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THIS week sees the first meeting of the Scottish Government’s new First Minister’s Investment Panel. This is billed as an expert group of…

LAST July, the Scottish Government launched a bold initiative to prepare the economy to recover from – and go beyond – the ravages caused by the…

KATE Forbes has angered campaigners after her advisory group tasked with drawing up a 10-year strategy to transform Scotland into a net zero economy…

IN another time, the week just passed would have been considered a good one for the UK left. The pitilessness of the right seemed to have been exposed in all its shame and then skittled. The anti-Islam activist, Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, aka Tommy Robinson, was ruled to have libelled a Syrian schoolboy and made to pay him £100,000 in damages. The news of Mr Robinson’s latest courtroom defeat came as Nigel Farage – a millionaire stockbroker – filmed himself from the deck of a luxury yacht railing against a boatload of refugees in the English Channel. The following day, Dawn Butler, t...

Nicola Sturgeon scraps key economic body set up by Alex Salmond The SNP administration has axed the 14-year-old Council of Economic Advisers (COEA) in favour of a new brains trust. 04:30, 10 JUL 2021 Updated Nicola Sturgeon with Alex Salmond in 2015 (Image: PA) Join thousands of others in getting the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox.Invalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you've consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our und...