Attali says 50/50 chance of euro surviving until Christmas
Leading economist, Jacques Attali, Former President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, is this morning quoted as saying that there is no more than a 50/50 chance of the euro...
View ArticleCononish gold mine to be in operation summer 2012
As its own planning authority, the Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park finally gave planning permission back in October 2011, to Scotgold, owners of the Cononish gold and silver mine on the...
View ArticleArgyll and Bute Council: the horsetrading begins
There is a meeting being arranged for tomorrow between a curious collection of councillors:The SNP’s Sandy Taylor is rumoured to be the likely next party leader if Roddy McCuish decides to step down in...
View ArticleNew major financial issue, supposing Scotland voted ‘Yes’ to independence
What follows is an indicative picture of the ‘limbo’ period between a hypothetical ‘Yes’ vote and Independence Day – and a question to which we can find no immediate answer.19th September 2014,...
View ArticleRSPB warns court decision on Scottish Coal administration ‘cannot wipe slate...
RSPB Scotland has condemned a Court of Session ruling which has cleared Scottish Coal and Aardvark of their legal duties to control pollution from opencast mines and restore the land after mining.Since...
View ArticleInteresting article from BP’s Tony Hayward on UK energy policy and role of...
On July 30th The Times carried an article by Tony Hayward, the former CEO of BP and now CEO of Genel Energy: Come wind or sun, we’ll still need fossil fuels.Since the article is behind a pay wall, for...
View ArticleYes camaign needs to rein back First Minister as he cuts tether to reason in...
Economists and financial sector specialists have underlined what every downhome body knows – that if you default on due debt, your credit line dies with that abandoned debt.Scotland’s First Minster,...
View ArticleScotland and the banks – the real issue
The EU move to have the main formal base of all member states’ banks located in the country in which the major part of their business is done is no more than a logical measure to regularise and...
View ArticleFracking with a light touch: could planned change to trespass law fuel new...
The Financial Times earlier today broke a fracking story now picked up by the other major national news media.The Prime Minister, David Cameron’s Infrastructure Bill, which will speed up planning...
View ArticleEU tries repressurising economy – and protects the core against failure
With the value of the euro having been falling on the markets, a lot of spending and investment on hold and lending as tight as shale oil, the economy of the European Union is threatened with...
View ArticleProfessor James Hunter on land reform in Scotland
On 21st May, Professor James Hunter gave the keynote address to the 2015 Community Land Scotland Conference in Inverness. His address has been circulated for publication and rewards reading.Some...
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