Tag: rise

Commentary by Christopher Silver What do the people want of the place? They want it to be filled with thinking persons as open and adventurous as...

By Hugh Kerr The latest Sunday Herald lead story (Battle is on for second vote) has further fanned the flames of the sharpest debate in the...

Commentary by Derek Bateman January – named after the Roman god Janus (meaning door) which had two faces. The ability to look in two directions...

Writer, broadcaster and blogger Rachel McCormack takes issue with GA Ponsonby’s argument for a “first and second preference” vote for the SNP in May’s...

G.A. Ponsonby argues that a vote for RISE will not help the case for independence Last summer a new political movement was born.  RISE, which...

  By Bob Duncan Scottish Labour leader Johann Lamont could hit hard-pressed Scots with a massive hike in Council Tax of nearly £700 per household, if...

By a Newsnet reporter  A Labour MSP has been caught out in an embarrassing gaffe after attacking a price rise policy his own party...

By Andrew Barr  University tuition fees in England are set to rise over the next year, approaching a maximum of £9,000 annually, whilst access...

By Martin Kelly The Scottish Chambers of Commerce (SCC) has given its support for cross-party action to scrap the Treasury’s three pence fuel...

According to research by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors in Scotland, undertaken monthly, there was a large jump in property sales in April....