Month: June 2020

Highland Council is teetering on the brink. It has been the hardest hit in the UK financially from the Covid-19 crisis in terms of cash lost per head of population, ...

Well that didn’t take long, did it. Not even 24 hours had passed since the Scottish Government announced its plan to boost the Scottish economy to assist in Scotland’s recovery ...

Tax haven firms are buying up large swathes of the capital, with many of Edinburgh’s most iconic buildings now owned offshore, The Ferret can reveal. Registers of Scotland (RoS) data ...

An IPPR report has found that 1/3 of young people could be jobless by Christmas. “Following the great recession of 2008, the Government brought forward a Future Jobs Fund targeted ...

One of the nuclear power reactors at Torness in East Lothian has been shut down following a problem with a valve, prompting increased concerns about its future. EDF Energy, the ...

JOHN SWINNEY’S announcement earlier this week that Scottish schools will reopen full-time in August with no physical distancing if the Coronavirus is sufficiently suppressed has not ended controversy over the ...

It’s a sign of the strange and frankly deeply disturbing Twitterisation of political debate in the UK that Robert Jenrick is not sacked as a Minister for a classic case of corruption, ...

What have Scottish Conservative MPs Andrew Bowie, David Duguid, Alister Jack, John Lamont, David Mundell, and Douglas Ross all got in common? There are so many possible answers to that ...

This week I am joined via Zoom by one of the nicest people in Scottish politics, Glasgow North East MP Anne McLaughlin. Anne won the seat from Labour’s Willie Bain ...

“CLOSED” was how PM Boris Johnson described what I’ll call the Jenrick Affair. We now know the UK Housing Minister Robert Jenrick shared friendly texts and a meal with media ...