Our culture and society are awash with regulation and inspection. Virtually every organisation in every walk of life is now subject to intensive levels of scrutiny and compliance backed up by legislatively enforced regulatory regimes. All this, in theory, to ensure that organisations are performing as they should do and delivering good quality services to […]

Unregulated, untrammelled, unsupervised free market capitalism can end up being very similar in characteristics to its erstwhile opposite: a state controlled society where the bulk of economic life is directed by a few large public corporations. To prove my case I will call in evidence that most unromantic of vehicles the humble bus. It was […]

A HEALTHY ECONOMY Two years ago, out of the blue, I contracted a severe form of pneumonia. It was diagnosed relatively swiftly and I was admitted to a major hospital in Glasgow for an operation. One of Scotland’s leading specialists in respiratory illnesses performed the operation which was completely successful. Post-operative care was excellent and […]