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1 week ago | 
dailymail.co.uk | Graham Grant
The inquiry has long been a favoured standby of blundering politicians with their backs to the wall - ordering one can buy you valuable time. It means they can refuse to comment because a probe is under way - and naturally it would be wrong to pre-judge its outcome. But in Scotland there has been an explosion in statutory inquiries, to the extent that they have become the country’s only growth industry.
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1 week ago | 
msn.com | David Churchill |Graham Grant
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1 week ago | 
dailymail.co.uk | David Churchill |Graham Grant
Hundreds of NHS bosses are pocketing more than £100,000 a year despite failing to bring down waiting lists, a report reveals today. Amid record sums being poured in by taxpayers, nearly 1,700 fat cat NHS bureaucrats were handed the bumper sum in pay, pensions, bonuses, expenses and payoffs. Meanwhile, 512 senior managers banked salaries greater than the Prime Minister’s (£172,153) - with nearly 300 on £200,000 or more.
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2 weeks ago | 
dailymail.co.uk | Graham Grant
Football fans should be given a dedicated area to celebrate their team’s sporting success in a bid to prevent city centre disorder, Scotland’s top police officer has said. Chief Constable Jo Farrell said 320 officers were deployed after thousands of Celtic supporters descended on Glasgow’s Merchant City and Trongate on Saturday. A total of 20 people have been arrested after Celtic fans celebrated their team lifting the Premiership trophy, following a 1-1 draw with St Mirren.
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2 weeks ago | 
dailymail.co.uk | Graham Grant
Police officers need to stop ‘wasting their time’ probing social media posts and get back on the streets to deter crime, a senior officer said yesterday. Rob Hay, president of the Association of Scottish Police Superintendents (ASPS), said it was not the job of police to intervene when people were offended by posts on X and other platforms. He said unless a crime was suspected officers should be ‘nowhere near’ social media and must get back into the community to prevent and fight crime.
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2 weeks ago | 
dailymail.co.uk | Graham Grant
You have to feel for the massed ranks of civil servants stretching out in their back gardens in the baking hot weather. It could get boring as the long hours stretch ahead, and there’s a lot of work to do including deleting all those memos about coming back to the office. Don’t worry, though, they have plenty to keep them busy, including their government-issued laptops which provide an unlimited supply of entertainment.
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3 weeks ago | 
dailymail.co.uk | Graham Grant
John Swinney is the politician formerly known as ‘Honest John’ - though after a re-brand he is now ‘full-on John’. It’s easy to lose track of these attempts at an image makeover - mind you, it’s difficult to know what, if anything, has changed. He has always presented himself as a moderate in a party not known for its measured approach – more Reggie Perrin than Che Guevara.
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3 weeks ago | 
dailymail.co.uk | Graham Grant
A rape survivor has spoken of being 'humiliated’ at the trial of her attacker during a ‘bruising’ court ordeal. Ellie Wilson crowd-funded to prepare for a successful complaint against defence lawyer Lorenzo Alonzi after her rapist, Daniel McFarlane, was jailed for five years, and now campaigns for victims’ rights.
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1 month ago | 
dailymail.co.uk | Graham Grant
A major renewables project which would have created nearly 1,000 jobs has been shelved in a blow to the SNP’s net zero goal. Drax is putting on hold a £500million expansion of the Cruachan pumped-storage hydroelectric power station in Argyll, which it said was aimed at supporting the Nationalists’ green agenda. The company said Cruachan can ‘help solve intermittency issues with other forms of renewable power… when the wind doesn’t blow and the sun doesn’t shine’.
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1 month ago | 
thisismoney.co.uk | Graham Grant
A major renewables project which would have created nearly 1,000 jobs has been shelved in a blow to the SNP’s net zero goal. Drax is putting on hold a £500million expansion of the Cruachan pumped-storage hydroelectric power station in Argyll, which it said was aimed at supporting the Nationalists’ green agenda. The company said Cruachan can ‘help solve intermittency issues with other forms of renewable power… when the wind doesn’t blow and the sun doesn’t shine’.
