Six months has become 22 years. How the hell did that happen?
NICOLA Sturgeon must be feeling a little like the Queen, shaking hands with successive new Tory prime ministers. Count 'em: three since David Cameron stepped down in 2014 and she took over from Alex Salmond. May, Johnson, Truss – it's hard to keep up. Though on the face of it, Liz Truss is likely to be the hardest nut to crack.
The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World
Atom Kraft? Nein Danke, as the stickers said on crumbling 2CVs. My parents drove a VW, but they were dedicated anti-nuclear campaigners who refused to differentiate between civil and military uses of nuclear power. We were doomed either way. I inherited much of their instinctive prejudice against all things nuclear.
SCOTLAND is to lose nearly a million people over the coming decades according to the Scottish Fiscal Commission. That’s 16% of the population, far more than was lost during the Highland Clearances. This is a demographic catastrophe.
SCOTLAND is to lose nearly a million people over the coming decades according to the Scottish Fiscal Commission. That’s 16% of the population, far more than was lost during the Highland Clearances. This is a demographic catastrophe.
SCOTLAND is to lose nearly a million people over the coming decades according to the Scottish Fiscal Commission. That’s 16% of the population, far more than was lost during the Highland Clearances. This is a demographic catastrophe.
“EVEN if we’re to extract every last drop of oil and gas from the North Sea,” said the Scottish Net Zero Secretary Michael Mathieson last week,” it would have no impact on the wholesale price of gas”. Consequently, he went on, anyone who thinks increasing gas production would ease the energy crisis is “kidding themselves”. It wouldn’t make a blind bit of difference to our energy bills.
I HATE to say I told you so – but I did. In January, at the height of the partygate row, I pointed out to those insisting that Boris Johnson was the spawn of the devil that his replacement was likely to be very much worse.
SCOTLAND’S Oil is back! Forecasts of £13bn oil revenues this year have put a spring in nationalist steps. Fossil fuels have closed the GERS fiscal gap and the independence numbers add up once again, according to John Swinney.
