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Business Comment: Terry Murden

No, Katherine, sex is irrelevant in concerns over pay

Bumper pay for executives is rarely out of the headlines, though according to Katherine Garrett-cox, it becomes more of an issue when it concerns women. The Alliance Trust chief executive has beenRead More

Comment: Terry Murden

Wanted from party leaders: an Anglo-Scottish ‘peace’ deal

Cameron and Sturgeon
As the newly-empowered ‘fifty-six’ descended on London with a message from home to do their duty, they may find they are pushing at a door that has been left slightlyRead More

Voting analysis

Moral majority: an election by numbers

SNP members
So, which is the bigger, 55 or 56? Trick question? Well, more a case of which one represents the moral majority. These are numbers seared on the minds of Scots,Read More

Election Comment: Terry Murden

SNP’s trojan horse ready to be unleashed on Tory Britain

So, there will be no new coalition, but there will be cooperation, of sorts. Even without the benefit of a hung parliament  that would have allowed it to overturn governmentRead More

Election Comment: Terry Murden

RIP Scottish Labour b. April 1888, d. May 2015

Jim Murphy
The long struggle for the rights of working people began well before James Keir Hardie, the son of a domestic servant and ship’s carpenter, decided to contest the Mid-Lanark by-election inRead More

(7.30 update) Election comment: Terry Murden

The economic tests facing the incoming government

It was always the economy that swung elections. Not immigration, Europe nor the constitution. Yet this time it has played a lesser part in the debate, with financial matters focusedRead More

Election Comment: Terry Murden

Scottish politics must re-align to survive SNP stampede

Scottish Labour
On Friday morning Scotland may make history by having only one party representing it at Westminster. The SNP steamroller is crushing all who stand in its way and the firstRead More

Business Comment: Terry Murden

Fast measures needed for Big Mac’s big challenge

McDonalds may think it’s something we all have in common, but the fast food chain is fast losing customers. A million fewer diners chose to visit a Big Mac lastRead More

Business Comment: Terry Murden

Garrett-Cox will struggle to heal Trust’s divisions

The battle for control of Scotland’s best known investment trust was supposed to culminate this week in a knife-edge vote over the composition of the board. Instead, those still holding theRead More

Comment: Brian Williamson

Time for agencies to focus on the winners

Brian Williamson Jumpstart
After five years of austerity in the UK, and the prospect of five more regardless of how the electoral cards fall in May, one lesson stands out: where money isRead More