Month: July 2023
Scottish retailer open flagship first store to showcase top food items
How the national minimum wage has effectively legitimised low pay
Cruising Grounds and Fairy Tales
As runaway climate change alters the physical experience of summer, possibly permanently, people from these shores are navigating how or whether to travel abroad, and some minds are turning to what this means for Scotland. Like in most things we are anywhere between twenty and fifty years too late in our thinking. As Italy and […] Source
The drearily predictable BBC Scotland
On Thursday NHS consultants in England went on strike, the first time that senior doctors in the NHS have taken industrial action since the 1970s. Strike action in Scotland has been avoided, thanks to an improved pay deal offered to doctors by the Scottish Government, which has shown a willingness to…
To achieve a wellbeing economy, practice wellbeing philosophy
Dr Robbie Mochrie is a Senior Lecturer in Economics at Heriot-Watt University and a frequent contributor to the National on the Scottish economy. Achieving wellbeing has been at the heart of economics since Adam Smith wrote The Wealth of Nations nearly 250 years ago. Believing that wealth was the source of wellbeing, Adam Smith explored […] Source
Douglas Ross tops list of hours worked in second jobs among all MPs
Scotland’s Simple Choice
Scotland’s very simple choice – if Humza Yousaf doesn’t prevent it London has always said that the Union is based on consent and that Scotland can leave if its consent is withdrawn. Scotland has never voted for independence, although it can do so at any general election if a party gives the option clearly, unequivocally […] Source
Joyful Solidarity in a Drowning World
Probably you’ve seen the images of the floods from around the world – cars flowing down rivers that were once roads they had driven up, people sat on top of their roof waiting for rescue boats, fields that held the potential to feed hundreds becoming lakes. And in day to day life, so many of […] Source
Over 55s enjoy tai chi taster session in Moray
Person ‘traced safely’ after incident at Findhorn Bridge
Scottish Wetherspoons pub to close for major refurbishment
Glasgow bar Brel U-turns on wage cuts for staff
Beyond the Pantomime
Returning from holiday to survey the British and Scottish political landscape is to look across a weird space where little of value or hope or integrity shines through. Every day Sir Keir Starmer seems to abandon any redeeming policies and fold to England’s tabloid Overton Window. Today – in a pitiful excuse for Starmer abandoning […] Source