Where Dragons’ Den should stop and some proper work begin
The Tory Government’s plan for a competition to identify innovation is an X-Factor answer to a Nobel question
Read More »Where Dragons’ Den should stop and some proper work begin
The Tory Government’s plan for a competition to identify innovation is an X-Factor answer to a Nobel question
Read More »Where Dragons’ Den should stop and some proper work begin
Salmond’s views on rugby opens up a difficult question for balanced discussion of Scotland’s future
David Cameron is in Morrisons picking up his messages? You’d think he was trying to differentiate himself from rich bankers or something…
Surely the week’s news should dispell any suggestion that the Royal Family is just a bit of harmless fun
In today’s Scotsman academic Arthur Midwinter claims that the Scottish Government is not being honest about statistics. This would not make them an isolate case…
Read More »Entirely neutral government statistics? Really? Where?
Rector-elect of Edinburgh University looks at the proposals for reform of the governance of universities and finds a promising start.
Read More »This is real progress in the reform of universities
Sometimes it really is a bit galling to hear Westminster politicians criticising the level of scrutiny at Holyrood – and today is one of those days…
Read More »Parliamentary democracy and the art of the expected
People on the left might be expected to be first in line to celebrate the removal of Fred Goodwin’s knighthood – but we know a distraction when we see one…
Read More »Why amn’t I cheering about the lynching of Goodwin?
A new report from Scottish CND looks in detail at potential alternative locations for Trident and argues that none of these are viable. Read the report at www.banthebomb.org/ne/images/stories/pdfs/nowheretogo.pdf
Not only is Knighthood-gate a distraction from the rest of the annual bonus round, can it be a coincidence it comes as the Welfare Bill makes the commons?