Levelling up lies
Boris Johnson is desperate to trumpet at every opportunity how well the UK is performing, its economy growing faster than other G7 nations. Everything is world-beating. We’re at the forefront of all that’s positive....
Category: Economy
Who are the non-doms?
More than 93% of those classified in a recent report as non-doms in 2018 were born abroad. An additional 4% have lived abroad for a substantial period. Non-doms are wealthy, mainly earning over £5...
Food for thought
Fuel shortages and price rises have been hitting the headlines along with price hikes for food and tales of empty shelves in supermarkets. Fuel self-sufficiency is far from the norm and is causing a...
Brexit isn’t working
A Different Bias is a channel started in 2018 by teacher Phil Moorhouse to turn his political rants in the staffroom into videos about Brexit era Britain. Over the past year Phil, described as...
The Union: An aberration? – Part 2
Scotland’s education Much maligned by Unionists, Scotland in fact has a well educated population – the percentage of Scots holding post-secondary school qualifications continues to be the highest in Europe. Our universities are ranked...
The Union: An aberration? – Part 1
Little in the world ever remains the same Why do independent nations join together to form larger, more powerful countries? Presumably mainly for power and to exercise that power over others that are smaller...
Fire and Rehire
The UK Government says its furious at P&O Ferries’ action in sacking with immediate effect 800 of its crew members, conveniently forgetting that just five months ago a bill to end the practice of...
A coronation like no other – Part 1
According to the Telegraph: ‘The Queen is to make a permanent move to Windsor Castle after not staying at Buckingham Palace for two years. The 95-year-old monarch has been “working from home” at the...
Ivan McKee on ambition and confidence
John Drummond is the host of the TNT Show on Independence Live. On episode 92 of the show, broadcast on 2nd March, John interviewed Ivan McKee MSP, Minister for Business, Trade, Tourism and Enterprise....
Scotland is blessed with enormous renewable resources but…
“Scotland is blessed with enormous renewable resources but it’s not blessed with a great many people, and people ultimately use electricity… So the best way to harness Scotland’s renewable resources is to look at...
