Who's spoiling for a fight now?

Evening News - Scotland | March 5, 2008| | Copyright

WHO'S a naughty boy, then? Who's to blame for disturbing the harmonious mood music duetted by the governments in Holyrood and Westminster? There were no petted lips to be seen when the main men were McConnell in Edinburgh and Blair in London, were there?

Leave aside the ignored "Concordats" (meetings between both governments and officials, devised to make devolution work efficiently, in the best interests of the people affected by it) during Jack McConnell's time at the top - even if he was the last to know about the G8 Summit at Gleneagles, and had to battle behind the scenes for money to ...

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