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David LonsdaleHerald Scotland |
Retailers will be hoping Finance Secretary Shona Robison is more Santa Claus than Ebenezer Scrooge when she reveals her Scottish Budget this week. ...
It’s exactly three years since the United Nations came to Glasgow to hold its COP26 conference on climate change. It was exhilarating to see so many...
IT’S exactly a month since Sir Keir Starmer became Prime Minister. In the days since he has sought to convey a rather dull impression of solidity...
RETAIL has long competed with other sectors to attract and retain talent. That rivalry has stiffened in the last few years of relatively low...
THE announcement of the General Election was a strange combination of the surprising and the inevitable. It was coming and allegedly prompted by...
THE political turbulence of the last few weeks will hopefully stabilise in the coming days and provide a little more certainty for businesses....
IT’S four years since the first Covid lockdown and in some respects, it feels a distant memory. Back then, Scotland’s retailers spent millions of...
The news that the UK has entered recession brings into sharp focus the difficult decisions on taxation which face government. Finance ministers are...
The Covid Inquiry has given a peek into how public policy is sometimes formulated at the upper echelons of government. It might be argued not every...
The arrival of Christmas adverts to our television screens is the traditional declaration that festive shopping should commence. In much the same way...