This weekend is the annual seminar of UNISON's Scottish utility branches covering our Energy, Water & Environment service groups. UN...

I was in parliament yesterday primarily to support a private members bill promoted by Hugh Henry MSP that seeks to address the unacceptably ...

An interesting meeting yesterday with colleagues across the UK looking at developments in the delivery of council services. Budget cuts d...

In 2006 the SNP published proposals for a Scottish Futures Trust. This was essentially a means of raising public finance to fund public infr...

Two of my meetings this week have focussed on the proposals on minimum pricing of alcohol in the Alcohol (Scotland) Bill that is being debat...

My travel reading this week has been the latest Fabian Society publication The Solidarity Society by Tim Horton and James Gregory. This is ...

A report by an English research group claims that the NHS in England provides better value for money than elsewhere in the UK. A key reason ...