Tag: Gordon Brown
The shadowy elephant in the room
By Kirsty Hughes and Newsroom's Molly Pollock
Kirsty Hughes cogent Twitter thread on Gordon Brown's Day in the Westminster...
End of an era as Hunterston B decommissions
By Russell Bruce
It is not often there is a nuclear energy story that is a cause for celebration....
Two men meet at a palace in Edinburgh
By Russell Bruce
Is there something strange about that? When the man who is second in line to the...
Perils of British independence: what does residual unionism tell us about...
Commentary by Christopher Silver
“The vote on 18 September could indeed be a moment of destiny, but not the one the separatists are praying for:...
The fate of Scotland amidst Brexit and the death throes of...
Commentary by Derek Bateman
A foundation stone of the Better Together case was the integrity of the UK. In other words, the political and constitutional...
The hubris of Gordon Brown on borrowing, and long-forecast perils of...
Commentary by Hugh Kerr
The current crisis in Edinburgh's schools is only the tip of the iceberg caused by the Private Finance Initiative (PFI). The...
Labour won’t support Scottish opt-out if UK votes to leave European...
By a Newsnet reporter
Scottish Labour will not back calls for a pro-EU Scotland to remain in the European Union if the rest of the...
New Labour is finally no more, spun to its grave at...
Derek Bateman kicks some dust over the grave of New Labour
The real failure of Labour wasn’t Blair, it was marketing. If they had known how...
Broken ‘Vow’ means Sturgeon’s 2016 manifesto must pledge indyref2
Opinion by G.A.Ponsonby
There was a cracking headline in the Herald newspaper a few days ago. It read "Sturgeon set to be invited to tell...
Salmond Pt 3: Devo Max, The Vow (and the black black...
By a Newsnet.scot Reporter
Alex Salmond relates the tussle with the Unionist parties over the question of a "Devo Max" option on the referendum ballot...