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Guy StenhouseHerald Scotland |
I recently returned from a meeting with a company which operates in the hospitality industry. A good quality rural hotel with great food. Like...
With an amusing lack of self-awareness, Kate Forbes, the Deputy First Minister of Scotland, has warned that the UK Government’s recent decision to...
The SNP Government has finally hit on a different plan to the one which has involved the repeated pressing of the self-destruct button for the past...
The Labour party is finding that being in government is rather harder than being in opposition. The latter just involves saying everything the...
You may find this hard to believe but the UK Labour Government has just done something extremely sensible although you probably won’t have noticed. ...
The new Labour Government at Westminster has had a poor start with three own goals. First, the restriction of the Winter Fuel Allowance to those on...
Party conferences are odd things. By their nature they are a gathering of the faithful who fervently believe in what their party stands for. This...
In 1945 Allied forces advancing from both East and West smashed their way into Germany. In that final chapter of the Second World War, until Germany...
One of the most irritating media trends is the increasing use of hyperbole. An easy example is the climate 'emergency'. In an emergency you don’t...
The Labour party are back in Government in Westminster and with a share of the vote in Scotland up nearly 20 per cent. The SNP may pretend they...
Labour’s triumph in the UK General Election is a key moment in our recent political history. What marks it out is not just the scale of the victory...
We are now at the interesting stage of the UK electoral cycle when instead of being told what to do those who wish to be in Government must make their...
Governments have a bad habit of taking action which achieves the opposite of what they are, or should be, trying to do. Nowhere is this more true than...
When I saw John Swinney with his new cabinet on the steps of Bute House, two thoughts sprang to mind. First, so much for gender balance. Eight...
You can hardly avoid noticing that the education sector generally and Government policy in particular has become fixated with Science, Technology,...
The Scottish Government has developed a calamitous skill in producing daft legislation. That the Hate Crime Act would bring out every grievance crank,...
The Scottish Government has recently launched two new consultation papers as part of its Islands Connectivity Plan. These are called Strategic...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...