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Chris Smith wrote a new post 13 years, 3 months ago
The debate over whether powers should be decentralised in the Highlands came to the fore today, as Caithness Sutherland & Ross MSP, Rob Gibson, declared the return of power to communities his ‘personal p […]
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Chris Smith wrote a new post 13 years, 5 months ago
I've been thinking we should have more debate between meetings of the Nordic Horizons group. (for more info see http://www.nordichorizons.org ) And maybe your responses can help us get the best focus for meetings […]
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Chris Smith wrote a new post 13 years, 8 months ago
Lesley posted this on Facebook yesterday ;
Thanks to Dr Audrey MacDougall for sending over this document sent to her by Prof John Veit-Wilson of Newcastle University. He says, “In these troubled political times, […] -
Chris Smith wrote a new post 13 years, 8 months ago
The North Sea oil spill has made our High North debate horribly topical all of a sudden. So has the news that Statoil’s latest North Sea oil discovery (in Aldous Major South) is the biggest in 20 years. So is t […]
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Chris Smith wrote a new post 13 years, 10 months ago
Is the far north safe in Nordic hands? 13:30 – 14:30, Committee Room 1, FREE.
The Arctic region contains a high proportion of the world’s fish stocks, includes important breeding grounds and has huge untapped s […] -
Chris Smith wrote a new post 13 years, 12 months ago
“The world in 2050 will be radically different from today. Northern countries – notably Canada, Russia and Scandinavia – will rise at the expense of southern ones.”
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Chris Smith wrote a new post 14 years, 4 months ago
Journalist Lesley Riddoch and activist Dan Wynn organised a launch meeting in Holyrood during April 2010 introduced by an MSP from each of the main Holyrood parties and conducted in a round table format to include […]
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Chris Smith wrote a new post 14 years, 4 months ago
Nordic Horizons is an informal group of Scottish professionals who want to raise the standard of knowledge and debate about life and policy in the Nordic nations. We’ve been holding public meetings in Edinburgh s […]
