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...

 I was at an event last year where I was asked to list three books that have most influenced my thinking. One of those was The Spirit Level ...

 The Scottish Government has published its draft budget for the coming year. I wrote a pre-budget briefing for the Jimmy Reid Foundation o...

 Let’s talk about water and wastewater. A subject that is rarely discussed in Scotland for two main reasons. Firstly, it rains a lot, so we ...

  Keep Britain Working is the final report of the Mayfield Review into the issues surrounding ill-health and disability in the workplace. ...

 I was speaking at an EIS conference last Saturday on the challenges facing our democracy. It prompted me to examine the evidence more close...

 Following the publication of its new Defence Strategy, the UK Government has now released its Defence Industrial Strategy , titled 'Mak...