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Conference season is upon us, so where stand the major parties? (opens the original)
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IT’S party time. For the faithful at least. The folk who are actually political party members and dutifully trot to whichever town or resort in which their tribe will foregather this year. For the LibDems, it was Brighton, home of some seriously good fish restaurants, where Sir Ed Davey paid such gushing homage to his LibDem councillor wife that she felt obliged to stop clapping him. Shortly it will be Labour in Liverpool, then the Tories in Brum before the SNP return to Aberdeen. All pose diffe
Trumpland is too occupied by beating China to stop and think about AI (opens the original)
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YOU may have heard The National’s podcast featuring the chaps behind the major AI data centre planned for Fife. It would be a green development, they insisted. With full local consultation and sympathetic landscaping. All the scaremongering around it and other Scottish developments only related to big American projects, not ours. Sadly for them, when a concerned environment reporter from Global Action Plan asked the now disbanded UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology what the data
The UK Government's policy on energy is so much hot air it’s not worth our breath (opens the original)
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LONG ago – way back in the late 1960s, oil was found in the North Sea. It was a huge find, much the same as Norway’s. But, unlike them, we didn’t create a sovereign wealth fund. Theirs is now worth more than $2.3 trillion and covers a quarter of that country’s expenditure. Scotland argued that it was our oil; Jim Callaghan, the then Labour prime minister, said it was a massive opportunity for the British economy. Indeed it was. More than four million barrels of oil came ashore around 2000, mu
Ruth Wishart: Fight for equal pay continues long after the law was amended (opens the original)
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YOU’D hardly know it, but it’s more than 50 years since the Equal Pay Act, subsumed, like so much else, into the now 16-year-old Equality Act. We all thought, silly us, that it would mean the gender pay gap would disappear more or less overnight. Some chance. A new report last week confirmed that while 70% of the female workforce were globally employed in social and health care, depressingly few were in anything resembling a management post. Recent changes to the visa system and those rules aff
Dear Andy Burnham, here's what you need to know about Scotland's state of play (opens the original)
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So good to hear you’re in listening mode since, in truth, you have much still to learn about Scotland. Already many of us believe you’ve become the de facto Prime Minister of England, since so many of your early pronouncements seem to have little relevance to our Scottish postcodes. You seem unaware of some very basic Scottish geography, for instance, otherwise you would have known that Dundee and Edinburgh, our national capital and home of our parliament, are not very distant at all. Much close
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