by The Editor | Mar 3, 2018 | Politics
Reported in Scottish Housing News today: ‘Key benefits will be future-proofed to ensure they hold their value in real terms under Scotland’s new social security system, social security minister Jeane Freeman has said. Following earlier commitments to have annual rises...
by The Editor | Mar 3, 2018 | Politics
There’s a problem in all of this talk of ‘amending’ Brexit-related legislation. To be more accurate, there are a great many problems in all this. But I want to focus on just one. Or maybe two, if something else occurs to me while I’m writing, as often happens. The...
by The Editor | Mar 3, 2018 | Politics
Ooops that should read EI (Energy Institute) president. My brain, damaged by living through the 60s and 70s, misread the Energy Voice headline today: ‘There’s more to the North Sea than ‘boom and bust’, EI president says’ Anyway, the argument he presents is an...
by The Editor | Mar 3, 2018 | Politics
And so it came to pass that Richard Leonard played the English card. <rolls eyes> Have to admit I did think he would take a little longer to do this but then again I didn’t expected him to be so bad a leader. Watching him jiggle at FMQs each week is cringworthy....
by The Editor | Mar 2, 2018 | Politics
Yesterday was the day Mundell accepted the reality of another independence referendum. It was also the day the establishment blocked the Scottish government in the Scottish parliament. These were both parts of the same game. After what has been a particularly slow...
