Month: June 2022
Rising inflation weakens outlook for Scottish economic growth in 2023
Getting the ‘naw ye cannaes’ in early
Aaand we’re off, you can tell when the British nationalists are rattled when they wheel out “experts” to tell Scotland “Naw, ye cannae” because we’re too wee. too shtupit, too poor, too insignificant [delete as appropriate]. The latest entry in the genre has been dredged up by the Herald’s resident SNP…
Sometimes a ‘gamechanger’ really is just that
Scottish employers and employees feel the impact of rising skills shortage
“Scottish democracy can’t be a prisoner of Boris Johnson or any other Prime Minister”
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Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced in Parliament today that there will be a second independence referendum to be held on Thursday, October 19th, 2023. Nicola Sturgeon said the referendum has already been referred to the Supreme Court, by the Lord Advocate. She hopes it will be allowed, without a…
Well we are the people and we say yes
The First Minister began her much anticipated statement to Holyrood by quoting from the Scottish Claim of Right which affirmed the sovereign right of the Scottish people to choose the form of government best suited to their needs. She went on, quoting the late Canon Kenyon Wright who was instrumental in…
Offshore Energies UK says oil and gas contributes £16bn to Scottish economy
The laying on of hands
British nationalism: making a mockery of Scottish democracy
The anti-independence parties and their friends in the media are convinced that the British Government has “blocked off all legal routes to indyref2 next year,” according to a headline in the increasingly British nationalist Herald newspaper on Sunday. The actual article was more nuanced, Professor Ciaran Martin, the man responsible for…
Scotland urged to ditch ‘high cost and low efficiency’ hydrogen fuel
Space experts unite at Beyond Launch to celebrate opportunities in Ayrshire
The ‘Beyond Launch’ conference at the HALO Enterprise and Innovation Hub in Kilmarnock saw Scotland’s space industry experts present the benefits of Prestwick’s space cluster, showcasing the opportunities that space supply chain activities can bring to the local economy, including the creation of thousands of new jobs. Source
BP finally pays tax on North Sea operations, company report says
Santander to cut 87 jobs at Glasgow branch and move roles to India
The day that Britain died – rights ripped from Scotland’s devolution settlement
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History may record that Britain finally died the day the UK Government decided to rip the European Convention on Human Rights from the heart of Scotland’s devolution settlement. The leader of the group which drew up the Convention, in 1950, was a Scottish lawyer, Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe. As a prosecutor…