Journalists accuse the Scottish Government, Police Scotland, the NHS, local authorities, universities and others of delaying, mishandling and refusing FoI requests without good reason. Key ministerial meetings are not minuted, they say.
Month: June 2019
OFFICIALS FAILED TO HOLD COLLEAGUES TO ACCOUNT
Cllr Jim Bollan and the Council HQ in Church Street, Dumbarton. Council rules were breached ‘on an industrial scale,’ says Bollan Dear Editor, Once again
THE UNION ISN’T WORKING FOR ENGLAND
Thanks to Donald Cowie
£1.3 MILLION PLAY AREA BOOST FOR BANKIES
An artist’s impression of what the new site at St Eunan’s will look like. By Democrat reporter Work to transform the site of the former
The film is a homage to the sewing machine
The Singer Story: Made in Clydebank had its first showing on BBC One Scotland on Wednesday May 8, and thereafter on BBC iPlayer. It is not to be missed. The film was made by TVI Vision, whose executive producer, Maurice Smith, answers the questions…
A blog about Scotland and being Scottish
There is no better way of gauging the morale of a nation than through its literary voices, and throughout the 1990s I turned avidly to the new wave of literary novelists such as Janice Galloway and James Robertson, crime writers such as Ian Rankin and Val McDermid, and poets such as Kathleen Jamie and Jackie Kay, Robert Crawford and Carol Ann Duffy, who were overturning the old assumptions left, right and centre.