WRITING A MANIFESTO on Scottish education is not easy. Anecdotally, I hear reports of children vaping and playing on their
THE SCOTLAND ACT 1998 gave extensive powers to Holyrood to allow it to control most of the levers required to
REFORM’S EMERGENCE has unsettled something in Scottish public life. It has done so largely because it challenges a long-standing and
REFORM UK wishes to implement real devolution within Scotland by pushing decision making down to local authorities, in stark contrast
IN THE LAST FEW WEEKS I’ve written articles about how the powers devolved to the Scottish Parliament could be used
FOR TWENTY-FIVE YEARS Scotland has endured high spending and declining outcomes under successive governments in Holyrood. Despite record government expenditure,
AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY Scotland seemed full of possibilities. The new Parliament was, for many, an opportunity to
FREEDOM means many different things to different people. To some, freedom is a sort of Mel Gibson-style Braveheart freedom: putting
IT IS SOMETIMES SAID that the Scottish Parliament lacks powers to boost economic growth. That’s nonsense. This series of six
I VOTED YES in 2014 for reasons that were, at the time, simple enough. I believed Scotland should be responsible