THE SPAT THAT HAS CLOSED the Straits of Hormuz has highlighted the UK’s vulnerability to imported oil and (particularly) gas.
NO POLITICIAN FOR A GENERATION has been able to answer the question: how do you solve a problem like the
ONE OF THE REASONS I was attracted to Malcolm Offord becoming leader of Reform UK Scotland, was that he not
IN SCOTLAND, we are blessed with natural energy assets both below the sea (North Sea oil and gas) and above
CONRAD RITCHIE ALERTED me to a public meeting in Fraserburgh on 1 May 2025 about cuts to a local day
GERS FIGURES CONFIRM a stark reality. Scotland raises £87.3bn in tax, yet spends £117.5bn. That leaves a £30bn deficit –
FOR TWENTY-FIVE YEARS Scotland has endured high spending and declining outcomes under successive governments in Holyrood. Despite record government expenditure,
REFORM’S Scotland conference at Bishopton last Thursday marked another watershed for the party. The party introduced its 73 candidates and
I WAS DELIGHTED recently to hear Kathryn Porter in Edinburgh give a tour-de-force guide to Scotland’s energy position. Kathryn is
MARCH 9th marked the 250th anniversary of the publication of Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations. To commemorate it, the