IN football commentator parlance, last week was like deja vu all over again for those of us in the North East, after a UK Government once again declined to invest in carbon capture and storage at Peterhead.
KING Charles’s visit to Holyrood last Saturday to mark the 25th anniversary of devolution once again raised the question of the role of the monarchy in an independent Scotland – and indeed, whether it should have one at all ...
WELL, that didn’t take long, did it? Less than three months into Labour’s self-described mission-led, change-driven government and already, we can see they are treating their positions not as an opportunity to be leading a “government of service”, but as an opportunity for more self-service than you’d find at a Tesco checkout.
LABOUR’S plan to means test the Winter Fuel Allowance will hit around 860,000 pensioners in Scotland to the tune of £500 per household per year ...
A COUPLE of things have become very clear, very quickly – hopefully even to the most politically disinterested of folk – about the way Labour is choosing to present its political messages from Downing Street. Firstly, there’s the attempts to claim that having now “audited the books”, the finances of the UK Government are “much worse’ than they were expecting.
IT’S no exaggeration to say this week will be looked back on as a pivotal one in Scottish politics. Not only for the SNP, but also for the prospects for independence more generally.
