WHEN DAVID BULL visited Scotland during the 2024 general election campaign, Jo Hart took us to meet fishermen in Peterhead, the largest fishing port in the UK. It would be wrong to say that the Scottish Government hadn’t invested in infrastructure. It funded solar panels on shed roofs, which were soon covered in an inch […]
Day: 5 March 2026
The Swinney Collection
Devolution reboot part 2: Putting pupils first
IT IS SOMETIMES SAID that the Scottish Parliament lacks powers to boost economic growth. That’s nonsense. This series of six articles examines different ways devolved powers could be used to make Scotland prosper. As I described last week, they are based loosely on the insights of the economist Edward Glaeser at the outset of devolution. […]