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Dear SNP, please fix our shattered roads and forget stupid 50mph speed limit plan

Dear SNP, please fix our shattered roads and forget stupid 50mph speed limit plan

The Scottish Government has commenced a consultation on making the speed limit on single carriageway roads 50mph rather than the current 60mph. ...

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Only Kemi Badenoch can save UK from a Trump-style radical right revolution

Only Kemi Badenoch can save UK from a Trump-style radical right revolution

Donald Trump is about to become President of the United States. Again. He is unfit for high office. More than just unpleasant to women, he is a serial...

12.01.2025 2

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Our islands are dying. Here is how we can give islanders the power to save them Sticking Gaelic on police cars and road signs in areas of mainland Scotland where 99.9% of people don’t speak Gaelic is nonsense. Get rid of it, spend the money saved on supporting Gaelic speakers in places where they actually live.

Scotland’s islands, some of the most beautiful places in the world, are failing socially and economically. Evidence of the decline is falling and...

29.12.2024 3

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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 8

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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...

30.11.2024 4

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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 3

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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 4

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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...

19.10.2024 2

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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 2

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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 1

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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...

24.08.2024 1

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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 1

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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...

13.07.2024 1

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