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Guy Stenhouse: Labour simply does not understand business - and that hurts us all

I recently returned from a meeting with a company which operates in the hospitality industry. A good quality rural hotel with great food. Like...

14.12.2024 7

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Guy Stenhouse: Kate Forbes says Labour lacks competence. What a cheek With an amusing lack of self-awareness, Kate Forbes, the Deputy First Minister of Scotland, has warned that the UK Government’s recent decision to increase employers national insurance risks harming economic growth and lacks “basic competence”.

With an amusing lack of self-awareness, Kate Forbes, the Deputy First Minister of Scotland, has warned that the UK Government’s recent decision to...

30.11.2024 8

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Scottish Parliament has failed to deliver. Here are three ways to reform it

The SNP Government has finally hit on a different plan to the one which has involved the repeated pressing of the self-destruct button for the past...

16.11.2024 10

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The dishonesty at the heart of Labour’s Budget is a danger to UK's future

The Labour party is finding that being in government is rather harder than being in opposition. The latter just involves saying everything the...

01.11.2024 10

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Guy Stenhouse: Labour’s just done something that proves we’re better together

You may find this hard to believe but the UK Labour Government has just done something extremely sensible although you probably won’t have noticed. ...

19.10.2024 6

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Labour should scrap tax relief on pensions for higher tax rate payers

The new Labour Government at Westminster has had a poor start with three own goals. First, the restriction of the Winter Fuel Allowance to those on...

05.10.2024 7

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Guy Stenhouse: The SNP’s message to Scotland: we will just shout louder

Party conferences are odd things. By their nature they are a gathering of the faithful who fervently believe in what their party stands for. This...

07.09.2024 7

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Guy Stenhouse: SNP must face up to the complex problems of the Middle East

In 1945 Allied forces advancing from both East and West smashed their way into Germany. In that final chapter of the Second World War, until Germany...

24.08.2024 10

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Guy Stenhouse: There's no climate change emergency and no 'black hole' in UK finances

One of the most irritating media trends is the increasing use of hyperbole. An easy example is the climate 'emergency'. In an emergency you don’t...

10.08.2024 9

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Guy Stenhouse: How Labour can create a more equal United Kingdom – and stop the SNP

The Labour party are back in Government in Westminster and with a share of the vote in Scotland up nearly 20 per cent. The SNP may pretend they...

27.07.2024 10

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Guy Stenhouse: Starmer has very little time to make a real difference

Labour’s triumph in the UK General Election is a key moment in our recent political history. What marks it out is not just the scale of the victory...

13.07.2024 8

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Guy Stenhouse: Neither Labour nor Tories are telling us the truth about tax

We are now at the interesting stage of the UK electoral cycle when instead of being told what to do those who wish to be in Government must make their...

15.06.2024 9

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Guy Stenhouse: If you want to get it right on housing, stop the war on landlords

Governments have a bad habit of taking action which achieves the opposite of what they are, or should be, trying to do. Nowhere is this more true than...

01.06.2024 10

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Guy Stenhouse: The two tasks Swinney must take on to make a difference

When I saw John Swinney with his new cabinet on the steps of Bute House, two thoughts sprang to mind. First, so much for gender balance. Eight...

18.05.2024 20

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Guy Stenhouse: Actually, STEM subjects aren't all that important for our economy

You can hardly avoid noticing that the education sector generally and Government policy in particular has become fixated with Science, Technology,...

04.05.2024 20

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Guy Stenhouse: The endless spewing out of ill-thought out legislation has to stop

The Scottish Government has developed a calamitous skill in producing daft legislation. That the Hate Crime Act would bring out every grievance crank,...

20.04.2024 10

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Guy Stenhouse: Scottish Govt ferry 'consultation' is a worthy but guaranteed failure

The Scottish Government has recently launched two new consultation papers as part of its Islands Connectivity Plan. These are called Strategic...

05.04.2024 7

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Guy Stenhouse: Unintended results of Scottish Government's obsession with new rules

There seems to be an inexorable rise in legislation and regulation which does more harm than good. This is not just a Scottish phenomenon. Take for...

23.03.2024 10

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Guy Stenhouse: Three cheers for Argyll & Bute Council not bowing to the SNP

Is there anybody who believes that councils in Scotland don't need more money? You only have to be a person in need of social care or who used to...

09.03.2024 10

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Guy Stenhouse: We will all lose out thanks to Labour's pension bombshell

How often do you throw things at the television or scrunch up your newspaper in a rage? For most people, I suspect it's when a referee makes an...

24.02.2024 6

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Guy Stenhouse: Here is how we can stop the Scottish Government doing as it pleases

The UK Covid Inquiry sitting in Edinburgh has been revealing. The view that the Scottish Government did a better, more honest and transparent job than...

10.02.2024 5

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Guy Stenhouse: SNP-Green coalition harming Scotland with illiterate income tax hikes

How you feel, the decisions you make; often these are more affected not by where you are now but by where you think you will be in the future. The...

12.01.2024 4

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Guy Stenhouse: Has Scotland now entered a dangerous post-truth era of politics?

What a difference a lie makes. We appear to have a new type of lie. A lie to the media is certainly not a crime but it now seems to be – for those...

27.12.2023 20

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Guy Stenhouse: Time for the SNP to use those levers

A few months ago the excellent family-run ironmonger in a village near where I live announced it was seeking a buyer. More recently it has announced...

13.12.2023 4

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