INHERITANCE TAX is not only double taxation on the middle classes, it is an expensive and ineffective way of raising government revenue. With the cost
THE END of a regime can occur in different ways. There is, of course, violent insurrection. Or the democratic process can unseat an incumbent. Relentless
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SOME MEMBERS of the House of Lords have written a letter to the Times complaining the retained EU regulations will be removed by ministers without
MSP and ex-First Minister Nicola Sturgeon was at Holyrood last week, where she bumped into the media and gave an impromptu little speech in the
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WHO HASN’T been spell-bound by the drama unfolding in Scottish politics since Nicola Sturgeon’s shock resignation? When she resigned, I wrote about tectonic plates shifting,
THE Black Maternal Health report, published this month, looked at ‘Disparities in outcomes for ethnic mothers’. Any study that looks for ways to improve health
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Cognitive biases in seven strategic decisions that led to Culloden HERBERT SIMON was awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1976 for (to quote the
IF GOD MADE Scotland man, then he’d come up with Nicola Sturgeon. He’d mix together a Scottish terrier, a no-nonsense school mistress, a Braveheart script,
Hameesh al-Qobson’s diary: the view after leaving the Maghreb 14 April 2023 REPULSED by the thought of returning too suddenly to Yousavian Scotland, I decide