Monday, 27 February 2012
Council Tax and local democracy
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Stirling Council has become the only local authority in Scotland to cut the Council Tax this year following a Labour/Tory amendment to the b...
Saturday, 18 February 2012
Independence referendum
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At the risk of adding to the many column inches on this subject, I will offer a few of my own thoughts on the immediate process issues havin...
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Thursday, 16 February 2012
Jobs and crowding out
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As another 16,000 Scots joined the unemployed in the last quarter it is worth looking back at the ideology that drives this crazy policy of ...
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Thursday, 9 February 2012
Council Budgets
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Councils across Scotland are setting their budgets in the context of a 6% cut in the allocation from the Scottish Government. That resulted ...
Saturday, 4 February 2012
National Libraries Day
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Today is National Libraries Day. An opportunity to celebrate our public library service at a time when it is under threat from public sector...
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Tuesday, 24 January 2012
Facility time for workplace union representatives
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Today’s Scotsman is running the latest instalment in a series of attacks on trade union facility time, with a focus on the public sector. I...
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Tuesday, 17 January 2012
Fairness in Employment?
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The Prime Minister is making a big play of his 'fairness' agenda at present. So let's see how far his concept of fairness stretc...
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