THE FOLLOWING ANALYSIS demonstrates that current energy policy contravenes Scottish climate change and emissions legislation on almost every criterion. The
YET AGAIN THE SCOTTISH FISHING INDUSTRY is being unfairly treated by Marine Scotland and a disengaged Scottish Government. The industry
FANTASTICAL THINKING SEEMS TO BE ALL THE RAGE these days among those on the progressive left. Take Jason Arday, the
DOES THE SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT genuinely want to support Scotland’s red meat sector? Ministers continue to insist they are resisting the
THIS SERIES HAS DOCUMENTED four failures: a planning system processing twenty hyperscale applications without cumulative assessment; a cost framework that
THERE IS A GROWING SENSE in Scotland that the judiciary is not always operating purely as the independent constitutional safeguard
WHEN A DEVELOPER applies for planning permission to build a 500 megawatt data centre in rural Scotland, the application will
TWENTY HYPERSCALE DATA CENTRES are currently working their way through Scotland’s planning system. If they are all built, their combined
HOW EARLY IS TOO EARLY? It is a question thousands of Scottish parents are now asking as more emerges about
NICOLA STURGEON’S RESIGNATION IN 2023 signalled the beginning of the end of the SNP (as I suggested on Think Scotland),