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David Whitton, former special adviser to Donald Dewar. He appeared on BBC2's Conference programme on Sunday evening. His blog http://davidwhittonmsp.org.uk/about_david provides the following information -

"David Whitton was educated at Morgan Academy in Dundee.
He began his journalistic career with DC Thomson in 1970 before moving to the Fife Free Press and then the Evening Express in Aberdeen, specialising in local government activities. David worked at The Scotsman in Glasgow for three years then moved to the Daily Record where he became Industrial Editor in 1983.
From 1986-1996, David worked at Scottish Television in a variety of roles including producer of news and current affairs programmes, Lobby Correspondent at Westminster, presenter of political programming and on screen news reporter. He was Head of Public Affairs from 1994-1996. David's time at Scottish Television was followed by a short period as a Director of the PR company, Media House.
David was elected to the Scottish Parliament in May 2007 for the constituency of Strathkelvin & Bearsden. He is a member of the Finance Committee, a member of the Labour Trade Union Group, and a Board member of the Scottish Parliamentary Business Exchange."

David was also a speaker at the FP Dinner held in the Apex Hotel.

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Interesting Dave! And maybe not so trivial.
I looked at his latest blog. He makes an intertesting statement:

Scotland’s greatest resource is her people and their talents must not be allowed to go to waste.

I wonder how exactly we might go about determining if the Scottish Government (or indeed any government since I suspect that politicians in every country might say the same) is actually suceeding (or not) in turning this assertion into a reality?