As the trams report opens up old wounds, TERRY MURDEN asks if they are transforming the city As a regular user of Edinburgh’s trams I am delighted to say that I find them efficient and convenient, and particularly enjoy the fact that being of a certain age I can travel on them as often as […]
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Workcationers making holidays pay
Madrid: a popular workcation location (pic: Igor Oliyarnik) Combining vacations with work is a growing trend. JULENA DRUMI seeks out Europe’s top locations Jennifer Clark has worked for a financial adviser for the last five years and gave up her daily commute from her home in East Kilbride during the pandemic. At the end of […]
Top marks: the cost of private school fees
How do you choose a private school? PHIL HENDRY offers some useful tips We’re spoilt for choice when it comes to private education here in Scotland, with some of the most prestigious schools to offer children a fantastic education.The benefits of a private school education are, in my opinion, worth the costs but I’m biased […]
Build a nation on wealth, not cheap insults
Choose your costume and follow the leader – the Coronation and the Glasgow marchers Of course Scotland could become an independent nation, but it would be a huge and costly gamble, and please spare us grievance and mean-spirited slogans, writes TERRY MURDEN The message from an estimated 20,000 who snubbed the Coronation and marched through […]
Joyless Greens are really the Beige Party
AS I SEE IT: TERRY MURDEN says the Greens’ call to abolish the monarchy is another self-inflicted wound for the economy The miserabalists, otherwise known as the Green Party, are at it again. They already want to deny us the freedom to drive wherever we choose, ban the promotion of Scotland’s drinks industry, and halt […]