RECENT MEDIA COVERAGE has attempted to make political capital out of the claim that around 40 per cent of Reform Scotland candidates were previously members of the Conservative Party. As in England, many of the party’s most prominent figures in Scotland – including its leader Malcolm Offord, MSP Graham Simpson, and councillors such as Thomas Kerr […]
Day: 17 March 2026
Devolution reboot part 4: Fixing Scotland’s towns
AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY Scotland seemed full of possibilities. The new Parliament was, for many, an opportunity to recast our society and economy for the better. In this series of articles I have been discussing ideas commissioned more than twenty years ago from economists around the world to suggest ways in which the […]