Opinions

A few years ago – more than I care to remember – I had a summer job working at the St Brides Centre, and one of the performances was from the Brunton Theatre...

Ever since I was the Conservative group’s transport spokeswoman on Edinburgh City Council, I have never seen eye-to-eye with the active travel “charity”...

Lovely work if you can get it, being a top Scottish Government civil servant but still living in England. You get the benefit of significantly higher pay for...

Most of us have been on the receiving end of anti-social behaviour at some point in our lives, be it just seeing graffiti in our streets or witnessing abusive...

In the many debates about changes to Edinburgh’s streets, the starting point was always the need to prioritise pedestrians. In the pyramid of road users...

Tuesday’s budget debate was predictably depressing with the left-wing cabal consensus presiding over the approval of a spending programme which hammers hard...

I’m sure someone in the Scottish Government is very proud of its new transport document, but the lack of fanfare on its publication suggests confidence in the...

Monday morning for me must rank as one of the most emotional events I have experienced in recent years, and it wasn’t the funeral of a friend or relative. I was...

I was very encouraged to hear plans for a new railway station for Winchburgh are progressing well, until I learnt what that progress entailed. It has been...