Humza Yousaf is right about the need for an economic plan. However his plan is unrealistic and unavailable. Here’s how Scotland can get back to economic growth.
Continue readingScotland Inc – Delivering A Scottish Industrial Strategy
“The Scottish Parliament has been only a partial success, certainly less successful than campaigners hoped for at the onset in 1997. It can do better.”
Nigel Smith was “the most influential campaigner you’ve never heard of” and one of the architects of devolution. Two years after his untimely passing, his family have published his thoughts on the Scottish Parliament’s record – and how we can revive the “new politics”.
Continue readingWe Have a Scottish Book Town. Why Not More?
The question is begged: if it worked for Wigtown, could it not work elsewhere too?
Continue readingExperimenting with drugs
There are lots of people in Scotland who know what they’re doing. The Scottish government need to give them money and get out of the way.
Continue readingOur Politics Has to Rise to the Occasion
Campaigning during May’s local elections, I found myself at the door of a small terraced house in Glasgow. The conversation I had with the woman who lived there, her children peeking round her legs to see who was at the door, has stayed with me in the months since.
Continue readingHow To Fix The Energy Crisis
There’s nothing stopping Scotland from having lower energy bills and a carbon neutral future. To do so, we to need reform Britain’s energy union – not end it.
Continue readingThe UK remains our best opportunity to contribute to the world
For those of us who believe in our responsibility as global citizens, the UK represents our best vehicle for influencing progressive change in the world.
Continue readingOSF launches Commission into the Future of NHS Scotland
Press Release: Report shows that, without reform, Scotland will need an extra 3,500 hospital beds to cope with ageing population
Continue readingScotland’s Unsustainable NHS
Professor David Kerr on why the NHS needs to embrace change and reform to ensure its long-term survival.
Continue readingA Plan For Growth
Our economy conference in Edinburgh yesterday set out a clear prize for Scotland: get growth rates back up to historically high levels and we have the chance of eradicating deep poverty in the country.
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