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TWO EVENTS have confirmed the failure of the Scottish and UK governments to create ‘just transition’ to green energy in Scotland in recent days.The first was a vote by the...

LAST WEEK, in response to a question from Labour MSP Neil Findlay MSP, Nicola Sturgeon argued in the Scottish Parliament that the decision to discharge infected people from hospital to care...

ON International Day of Disabled People, many of us will be thinking of ways to raise awareness of the attitudinal, economic, political, and social barriers we need to address to...

THE COVID PANDEMIC has had a huge impact on many businesses across Scotland. No matter your business governance structure, no matter whether you are a long-serving local family business, a...

THE DEUS EX MACHINA was a device in ancient Greek drama, its literal translation being something like ‘god from the machine’. When a plot had got too convoluted or gone...

STOP THE PRESSES – David Steel has had an idea. According to early reports, the former Liberal leader will devote a speech next Tuesday to arguing in favour of the...

Police Scotland have seen an increase of calls relating to child abuse, as well as an increase in recorded cases of online grooming. “For those children whose homes are not...

THERE’S been another fight over the weekend about how Scotland has been handling the Covid pandemic compared to England. On Sunday, the first minister was challenged by Andrew Marr on...

OUR PLANET “is broken” and humanity is locked in a “suicidal” war upon the natural world – so United Nations general secretary Antonio Guterres will warn today in a speech...

WHEN Emmanuel Macron came to office 2017, his promise to the French business community and state is that he would achieve long wished-for ‘reforms’ (cuts to workers rights and social...