Friday, 24 December 2010
Keir Hardie
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My pre-Christmas reading is Bob Holman's sympathetic study of Kier Hardie . Appropriate reading for Christmas as Hardie was a Christian ...
Thursday, 23 December 2010
Protection of Workers Bill
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SNP, Tory and Liberal MSPs yesterday, sadly but predictably, turned their collective backs on violence at work and voted down the Protection...
Wednesday, 22 December 2010
Scottish Futures Trust
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The Scottish Futures Trust has sneaked out its annual report just before Christmas. When you read it, you can hardly blame them! The headl...
Tuesday, 21 December 2010
Protection of Workers Bill
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The Protection of Workers (S) Bill is to be debated in the Scottish Parliament tomorrow at Stage 1. The Economy Energy and Tourism Committ...
Sunday, 19 December 2010
Fair taxes
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The Sunday Herald asked me to write a comment piece on taxation for today's paper. Taxation is a subject that politicians hate to talk ...
Thursday, 16 December 2010
Scotland Bill and bonds
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Parliamentary scrutiny of the Scotland Bill has started with the unusual sight of a UK Treasury minister appearing before a committee of the...
Health spending
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Interesting report from Audit Scotland today giving a financial overview of NHS Scotland. The NHS in Scotland spent £10.9bn last year, one t...
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