Monthly Archives: May 2018

It’s a radical idea with supporters on the Left and Right: Pay every citizen a basic income regardless of their earnings. As the SNP rolls out a pilot scheme, could this be the way to defeat the poverty trap – or just a ruinously expensive utopian fantasy? — Why has Finland taken £6,000 away fromContinueContinue reading “Money for nothing”

The debating chamber was a-bustle all around her but to Nicola Sturgeon it felt like an interrogation room. One of those pokey, smoke-fugged jobs, lit only by a bare bulb swinging from the Artex. Something straight out of The Sweeney. Ruth Davidson turned up for First Minister’s Questions doing her best impression of a no-nonsenseContinueContinue reading “DI Davidson was pressing charges over force cuts”