Category: Politics

Politics

Commentary: Bill Magee

A school fire in Scotland is front page news even if casualty free. Imagine a nightmare scenario where well over 2,000 schools are either damaged or destroyed and goodness knows how…

30 September 2021
Politics

Commentary: Bill Magee

I guess we all have a hot topic: a burning issue or area that furrows our brow and sets us off in what I would describe as silent fury. For me, it’s…

27 September 2021
Politics

Commentary: Bill Magee

Scotland and technological innovations having a global impact go hand-in-hand. An enduring reputation for sheer ingenuity. Now another cluster of stand-out bright ideas is emerging, this time on the digital…

20 September 2021
Politics

Commentary: Bill Magee

Covid is still around, proving difficult to shrug off. There’s a cost-of-living crisis, strikes aplenty, mass layoffs, ever-rising inflation, and online scams off the digital scale. The way things are…

10 September 2021
Politics

Commentary: Bill Magee

Renewables tech entrepreneur Duncan Dingwall and his small but agile family-run solar and electric vehicle green energy solutions outfit, based in Perthshire, represents the future for Scotland. This is a…

3 September 2021
Politics

Commentary: Bill Magee

By now you’ve probably spotted headlines hyping-up ‘ChatGPT’, a new artificial intelligent computerised software program that kind of thinks and takes decisions for you and me. It has academics and…

29 August 2021
Politics

Commentary: Bill Magee

The next time you’re on a city centre retail therapy expedition or just out for a walk to build up your daily steps towards that elusive 10K, prise your nose…

24 August 2021
Politics

Commentary: Bill Magee

It is worrying to learn that, according to UNESCO, as many as half of the world’s 6,000-plus languages face dying out in the next 30 years. And that doesn’t necessarily…

18 August 2021
Politics

Commentary: Bill Magee

Tam is a typical Scots teenager with time on his hands or rather at his fingertips. A bright kid good at science and maths, unfortunately he has placed school in…

12 August 2021
Politics

Commentary: Bill Magee

Many parents will think nothing of posting photos and videos of their children online to show the world how wonderful they are. Yet, it is rather unnerving to learn that…

8 August 2021