Not a good day at the office for George Osborne. Up to the dispatch box to tell us that the coalition's main political promise would be ...

Ballot papers will start dropping through members letterboxes this week for the election of a Leader and Deputy Leader of the Scottish Labou...

Comparisons with Nordic countries are in vogue with the Cabinet Secretary for Education recently extolling the merits of the Swedish free sc...

I was speaking at a fringe meeting on pensions at today's Scottish Labour Party conference. Thanks to CfS for organising it. I have pr...

I was a guest on the BBC's 'Call Kaye' programme this morning discussing the 49% increase in directors pay. Rightly, there was a...

This is European Health and Safety Week when we seek to raise awareness of workplace health and safety. This year's events take place...

I was speaking at our fringe meeting at the SNP conference today. The theme was public service reform. I set out the key recommendations of ...