Douglas Chapman: UK governments put industrial strategy on the scrap heap
I COULDN’T have put it better than Lord Mandelson when he described the UK economy as being “stuck in a fearful hole”.
I COULDN’T have put it better than Lord Mandelson when he described the UK economy as being “stuck in a fearful hole”.
AT my last meeting as chair of the Westminster All-Party Parliamentary Group on Catalonia, I was fortunate enough to host Catalan MEP Clara Ponsati as our main speaker and I couldn’t have made a better choice.
THE First Minister earlier this month announced plans to create a dynamic government ministry to drive industrial policy once we become independent. This is something I welcomed
READING the Resolution Foundation think tank’s comprehensive new report Ending Stagnation – A New Economic Strategy for Britain was both a sobering experience and an uplifting one.
THERE’S been quite the stooshie recently about independence. And not from the usual Unionist quarters I may add.
IT’S six years since Catalonia held its referendum on self-determination ...
RESILIENCE is a word you have probably seen pop up across a wide range of newspaper articles on government policy, climate ambition or the latest sustainable business models.
THIS month’s edition of the Scottish Business Monitor report, now in its 25th year, has come at an important time in our leadership contest for our next first minister.
LEADERSHIP elections by their very nature are blunt and bruising events. No party is immune to this and no individual exempt.
IT’S not very often that I start an article with a quote from a LibDem, but I feel Tim Farron’s recent quip in reaction to Michael Gove’s climate-crippling decision to approve the Cumbrian coal mine deserves a mention.
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