Vladimir Putin is the Hitler of the 21st century. His actions in Ukraine are a nasty replica of the German invasion of Czechoslovakia which began in 1938.
Have you sometimes wondered how many wheels have to come off a bus before it crashes?
Sometimes, belatedly, the Scottish Government inches in the right economic direction.
THE words we did not hear from Nicola Sturgeon last week as she kindly gave us some of our freedom back were “Boris got it right about Omicron and I got it wrong”.
Although it may not yet feel like it, the Covid crisis will soon be over. A combination of weakening effect, vaccine take-up, partial herd immunity and better treatments for those who are ill means the acute phase of the pandemic in the UK is drawing to a close. Think days and weeks not months. Hopefully the politicians will keep up and our full freedoms are rapidly restored.
One of the problems with the SNP Government in Scotland is there are very few people within it who understand the private-sector economy. There are many who have public sector, media or legal skills but not those of business – they understand how to spend money but not how to make it.
In economic terms, it is dangerous to make something free for which there is unlimited demand, limited supply and a real cost.
Politicians have a bad habit of thinking they create jobs; they don’t, they destroy them.
One of the qualities a real Government needs to have and which the Scottish “Government” lacks is courage
Rural Scotland – though wonderful in many ways – is economically challenged.
