It’s heartening to see how conversations about national parks have moved on in the last few years. After two decades of scant attention, and despite the sustained efforts of dedicated…
Another Council Tax ‘Freeze’? A previous post here commented on the occasional lapse that all parties [ and some leading figures in those parties ] make when it comes to…
One of the best short letters of the last week was in “ The Guardian “. That letter read [from memory] : “ How will the Tories be able to…
The Edinburgh Tram[s] Inquiry In amongst the flurry of interest caused by the publication of the [ a very long 960 single spaced pages] ‘Edinburgh Tram Inquiry’ there are two…
Today, ‘sustainability’ or 'sustainable' is a label plastered all over adverts for clothes, food, cosmetics, appliances, and other products as organisations claim that their sourcing of materials, or manufacturing or…
Photo by fauxels on Pexels.com This CSPP21 Guest Blog is created by Alba MacGillivray, a politics student at the University of Edinburgh . ‘Influencers’ are those who promote products or…
We [ whether here in Scotland or throughout the UK] have some of the oldest and coldest houses in Europe . We can see that in the heat leakage data…
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Budgets come in 3 forms.... There are the dull [ though we have not had many of those in recent memory]. Those that explode spectacularly [ think Kwasi Kwarteng just…
Rebalancing the UK Dave Watson is a semi-retired former Scottish trade union policy wonk, now working on a range of projects. "All views are my own, not any of the…
In 14 days John Swinney, the DFM and acting Finance Secretary, will announce his Scottish Budget for next year. His is not a task many would envy; he has already…