. But now hard facts confront the delusion of a change of heart coming from a Prime Minister who neither possesses a scintilla of compassion for anything other than himself, nor any sympathy for Scottish Democracy.  ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2021 17:36:38 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Kenny MacAskill MP</dc:creator>
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<title>Brexit: Scottish fishing was sold out by UK in 1973 and the Tories have done it again</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/brexit-scottish-fishing-was-sold-out-by-uk-in-1973-and-the-tories-have-done-it-again</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ The Tories will pay a heavy price for their duplicity on fishing as its seared in the Scottish soul. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2021 15:12:25 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Kenny MacAskill MP</dc:creator>
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<title>Rangers FC: Malicious prosecution of club&amp;apos;s administrators may require Lord Advocate James Wolffe&amp;apos;s resignation</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/rangers-fc-malicious-prosecution-of-clubs-administrators-may-require-lord-advocate-james-wolffes-resignation</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/rangers-fc-malicious-prosecution-of-clubs-administrators-may-require-lord-advocate-james-wolffes-resignation</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ If the story that the administrators of Rangers FC are to be paid £21 million in compensation for a malicious prosecution is even partly true, then it’s not a statement to Parliament but his resignation that the Lord Advocate should be tendering. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2021 14:57:58 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Kenny MacAskill MP</dc:creator>
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<title>Scottish Parliament election: Holyrood vote can and should go ahead – Kenny MacAskill</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/scottish-parliament-election-holyrood-vote-can-and-should-go-ahead-kenny-macaskill</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ I’m loathe to disagree with my good friend Henry McLeish but, on whether the Scottish elections should proceed in May, I must. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2021 05:52:41 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Kenny MacAskill MP</dc:creator>
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<title>End of the Line for the Lord Advocate</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/end-of-the-line-for-the-lord-advocate</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Is it the end of the line for the post of Lord Advocate or at least in the the hybrid role that it
presently possesses? It always was an anachronism post but the actions of the current incumbent
have almost certainly tarnished it, probably ensuring long overdue separation of its responsibilities and powers. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2021 10:53:48 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Kenny MacAskill MP</dc:creator>
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