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Guy Stenhouse: Actually, STEM subjects aren't all that important for our economy

You can hardly avoid noticing that the education sector generally and Government policy in particular has become fixated with Science, Technology,...

04.05.2024 10

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Guy Stenhouse: The endless spewing out of ill-thought out legislation has to stop

The Scottish Government has developed a calamitous skill in producing daft legislation. That the Hate Crime Act would bring out every grievance crank,...

20.04.2024 10

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Guy Stenhouse: Scottish Govt ferry 'consultation' is a worthy but guaranteed failure

The Scottish Government has recently launched two new consultation papers as part of its Islands Connectivity Plan. These are called Strategic...

05.04.2024 4

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Guy Stenhouse: Unintended results of Scottish Government's obsession with new rules

There seems to be an inexorable rise in legislation and regulation which does more harm than good. This is not just a Scottish phenomenon. Take for...

23.03.2024 10

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Guy Stenhouse: Three cheers for Argyll & Bute Council not bowing to the SNP

Is there anybody who believes that councils in Scotland don't need more money? You only have to be a person in need of social care or who used to...

09.03.2024 2

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Guy Stenhouse: We will all lose out thanks to Labour's pension bombshell

How often do you throw things at the television or scrunch up your newspaper in a rage? For most people, I suspect it's when a referee makes an...

24.02.2024 4

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Guy Stenhouse: Here is how we can stop the Scottish Government doing as it pleases

The UK Covid Inquiry sitting in Edinburgh has been revealing. The view that the Scottish Government did a better, more honest and transparent job than...

10.02.2024 4

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Guy Stenhouse: SNP-Green coalition harming Scotland with illiterate income tax hikes

How you feel, the decisions you make; often these are more affected not by where you are now but by where you think you will be in the future. The...

12.01.2024 4

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Guy Stenhouse: Has Scotland now entered a dangerous post-truth era of politics?

What a difference a lie makes. We appear to have a new type of lie. A lie to the media is certainly not a crime but it now seems to be – for those...

27.12.2023 20

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Guy Stenhouse: Time for the SNP to use those levers

A few months ago the excellent family-run ironmonger in a village near where I live announced it was seeking a buyer. More recently it has announced...

13.12.2023 4

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Guy Stenhouse: Scottish Government should be ashamed of these joke indy papers

You are forgiven if you have stopped noticing that the Scottish Government has kept ploughing on with its series of papers on just how absolutely...

28.11.2023 7

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Guy Stenhouse: We need to be honest about the true costs of net zero

Climate change is real and if we care about our grandchildren's future we need to do something about it. I accept this, you probably accept it, a...

16.11.2023 7

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Guy Stenhouse: We need to be honest about the true costs of net zero

Climate change is real and if we care about our grandchildren's future we need to do something about it. I accept this, you probably accept it, a...

15.11.2023 5

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Guy Stenhouse: Sophisticated Scots are dab hands at tactical voting

Scots are probably one of the most sophisticated electorates in the world when it comes to tactical voting. Tactical voting takes place in every...

01.11.2023 5

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Guy Stenhouse: New private rents 'consultation' will further reduce supply of homes

Boris Johnson was found unanimously to have misled the UK Parliament by a committee on which the majority of members were MPs in his own party. ...

18.10.2023 2

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Guy Stenhouse: Somebody has to take responsibility for the ferries fiasco

We now know the two ferries being built at the Ferguson yard will cost at least £400 million, four times what they were supposed to cost. The added...

04.10.2023 9

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Guy Stenhouse: Wealth tax would be a self-inflicted wound of great stupidity

Sometimes a quick answer is the right one. Politicians hate to get boxed in and, as a result, often avoid giving straight and immediate answers to...

20.09.2023 5

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