The new Programme for Government signals a renewed effort to advance social care reform. After the National Care Service (NCS) debacle, th...

 With Andy Burnham taking over as Prime Minister and publishing his devolution plan , it was inevitable that there would be another effort t...

 In my July briefing for the Jimmy Reid Foundation, I examined the planned growth of AI data centres in Scotland. I didn't have space t...

 As it looks inevitable that Andy Burnham will be the next Prime Minister, we should consider what this might mean in policy terms. But firs...

Another Scottish Parliament election, and it's plus ça change . The phrase coined by the French critic, Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr in 1...

 I was just logging on to make a presentation at a European defence workshop, when Lord George Robertson’s ‘weapons not welfare’ speech bro...

 I spent some time at the Pensions UK Investment conference in Edinburgh this week. I still do some consultancy work in the sector, and I am...