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Leader: The right of choice
AS WE reveal today, Alex Salmond appears to be seeking a compromise deal on his party’s plans to introduce gay marriage in Scotland.
Leader: Momentous year draws to a close
IN THE world of newsgathering, some years bump along seemingly without much ado, while others seem to cram a decade’s worth of momentous events into 12 scant months.
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Leader: Wha’s like us...the Glasgow Subway
GLASGOW’S subway system, fondly known as the Clockwork Orange, celebrated its 115th birthday last week.
Leader: There is much Scotland can do without a UK jobs ‘summit’
LATEST unemployment figures for Scotland have delivered a double blow. The first is the severity of increase – a rise of 25,000 to 229,000 in the August-October quarter, taking the jobless rate up to 8.5 per cent.
Leader: Time for some restraint at the tills
IT IS increasingly hard these days to find good news. So the fact that John Lewis stores had record sales last week, up by 2 per cent on its previous record, is unexpectedly cheering.
Leader: An eco-friendly superhighway
THE SNP’s pledge to dual the A9 and A96 by 2025 at an eventual cost of about £2.5 billion was greeted with much delight by road users in northern Scotland and with a lot of newspaper headlines and praise.
3 CommentsLeader: Salmond has his own answers to provide over EU veto
WITH Britain now, as the headlines say, isolated within the European Union, where does that leave Scotland? This, essentially, is the question that First Minister Alex Salmond has posed David Cameron.
9 CommentsLeader: A defining moment
HISTORY’S verdict on David Cameron’s handling of Friday’s historic EU summit in Brussels is likely to be harsh and unforgiving.
3 CommentsLeader: Cameron must ensure Britain still has a voice in Europe
THE United Kingdom’s relationship with the European Union has always been uneasy and uncomfortable. Not part of the original European Economic Community, denied entry by General Charles de Gaulle in the 1960s, and joining only after a fractious referendum which divided the political parties, under governments of both left and right the UK has been in, but not of, Europe.
11 CommentsLeader: SNP’s bold vision would be just the job – in Dreamland
FOR reasons both immediate and longer-term, Scotland urgently needs an infrastructure programme. For this to lift business confidence, attract investment and galvanise momentum and support, it needs to strike a credible balance between boldness, achievability and immediate practical benefit.
9 CommentsLeader: No time for the never-never
FOR some time now this newspaper has been in agreement with both the SNP’s John Swinney and the Labour party’s Ed Balls that Britain – and particularly Scotland, given this country’s economic sluggishness – needs a Plan B.
Leader: In the Old Town, choose your words carefully
WHEN in the company of architects and planners, never say “pastiche”. Deployment of the word has sparked an almighty row that threatens to derail progress on a major development in the centre of Edinburgh’s Old Town.
1 CommentLeader: Justice must still be seen to be done
JUSTICE means, at the very least, that the guilty should be punished. That is the mark of wider society’s repugnance at the offence committed and it gives some satisfaction to the victims of crime.
1 CommentLeader: Chancellor’s task made difficult by shortage of tools
RARELY can a Chancellor’s statement have come at a more crucial point in the economic cycle. The economy is on the verge of recession, driven by a global slowdown in growth caused mainly by the drawn-out sovereign debt crisis in the eurozone.
Leader: Acceptance of poor literacy is no way to help the young
HAVING served on the Literacy Commission set up by the Scottish Labour Party and whose recommendations, published in 2009, formed much of the Scottish Government’s action plan to improve literacy announced last October, Iain McMillan, director of CBI Scotland, is in a good position to know what needs to be done to improve standards in reading and writing. H
2 CommentsLeader: Nature overruled in the case of cat versus dog
IS AN attack by a dog on a cat a matter for the courts? It is if you’re Bobby the cat and you’ve suffered a broken jaw and femur and other internal injuries as a result.
3 CommentsLeader: Jenny Dawe’s Edith Piaf moment
LEADING the council in Scotland’s capital city is never an easy job, but given the duties which come with the post, neither should it be.
Leader: Tories’ new leader reaps what she sows as rivals kick back
IF THE new leader of the Scottish Conservatives, Ruth Davidson, thought her reputation as a ferocious exponent of kickboxing would intimidate her parliamentary colleagues at Holyrood so they bent to her will when she came to choose what is grandly called a “shadow cabinet”, she was rapidly disabused of any such notion yesterday.
1 CommentLeader: A fight on her hands
THE election of Ruth Davidson as leader of the Scottish Conservative party looks more like the beginning of her problems than their resolution.
4 CommentsLeader: Banking on the ECB
TURMOIL in the Eurozone is increasingly destabilising the global economy and the political process across Europe. The most toxic form of contagion is fear; it is on fear that speculators trade, since panic provokes the extravagant mood swings in the markets that generate their short-term profits.
- Rangers run into the ground as furious HRMC battles to claw back tax
- Broken Rangers: Club signals intention to go into administration
- Scottish independence: David Cameron set to snub Alex Salmond’s separation talks bid
- Rangers blame HMRC for driving club to brink of administration
- Six Nations: Steadman given notice as ruthless Robinson seeks to strengthen team
- Scottish independence: No breakthrough in talks between Alex Salmond and Michael Moore
- Devo-max merely a dodgy back-up plan to save SNP, says Jim Sillars
- Scottish independence: David Cameron set to snub Alex Salmond’s separation talks bid
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