EVERY INDYREF needs its eve of poll “just to make sure” Vow. In 2014 it was tax powers, transport police and new welfare powers. Imagine if,
A DEAR FRIEND of mine died recently, a very active man who was in so many committees and had so many hobbies that under normal
HAVING BEEN GIVEN the opportunity to write a defence for the Union, for me there was only one topic to look at – the one
SCOTLAND HAS UNFETTERED ACCESS to the wider UK market. The UK is the overwhelmingly critical market for Scotland’s economy accounting for £51.2bn of sales, almost
THE SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT has long since stopped playing by the rules, and what is more, it will be allowed to continue to do so by
THE LIBERAL DEMOCRAT PARTY finds itself lost at sea, rudderless, without sail or paddle, and devoid of compass. Famously, Odyseuss spent ten years afloat after
A NUMBER OF previous articles in this series have looked at the EU’s fisheries agreement with Norway. The first two of these totted up who
AS WE BEGIN to unlock the lockdown the government needs to be bold and take some genuinely radical initiatives. I would like to suggest two.
AT LAST, we are now seeing some signs of hope in the battle against Coronavirus. At Renaissance Care, since our first resident tested positive for
THE PREVIOUS three articles in this series looked at the EU’s fisheries agreement with Norway. The first two of these totted up who caught how
WHEN THE SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT decided to seek emergency powers to allow it to take over independent sector care homes it deems have “fallen short” during the
WHEREAS the previous two articles in this series, Do the Northern Agreements benefit Scotland and the UK? and The Northern Agreements: who benefits most? looked at what the EU