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Colin Borland

Colin Borland

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Recovery is fragile – it needs nurtured and protected until it's strong enough

EVERY year, around late March, I convince myself winter will never end. I survey my lifeless garden and panic that I’ve broken it. And then, just as...

22.04.2024 40

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Scottish Government's 'latte levy' must be designed with the real world in mind

During the first Covid lockdown, when I turned an old beer crate and some laminate flooring offcuts into a coffee table, it turned out that I wasn’t...

25.03.2024 8

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Colin Borland: Not a 'now' problem but it's coming over the horizon

If you’re running a small business, it’s likely that most of your priorities are in the short-term, very-short-term, immediate-term and...

26.02.2024 4

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Support for small businesses is always welcome – but more is needed

Colin Borland “SMALL businesses work so hard for us, so this government is working hard for them,” declared Chancellor Jeremy Hunt as he...

27.11.2023 6

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Colin Borland: The blunt and frustrating truth about pro-environment schemes

Even before proper Old Testament weather battered Scotland the other weekend, before railway lines were turned into canals and Greenock became an...

19.10.2023 3

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