NATWEST announced on 29th April that it would move its group head office to England if Scotland were to leave the UK. That would cost
THE ISSUE OF the currency of an independent Scotland has bedevilled the SNP, and so it should. The SNP seems to have accepted that Scotland
PLATITUDES are une partie du jeu, part of the game of politics. These statements, often containing moral content, become too overused to remain interesting. But when
ONE OF SCOTLAND’S most experienced care home operators has revealed that Fife Council plans to construct three care homes which, per bed, will be the
HINDSIGHT can be a wonderful thing, but Jeane Freeman – the retiring Scottish Government Health Secretary – deserves credit for the honesty of her comments
THE CLOSURE of Ravenscraig in 1992 spelt the beginning of the end for ‘Scotland’s proud manufacturing tradition’. It was unnecessary. Just two years later, previous claims British
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
PANDEMIC MACHINATIONS started when China used the WHO, headed by their Marxist placeman Tedros Adhanom to spread the unscientific notion that strict lockdown was the best way
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
SCOTLAND’S RECORD in entrepreneurship, business and creativity was literally world leading. I recall gazing in wonder at a large tapestry at the Clyde Port Authority
CONSIDER THESE QUOTES on the questions of formulating foreign policy: “There are no permanent friends or enemies, but permanent interests” Lord Palmerston Prime Minister of
I BELONG to a sceptical minority who believe Scotland’s handling of the Coronavirus pandemic has been a disastrous overreaction (as for the UK), during which