Category Archives: Scotland’s Economy

Scotland’s free stuff: prescriptions, hospitalisation, education, bus passes… We are told the partial rise in tax for the higher brackets of salaries, (raised in Sturgeon’s era) is too much to bear, the rich are moving out of Ssotland. Over one … Continue reading →

Al Denholm, CEO of the Scottish National Investment Bank Articles on banking can be boring to read. We are more interested in making ends meet in our week’s anxiety over expenditure versus income. But we should try to hold onto … Continue reading →

A Norwegian business friend once remarked that the one thing foreigners have in common with Norway, especially after their first visit, is, they want to be Norwegian. On the surface, a glib, fun remark applicable to any patriot anywhere … … Continue reading →

Michael Oswald’s film The Spider’s Web reveals how at the demise of empire, City of London financial interests created a web of secrecy jurisdictions that captured wealth from across the globe and hid it in a web of offshore islands. … Continue reading →

Sir Stumblebore – policies here today, gone tomorrow, implacable supporter of Israeli genocide – Starmer is deleting all the reasons to vote for his party, and bowing to a destructive right-wing agenda. His ability to announce a new policy fit … Continue reading →

Once again, Scots see their heavy industry abandoned by our heavenly protector, the British State, abandoned so that Scotland cannot make social or economic progress, and has to look to its oppressor, England, for supply. Grangemouth refinery, saved by Alex … Continue reading →

Alba Party Depute Leader Kenny MacAskill MP used a Commons Debate, which he has secured, to call for Scotland’s oil refinery at Grangemouth to be linked with Scotland’s oil production.  Opening the Debate “Grangemouth Refinery and Energy Security” MacAskill said: “It will surprise many … Continue reading →

The Ferry contractors ignoring ScotGov’s strict instruction NOT to pay vast bonuses to themselves while the price of two docked ships reach and surpass Ben Nevis heights, proving Humza Yousaf’s administration is effectively a dead horse, without authority, unable to … Continue reading →

The last time the UK Treasury published honest figures was in the 1930s How does a imperialist nation destroy faith in a just case? Easy. You take all the money you can get out of the country and, in pretence … Continue reading →