Comment – First Steps: a new approach for our schools
The Caledonian MercuryDyce Primary School By Lauren Paterson Senior Policy Executive CBI Scotland It should come as no surprise that skills provision continues to be a key concern for CBI members....
View ArticleFormer Games medallist Christine Black to lead Team Scotland’s 2014 badminton...
The Caledonian MercuryPublic Information Feature Edinburgh’s Christine Black, one of the great names of badminton, has been named Team Scotland’s badminton manager for Glasgow 2014. Black, a mixed...
View ArticleEqual Pay — Still a long Way to Go
The Caledonian MercuryIt’s coming to the end of 2012 and, more than 40 years after the Equal Pay Act in the UK, the Fawcett Society reported that women working full-time in the UK were still paid on...
View ArticleTHE IMMENSITY OF THE POWER OF WORDS
The Caledonian Mercuryby Mike Stevenson Founder of Thinktastic – Scotland’s only motivational communications agency As a speaker, I learned long ago that words make or break people’s day. A sign, a...
View ArticleTHE YEAR OF RECKONING 2012
The Caledonian MercuryIt’s been a year of reckoning We’ve all been counting up the cost of the bankers’ recession, which shows every sign of going on and on. The bankers and the tax avoidance companies...
View ArticleWeir’s Week: 21st December 2012
The Caledonian MercurySaturday As far back as March, Rangers manager Ally McCoist admitted there were “one or two people having a wee fly kick” at his club, and added; “I would suggest to them to give...
View ArticleReview: RHA MA-350 Headphones
The Caledonian MercuryI am quite a hard person to please when it comes to headphones. Having spent years working for the BBC, I’ve been used to using the best quality Sennheiser equipment. I also have...
View ArticleLETTER FROM SCOTLAND 21st December 2012
The Caledonian MercuryBy the time you read this letter, I may be dead. Indeed you may be dead. We may all be dead. Christmas may never come. Because today, Friday 21st December 2012, is supposed to be...
View ArticleMERRY CHRISTMAS
The Caledonian MercuryChristmas will soon be upon us. We can all wish that the weather was more like that in the picture. Because of the need for your editor to travel South to be with family over this...
View ArticleLETTER FROM SCOTLAND: 30th December 2012
The Caledonian MercuryChristmas has been dull, cloudy, rainy, windy, misty, raw and long. But the bleak mid-winter has been lit up by a string of cheerful little scenes appearing like Christmas lights....
View ArticleSTEWART WEIR’S ANNUAL AWARDS: THE WEIRDOs
The Caledonian MercuryMost Bewildered Look In Scottish Sport For 2012 – Craig Whyte A Big Boy Did It And Ran Away Award – won jointly by Sir David Murray and Craig Whyte Group Of Death Of The Year 2012...
View ArticleColumn: A YEAR OF TRANSITION 2013
The Caledonian MercuryWe cannot know, of course, but 2013 looks like it is going to be a year of quiet, sullen adjustment. We are moving from an era when we thought we could repair the economy, the...
View ArticleQuestions on Independence
The Caledonian MercuryAt the end of last year, the Director of CBI Scotland, in his New Year Message, posed rather a lot of serious questions which he believes need to be address as part of the debate...
View ArticleThe Scottish Economy: ‘continuing to stagnate’
The Caledonian MercuryThe latest Scotland Business Monitor from Lloyds TSB suggests that business expectations have risen slightly despite evidence that the Scottish economy in continuing to stagnate....
View ArticlePoverty: an international perspective
The Caledonian MercuryA report last year from the think tank Demos said that around 24,000 families across Scotland were facing “severe disadvantage” through poverty. This was confirmed last month when...
View ArticleLETTER FROM SCOTLAND 6th January 2013
The Caledonian MercuryThe sparks from the Hogmanay fireworks have fallen on a quiet first week of the New Year. It’s as if everyone knows 2013 is going to be a tough year. We are drawing breath and are...
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The Caledonian MercuryA new survey from the Federation of Small Businesses suggests that confidence is rising among Scottish small businesses. Despite reporting rising costs and weak trading...
View ArticleComment: Reforms to child benefit are a mess
The Caledonian Mercuryby Prof. Philip Booth, Editorial Director at the Institute of Economic Affairs The coalition government – despite the best intentions of Iain Duncan Smith – is stumbling about in...
View ArticleEdinburgh’s Newest Hotel: the Tune Hotel Haymarket
The Caledonian MercuryThere’s growing evidence that the downturn in tourism which affected Scotland over the past five years has come to an end. At the low point, existing hotels, especially in rural...
View ArticleHOW TO CURE UNDER-EMPLOYMENT
The Caledonian MercuryEconomists have finally solved the mystery of why the “Great Recession” has only resulted in 8 per cent unemployment, not the expected 10 or 12 per cent. The answer, of course, is...
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