Tag Archives: future
A Citizen’s Assembly
The Scottish Government have recently announced (https://www.citizensassembly.scot/) they will arrange to conduct a “citizen’s assembly” to discuss the future of Scotland. Scottish Liberal Democrats party leader has indicated he will not participate in this exercise as they believe it is … Continue reading
A Personal Manifesto – A Leap into the Future
I recently read a book by Naomi Klein called “No is Not Enough”. It discussed how shock political tactics are being used to generate one crisis after another. Policies that are destroying our environment, our economy, our security and a … Continue reading
Scotland 2030: Education
One of the areas up for discussion across several tables last Saturday was in connection with education. I wrote my own view on this some time ago which can be read here. Originally the discussion was around “formal education” – … Continue reading
Rio Connection: What are we asking for?
The Stop Climate Chaos Coalition are raising the issue of the Rio+20 Summit later this year. Since the original Earth Summit in 1992 a lot has been achieved but, we need our Parliament to remain committed to delivering a green … Continue reading
Edington Hospital Forum
Last week, as a representative of the East Lothian Health Network, I deputised for a colleague at a meeting of the above forum. The purpose of the meeting was to review progress of the future of this local cottage hospital … Continue reading
So where is the other Yes document?
Yesterday the Separatist movement published their long awaited document aimed at answering every question everyone has about their vision for an independent Scotland. Several people were criticising it almost right away but with it being about 700 pages long unless … Continue reading →