IN the winter of 2010 I started a new career in the energy industry. The oil price was as high as confidence was in the sector – and the UK Treasury was reaping the rewards.
IT was Gandhi who said that the measure of a civilisation is how it treats its weakest members ... I quoted him in a debate in Westminster last week about the impact of the pandemic on refugees worldwide.
IT seems like every day in Westminster is like another episode of ‘Carry on up the Commons’ and Scottish Questions today was no different.
WHEN the going gets tough, Livingston gets organised. Even though it was the run-up to Christmas and most folk had planned to be getting their own homes and families ready for the festive period, within an hour of opening on Saturday, December 22, the Kaiam community hub was stacked full of toys, hundreds of pounds of vouchers and cash, gift boxes, selection boxes and food.
THE proposed new BBC Scotland channel presents a unique opportunity for the broadcaster to regain the trust that it lost with so many people in Scotland in 2014.
ANYONE who was worried about the controversial US-EU trade deal TTIP needs to take notice of the UK Government’s trade Bill, which slipped quietly into Parliament in the shadow of the EU Withdrawal Bill. The trade Bill could pave the way for post-Brexit trade deals just like TTIP (or worse). So we could be looking at trade deals that give multinational companies their own court system by which to sue governments, threaten public services, including the NHS, and undermine laws and regulations designed to protect public health and the environment.
