ACCORDING TO THE FACTS set out by the Scottish Government, residents of Scotland can expect to die on average two years earlier than citizens of Britain as
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
NICOLA STURGEON boasted to Holyrood that she was ‘relishing’ her chance to appear before the Inquiry. Now if you are like me and you like
WHEN THE LORD ADVOCATE appeared before the Scottish Parliament committee of inquiry today, after being accused by a former Lord Chancellor of having been “absent
LAST OCTOBER I sent Nicola Sturgeon an email to express my anger at her “Unscientific Mishandling of Coronavirus”. That email is posted online here and is still
BORIS JOHNSON was elected in December 2019 for a variety of reasons. One was undoubtedly to “get Brexit done.” But there were many other reasons
IS IT POSSIBLE to find a more unsuitable candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize than a forced labour programme of a communist state that is
“IT’S JIST GREAT to see folk coming round wi’ oor side’s leaflets son”. So said an old woman in Brickfield, Stonehaven, a few weeks before
IRONICALLY enough it was a former campaign manager of the then Mayor of London Boris Johnson who first coined the name of the political strategy
LAST WEEK saw some unwelcome headlines. ‘Amsterdam ousts London as Europe’s top share trading hub’ crowed the Financial Times. At one level the headline is shocking
ONE OF THE THINGS that I love about Scotland is our cultural tradition of thinking creatively. We seem to be blessed with a distancing that
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