Interesting Links for 08-02-2012

• Mandarins 'freeze out' Alex Salmond' s civil servant from independence talks - Telegraph
  'permanent secretaries from all the Whitehall departments no longer discuss Scotland if Sir Peter Housden, the Scottish Executive’s permanent secretary, is present.'
  (tags: posttofacebook news democracy fairness politics Scottish independence Scotland UK interesting )
• Top mandarin ‘reminds’ staff of bias rules in wake of Housden comments - Politics - Scotsman.com
  (tags: civil service Scotland Scottish independence politics relates to another of today's links interesting )