Oil exploration – risk and reward
The oil industry is still important to Scotland but that is all the more reason for absolute transparency about what are the real risks involved.
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Regulation keeps us in the light, but in the dark there must be compassion
The terrible case of the death of Alison Hume makes clear the tension between regulation which protects us from harm and compassion which reminds us why we have the regulation in the first place.
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How forgiving we are of crime – when it’s business leaders
More than £45bn of fraud was perpetrated last year, mainly by senior business managers. That we will do nothing about this is predictable; that we don’t even seem interested in talking about it is surely an accommodation too far.
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Poor bus vultures
Free money isn’t enough for those complaining about being asked to run ‘private’ bus services. They want you to think that they are a business and the state is the customer when it’s the other way round.
Why Britain won’t solve the riots
A Commission casts Britain in its own images, blaming the poor for poverty and largely excusing the corporations for causing it. And they wonder why people are angry.
Can you reform a lump of congealed money?
The Tory fundraising scandal depresses more in the knowledge that it is systemic and endemic and will not be changed than in any sense of surprise
Not waving, not even drowning, just bobbing up and down
The Scottish Tory Party Conference is not a sight of Tories in Crisis and it is certainly not a vision of Tory Revival. It is simply a static and fairly marginal strand of Scottish politics.
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Scavenger strategy won’t change Britain or Scotland
For the SNP and Labour to respond to the unpopular bits of the Budget without convincing us this is part of a realistic programme for the transformation of society is simply failure hiding in a sheen of victory.
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Do you feel stupid? Just wait for this budget.
We await with baited breath a budget we are not suppose to understand by people who don’t want us to know what they’re doing and their pals who don’t want to get caught doing it.
Devolve the Crown Estates, but do it properly
Trying to devolve powers over the head of those below is wrong, but so is hollowing out the only layer of government at the local level what would be worth devolving powers to.