A small death of democracy
Jim O’Neill asks whether the Tory undermining of democracy in Westminster is at risk of being emulated in Holyrood by the SNP. Countries like the United Kingdom, with...
The proof is in the eating
Jim O’Neill takes a look at the SNP’s Programme for Government and sees some good, some bad and some flannel. The old saw used to say that “the...
The Barclay Report: A Scottish Government dilemma
Jim O’Neill examines the curate’s egg that is the Barclay Report, and wonders what hapless Derek Mackay will do with it. When the last business rates review was...
Name them and shame them
Jim O’Neill says last week’s revelations that some councillors are taking decisions over how to spend our money without having paid their own fair share should have implications for...
Pay your taxes locally
Jim O’Neill says the only way to prevent tax avoidance by multinationals is for countries to work together. How about this for a radical idea? Multinational businesses should...
Queen’s Speech – no policies
Jim O’Neill takes on the Queen, Maybot’s incompetent government and the SNP’s latest failing education minister, John Swinney. One of the few enjoyable bits of watching the Queen’s...
The Scottish Nationalist Health Service
Jim O’Neill shares his personal experience of our overstretched “NHSNP”, and says people have the chance this week to vote for a real progressive alternative for the whole of the...