IT WAS the Russian dissident Evgeny Zamyatin who wrote that “heretics are the only remedy against the entropy of human thought.” Zamyatin would be surprised
THE SNP’S NEW MANIFESTO is adorned with freebies. Free bus travel for under 22s, free dental care, free bicycles and laptops for children, free music
THE HEALTH of Scots has been sadly neglected by the SNP. While Scottish health spending used to be much higher than that in England, the
THE SNP HAS COST taxpayers some £200m by failing to complete two hugely over-specified ferries in such an astonishing display of incompetence that other motives
FAILING AND DELAYED procurement projects are burning a very big hole in Scottish taxpayers’ pockets – SNP ministers can’t seem to stop themselves from scuppering
THE SNP ARGUES CONSTANTLY that Tory austerity imposed by an overbearing Westminster government is an evil that strongly affects Scotland. The reality is the SNP
WILL THE SNP’S DEALS with Sanjeev Gupta survive, or will all the jobs be lost? All warning lights are flashing red. A witness statement provided
ON THE 7TH OF AUGUST 2012, the Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Act received royal assent. It was the most radical step yet taken in
THE SLOW-MOTION collapse of the SNP’s aluminium deal at Lochaber and its steel deals at Clydebank and Dalzell are now well underway. When Sanjeev Gupta
A NEW energy company was launched in Edinburgh in July 2015. Our Power Energy was pitched as not-for-profit initiative that would alleviate the strain of
ON 25 FEBRUARY Stephen Boyle, Scotland’s Auditor General, released his latest report on the impact of the Coronavirus pandemic. He noted that the Scottish Government
IT ONLY TAKES a few scratches for the SNP’s progressive sheen to begin wearing away. Beneath it, an ugly truth – the nationalist party is
