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: Social Justice
“It’s utter crap”
Yesterday the UK government announced it would send asylum seekers to Rwanda to be ‘processed’. However it appears that even if these asylum seekers are accepted as refugees they will not be returned to...
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: a journey into the unknown
Politicians, commentators and posters have for years urged Unionists to make their positive case for the Union. However some of us came to the conclusion years, maybe decades ago that there is no such...
NHS in imminent danger
The Barnett formula was first introduced prior to the 1979 general election by the Labour chief secretary to the Treasury Joel Barnett, after whom the formula is named. Initially it was viewed as a...
Size doesn’t matter
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon’s TED talk on how small countries can make a big impact on climate change. When it comes to tackling climate change, the size of a country doesn’t matter – it’s...
The first 100 days
In her speech today in the Scottish Parliament on her government’s priorities during their first 100 days in office, the First Minister reiterated that her immediate priority was leading Scotland safely through and out...
The Wellbeing Society how we pay for it
Notes on the Social Justice and Fairness Commission’s route map to a fair independent Scotland “Independence ensures that decisions about Scotland are taken by the people who live here. The transfer of powers to...
Contrasts
This was the scene yesterday, the day of Eid, the worldwide Muslim religious holiday that marks the end of the month-long dawn-to-sunset fasting of Ramadan, when Pollokshields residents came out in their hundreds, perhaps...
Children, rights and Tories
The UK government has taken the decision to refer two Holyrood laws to the UK Supreme Court to decide if, in introducing and passing these bills, the Scottish Parliament has gone beyond its devolved...
