Voices of Scotland The crime we should really be hating is incompetence They have done it again, laments STEPHEN LOW, as the Scottish government passes another intrusive Act, this time on ‘hate crimes,’ that seems so unworkable even those announcing it could not describe it accurately
Features | Monday 27th Nov 2023 Voices of Scotland Roaming charges apply: the Michael Matheson scandal
Features | Monday 28th Aug 2023 VOICES OF SCOTLAND The SNP government is running Scotland's NHS into the ground
Tuesday 06th Jun 2023 Voices of Scotland The SNP’s national care service is really an attack on the NHS Be under no illusions — the Scottish government’s new care Bill is a nothing more than a glorified contracting and procurement scheme, writes STEPHEN LOW
Tuesday 04th Apr 2023 VOICES OF SCOTLAND Scotland has a government more interested in performance than policy STEPHEN LOW casts a sceptical eye on a supposedly ‘new era’ for the SNP under Humza Yousaf
Monday 09th May 2022 Scottish council elections – a bad night for us all STEPHEN LOW sizes up last Thursday’s election results north of the border – and warns that local democracy and municipal services are in need of defending
Tuesday 19th Apr 2022 Voices of Scotland Don’t mention the councils The SNP's council election pitch had almost nothing to do with councils, saying little about education, housing or better pay for council workers — instead they are pushing ahead with the privatisation of social care, writes STEPHEN LOW
Tuesday 19th Oct 2021 Express non-delivery for Holyrood The SNP finds it useful for the constitution to be the dominating issue in Scottish politics, meaning fresh thinking on the referendum question is needed from Labour as it struggles for relevance, says STEPHEN LOW
Monday 10th May 2021 Flags beat facts in Holyrood again As has been the case for the last six years the SNP are in charge, there is a pro-independence majority and Labour are in third place behind the Tories. It’s MacGroundhog Day, writes STEPHEN LOW
Tuesday 05th Jan 2021 The SNP's Covid-19 recovery plan is a corporate compromise Scotland will need radical political change after the coronavirus, but there is little sign that the SNP wants to deliver, writes STEPHEN LOW
Tuesday 15th Sep 2020 Voices Of Scotland Slouching towards Ballyskeagh Scotland is suffering a depressing – and growing – democratic deficit, writes STEPHEN LOW
Friday 13th Dec 2019 Meanwhile in Scotland … it’s still 2015 The general election was deja vu all over again north of the border, writes STEPHEN LOW
Monday 02nd Dec 2019 A tale of two manifestos STEPHEN LOW compares the ‘smoke and mirrors’ policy proposals of the SNP to Labour’s groundbreaking template for real change
