Terrestrial television channels are responding to changes in viewing habits, writes TERRY MURDEN With President Trump’s legal action hanging over it, and lingering crises over disgraced presenters, the BBC must be taking some comfort from returning hit series that prove there is still plenty of life left in the corporation. It needs them more than […]
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Abundant creativity at Small Paintings show
Small Paintings at Morningside Gallery An annual Edinburgh art show offers something to suit most art lovers, writes ANDY MOSELEY From the outside, Morningside Gallery may seem like another boutique shop thanks to its unobtrusive exterior. Step inside, however, and you find a year-round programme of exhibitions featuring the work of artists from Scotland and […]
No sign of a long term growth plan
While the Budget offered some crowd-pleasing measures, it failed to deliver meaningful change, writes CHRIS BARBER The Finance Secretary’s announcement to increase the amount at which the basic and intermediate income tax thresholds starts by 7.4%, to £16,538 and £29,527 respectively, appears welcome news for low low-income earners. However, at only £11 per year extra in their pockets, this hardly represents any difference to overall livelihoods. These threshold increases also won’t deliver a meaningful […]
Swinney relies on his ‘improbable’ list
The SNP leader is making demands he can’t achieve in order to avoid the party’s shortcomings and widen the divide with Westminster, says TERRY MURDEN The First week proper of the Scottish election campaign has seen SNP supporters and candidates pressing John Swinney’s new slogan “It’s Scotland’s Energy”, a re-boot of its previous claim on […]
Time to simplify Scotland’s tax rules
A needlessly complex tax regime needs better alignment with England, argues DONALD PARBROOK While the fiscal position may leave Shona Robison, the outgoing SNP Finance Secretary, with relatively few options, taxpayers in Scotland surely find the Scottish income tax rates and bands system needlessly complicated. The rest of the UK has three income tax bands […]