When was the last time you heard the shouts, squeals and laughter of young children as they ran, jumped, climbed, built dens, made mixtures and played ‘Let’s Pretend’ in their local neighbourhood? Sue Palmer of Upstart Scotland makes the case for outdoor play
Politics
The Guilty Men: RBS Shredded Part Three
As RBS crashed there was only one man in the driving seat – but his fellow passengers could have helped to steer a safer course. Edited and abridged extracts from Ian Fraser’s best selling Shredded identify four guilty men.
Will Brexit destroy the UK?
‘There is a saying among global trade negotiators that the world is divided between cannibals and lunch. The UK may be finding painfully that leaving the protection of the cannibals has condemned it to become lunch. It was certainly Stephen (Haseler)’s view that the English superstate was just as incapable of responding to new challenges internationally as it was domestically.’
Capital flight – how RBS was shredded: Part Two
[Goodwin] told Alistair Darling that conditions were very bad and that RBS had been considering whether to stop lending to customers. Darling asked Goodwin what would resolve the situation and Goodwin said ‘long-term funding’. How ‘Fred the Shred’ continued to ignore the warning signals, nevertheless.
How RBS was shredded: Part One
‘We don’t care if customers are made to suffer, as long as we save our skins,’ continuing our tenth anniversary series, Ian Fraser translates ‘banker-speak’ as Royal Bank of Scotland desperately struggled to survive a record-breaking pre-tax loss of £691 million in 2008
Culture
Lloyd’s losses paid by ‘mass casualties’
In the final extract from Hubris: How HBOS Wrecked the Best Bank in Britain, Ray Perman counts the costs – born by the mass casualties who were (and still are) the casualties of the world’s worst financial crash. And what happened to those at the top?
Young Fathers: touching the heart of Scottish creative diversity
Young Fathers symbolise the generous new diversity of Scotland. Celebrating the spirit of creative collaboration found in Paisley at Scottish Album of the Year Award ceremony and the launch of V&A design music in Dundee
Two new Scottish Sundays buck the trend
‘ If they are to carve out a place for themselves, these two new Sundays are going to have to do more to break exclusives that set the agenda for the week ahead – and give Scottish readers the excuse they need to change their buying habits.’
Scotland the good food nation? Cross-party call for SG action
‘Arguably for the first time in the life of the Scottish Parliament, there was a real debate about food’, Celia Nyssens of Nourish Scotland records cross-party unity calling on Scottish Government to deliver a Good Food Nation Bill.