WightBlogs’s Weekly Twitter Updates for 2010-01-03

Breaking News – UK

• Scotland referendum: We need a poetry of the Union to defeat Salmond's freedom shtick
  The Tories are the natural romantics of the Union and should be supplying the passion to hold us together, says Graeme Archer. […]
• Fred Goodwin: a modern-day knight made to suffer a medieval punishment
  Fred Goodwin should challenge the judgment of David Cameron's kangaroo court, argues Charles Moore. […]
• Alex Salmond: will disgraced Lords now be stripped of honours?
  Scottish First Minister suggests other bankers involved in financial crisis and convicted peers should lose titles. […]
• Ed Miliband: cabinet of millionaires will not fight soaring City bonuses
  Affluent backgrounds of Cameron and cabinet put them in "worst position" to curb soaring bonuses for bankers, says Labour leader […]
• Fred Goodwin: decision to strip knighthood was result of 'anti-business hysteria'
  Decision to strip former RBS chief executive Fred Goodwin of knighthood criticised by leading business figure. […]
• Fred Goodwin is shredded: former RBS boss stripped of knighthood
  Whitehall committee of senior civil servants rules that Fred 'The Shred' Goodwin was an "exceptional case", stripping former bank boss of knighthood despite him not having been convicted of criminal offence. […]
• Former RBS chief executive Fred Goodwin stripped of his knighthood
  Disgraced former RBS boss degraded honours system says Cabinet Office, as David Cameron claims it was "right decision". […]
• Vince Cable: footballers deserve lavish pay, bankers don't
  Business Secretary Vince Cable says failure in football is "severely punished", while the City "rewards mediocrity". […]
• Man arrested in connection with prison van escape of John Anslow
  Detectives hunting an "extremely dangerous" murder suspect who escaped from a prison van following a "well-orchestrated armed ambush" have arrested a man in connection with the incident. […]
• Executive pay is 'unjustifiable', says City superwoman Nicola Horlick
  City investment 'superwoman' Nicola Horlick has said it was wrong for executive pay to increase when company profits have struggled. […]