The response to the Chancellors speech yesterday has been fairly muted in Scotland. A lot of mutterings about tax costs in the future but not much else. The SNP Finance Secretary is concerned over future efficiency savings, but happy about the continued support for building infrastructure programmes, allowing building works on schools and roads to [...]
Good Morning America, and Congratulations – you have chosen Barack Obama to be your 44th President.
In a landslide victory Americans have voted for a black Afro-American to be their Commander-in Chief for the first time, and a huge percentage of the population turned out to ensure the victory. 64% voted, a figure not seen since [...]
With 57.8% of the final vote , Iain Gray has become the fifth leader of the Labour Party in Scotland since 1999. Widely regarded as the front runner, and thought to be the preferred candidate of Gordon Brown, the Prime Minister, the news was announced this morning. His Depute will be Johann Lamont. I checked [...]
Alex Salmond, the First Minister of Scotland, laid out his government proposals for the coming twelve months at Holyrood today.
Fifteen Bills have been proposed in the “Moving Scotland Forward” document, the most contoversial of which is the plan to abolish Council Tax and replace it with a Local Income Tax. This has little support with [...]
