Dundee's recent growth was based around the University and the games industry. The desperate state of the University which has been run with truly staggering incompetence is a major problem for … (View Post)

The blunt truth is that free trade was a very, very good thing for us when we were the workshop of the world. Now that manufacturing has moved east its benefits are far less obvious. There may be mor… (View Post)

Having just come back from morning coffee from Dundee City centre I am not at all sure about this. The town centre is full of empty and to let units. Some have been empty for nearly a decade. Above t… (View Post)

I completely disagree. We were in at least as bad a situation as Greece in 2010. Fortunately we had more room for manoeuvre because we had never joined the Euro but we had a catastrophic structural d… (View Post)

No, it means that if (when) some of our numbers prove to be a tad optimistic we can still stick to the original plan (such as it is) because the deficit is still within the envelope forecast. One of … (View Post)