New Statesman - <![CDATA[George Rosie]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/george_rosie en <![CDATA[A new face for Auld Reekie]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200007030023 http://www.newstatesman.com/200007030023 Mon, 03 Jul 2000 12:00:00 GMT George Rosie New Statesman Scotland - Edinburgh is soon to have its very own branch of that ultimate symbol of metropolitan sophistication, Harvey Nicks. And it doesn't end there. George Rosiereports on the city's building boom

]]> <![CDATA[The best-laid schemes of lefties]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200005080025 http://www.newstatesman.com/200005080025 Mon, 08 May 2000 12:00:00 GMT George Rosie New Statesman Scotland - Robert Burns as a hero of the left is built on the myth that he was an 18th-century Che Guevara. But he was actually an Establishment figure

]]> <![CDATA[There may be troubles ahead]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200004240027 http://www.newstatesman.com/200004240027 Mon, 24 Apr 2000 12:00:00 GMT George Rosie New Statesman Scotland - A report calling for Anglican bishops to be installed in the Church of Scotland has been well received. But the opposition is already mustering, writesGeorge Rosie

]]> <![CDATA[What if Scotsmen had guns?]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200004030029 http://www.newstatesman.com/200004030029 Mon, 03 Apr 2000 12:00:00 GMT George Rosie New Statesman Scotland - Celtic hot-headedness may have been crucial to the shaping of modern violent America. George Rosiereports on a disturbing theory

]]> <![CDATA[Coming adrift on the Mound]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200003200026 http://www.newstatesman.com/200003200026 Mon, 20 Mar 2000 12:00:00 GMT George Rosie New Statesman Scotland - The Scottish press long campaigned for devolution. George Rosie looks at why the same media folk have turned hostile to the edifice they helped to erect

]]> <![CDATA[Where does Clark's clout lie?]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200002140027 http://www.newstatesman.com/200002140027 Mon, 14 Feb 2000 12:00:00 GMT George Rosie New Statesman Scotland - The new job of Advocate General has caused a stir among Scottish lawyers. George Rosie asks how much power the position holds

]]> <![CDATA[Let's peeble the judges again]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200001170028 http://www.newstatesman.com/200001170028 Mon, 17 Jan 2000 12:00:00 GMT George Rosie New Statesman Scotland - Political and judicial appointments are too closely entangled for everyone's good, argues George Rosie

]]> <![CDATA[Who are the lairds lording over us?]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/199912130025 http://www.newstatesman.com/199912130025 Mon, 13 Dec 1999 12:00:00 GMT George Rosie New Statesman Scotland - The anonymous owners of vast tracts of Scotland could be anybody from mafia bosses to drug cartels. George Rosiethinks it's time to put an end to the secrecy

]]> <![CDATA[Who's sponging now?]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/199911150028 http://www.newstatesman.com/199911150028 Mon, 15 Nov 1999 12:00:00 GMT George Rosie New Statesman Scotland - Londoners like to claim that their tax pounds subsidise Scotland. The truth is quite the opposite, argues George Rosie

]]> <![CDATA[It's time the Queen ditched the fags]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/199910250027 http://www.newstatesman.com/199910250027 Mon, 25 Oct 1999 12:00:00 GMT George Rosie New Statesman Scotland - Royal warrants on cigarette packets lend smoking a fake respectability. George Rosie wants to consign them to the ashtray

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