
Lobbyists just love Holyrood’s Cross Party Groups
AFTER RECENT scandals over MP’s moonlighting as lobbyists at the UK Parliament and receiving considerable amounts of cash for so doing, it has been suggested

AFTER RECENT scandals over MP’s moonlighting as lobbyists at the UK Parliament and receiving considerable amounts of cash for so doing, it has been suggested

LIKE ANYONE ELSE young enough to know how streaming works and sufficiently tech savvy to install an ad blocker on my browser, I don’t encounter

SHELL has announced that it will cease to have a joint UK-Dutch head office establishment and that the group parent will be in the UK.

REGULAR READERS may have noticed I’ve been absent for the last couple of weeks. Far from being for any mysterious reason, I would rather you

THE WORLD’S GONE MAD, you couldn’t make it up and lunatics have taken over the asylum. I hear myself saying these phrases every day. Life

IT IS THAT TIME of year again when everyone is suggesting reasons for tax cuts or tax rises in Wednesday’s budget. I would like to

I THINK after almost a decade of watching the independence movement I have safely arrived at the conclusion independence will never happen nor will another

IN 1848, a few years after the first Anglo-Afghan wars, Lord Palmerston stood in the Houses of Parliament and said “we have no eternal allies,

THE OPENING this week of the Scottish Parliament was an auspicious affair. Politicians mingled with royalty, backs were slapped, and children were ‘high-fived’. This was

On Friday 18 September Vivian Linacre, a few years into his nineties, slipped away from us in his Perth home after an illness born bravely.

IN THE TWENTY YEARS since 9/11, instinctive unity has been replaced by officially-imposed uniformity in the United States and across the West. As planes crashed

With apologies to Rumplestiltskin ONCE UPON A TIME in Scotland there was a First Minister who promised the people they would all live happily ever