No-one living in the UK at the moment could fail to notice the high profile that is being placed on what has been described sardonically as “our love affair with alcohol”. In the last ten days alone here in Scotland we have had an academic report which states that the costs of alcohol per head […]

The thaw has set in (for now) here in the west of Scotland, but from just before Christmas until last week the UK has been experiencing its worst winter weather since… well that depended on which paper or TV programme you were watching which varied somewhat on what year the weather was last as bad […]

Happy New Year! But not I fear a very prosperous one. This year in the UK a general election will have to be held probably in the spring. At the moment the two main political parties are wooing the British electorate by assuring them that they will be able to get the huge public sector […]