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The right measures now will not only keep companies afloat in the short term but equip them to support an economic rebound when the crisis is passed.
The Government has sat on its hands over the National Retraining Scheme. Ministers need to be empowered to deliver it – with laid-off workers in the fast lane.
I am redoubling my engagement with the Northern Ireland business community because they need to know that we are committed to ensuring UK connectivity remains strong.
While stopping the spread of the pandemic is the Government’s number one priority, steps need to be put in place to support a returning workforce.
It is a supreme irony that the EU has effectively ended free movement, while the UK continues to embrace it
We should make any such reductions in tariffs conditional on meeting standards of food safety, animal welfare and environmental protection which are as good as our own.
We should make any such reductions in tariffs conditional on meeting standards of food safety, animal welfare and environmental protection which are as good as our own.
After the Conservative success in last year’s general election, it seemed telecanvassing was on hold for the time being. But it could be useful over the coming months.
Even before the Coronavirus outbreak started, China has been aggressive adversary on the world stage. We must be more wary than we have been in the past.
A 22-person team from Police Scotland worked for over a year identifying and interviewing almost 400 hoped-for complainants and witnesses against Alex Salmond. This entire extensive and painstaking process resulted in nil charges and nil witnesses. Nil…
Effectively, for much of the population, UBI would merely take their money and then give it back to them. What’s the point?
A deep reservoir of community and contribution, obscured in normal times, has been uncovered by our present situation.
It will come as little surprise to any observer of the Scottish media for the last decade that the trial of Alex Salmond is to continue indefinitely after the actual court case that cleared him of all charges. With very occasional honourable exceptions…
What it comes down to is that many western countries, like the USA, are about to double their national debt in record time of two or three years.
Whilst I find the present curtailment of my personal right to roam frustrating, I reluctantly sympathise.
Social distancing in a crowded urban park is ceaseless effort; on a rural stroll, effortless. Yet Derbyshire Police insist that we confine ourselves to the former.
This article is the only thing Wings is going to say about the COVID-19 crisis, because (a) we’re on holiday, (b) it has very little to do with Scottish politics, and (c) we’re not virologists and have no expertise to offer. But in so far a…
The tax benefits of being self-employed should reflect genuine value added relative to normal employment.
NICE’s guidelines menace those with autism, cerebral palsy, learning disabilities and mental health problems.
The reason we will get away with it again, as we did in the banking crash, is that there is so much deflation around, inflation is not a problem.
By taking unnecessary risks with virus transmission we could literally be putting others at greater risk of death if the services they need are blocked.
This is not about NHS on the cheap; the Army has a long history of having to upscale rapidly, and should be used in these troublesome times.
Today a mostly-female jury in the most Unionist city in Scotland delivered the only verdict it was credibly possible to reach on the (total absence of) evidence before them: that Alex Salmond was not guilty. After two weeks hearing an assortment of lur…
No guilt attaches to Boris Johnson, unless by betraying the industry a second time he chooses to endorse and embrace that earlier guilt.
By adapting the Statutory Maternity Pay system, the Chancellor’s Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme will improve the lives of thousands of people.
It should be moved away from how we stop becoming infected ourselves and start to focus on how we stop infecting those who might be at particular risk.
With parents having to balance their children’s education with their own employment demands, how can technology facilitate these two demands?
Coronavirus is unlikely to be “the big one” in terms of pandemics; this is why we must step up our preparations for next time.