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Paul Godzik
Paul Godzik is currently Councillor for the Meadows and Morningside area and is the Labour Spokesperson for Education in the City Chambers. He lived locally in the Edinburgh Southern area for some 10 years, and currently lives in Shandon with … Continue reading
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Jim Eadie
Jim Eadie is the SNP’s candidate for the Edinburgh Southern seat in this year’s, May 2011, election for the Scottish Parliament at Holyrood. Jim has 20 years of business experience. You can read more about Jim’s career, and his party’s … Continue reading
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Margo MacDonald
Margo MacDonald MSP is currently the only Independent Member of the Scottish Parliament, having been elected for the Lothians region. A local resident in The Grange, Margo has had a long career in Scottish politics, and has given successful and … Continue reading
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Powering ahead: recent economic tigers – China, India and Brazil
Dr Mark Aspinwall is Head of Politics & International Relations in the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh. He has a full staff profile available on the University’s website which you can access using this … Continue reading
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The future of Scottish Education
Isobel Lindsay comes with a long history of invovlement in Scottish Politics. Professionally, she was a lecturer in sociology at Strathclyde University, and was a member of the Scottish constitutional Convention. A peace activitst, Isobel is currently vice-convener for Scottish … Continue reading
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Rebuilding, repairing and reinvigorating Scottish infrastructure
The Scottish Futures Trust is the independent company responsible for improving value for money in public infrastructure investment projects such as schools, transport, health and regeneration. One of its main functions is to find new ways to raise affordable finance … Continue reading
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Hot off the press
Bill Jamieson is well known to regular speaker at our meetings, and we can always rely on him to entertain us with a topical issue of the day. Bill is Executive Editor of The Scotsman writing regularly on finance and … Continue reading
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Debt relief in the world’s poorest countries
Alys Mumford, Outreach Officer for Jubilee Scotland, runs their new Debt’s Not Done project, which aims to help groups across Scotland to campaign effectively for debt justice. Jubilee Scotland is an independent coalition of organisations and local groups across Scotland … Continue reading
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Morningside Justice & Peace Group 