Thirty-years after the introduction of the Right to Buy - the most successful example of housing privatisation policy in the UK - the current Housing (Scotland) Bill proposes to end the scheme for both new social housing tenants and new social housing. This paper considers the implications of ...
Bill Jamieson
In the current year, for-profit private water companies in England are raising tariffs, while the publicly owned service in Scotland is not. Just over a decade ago, water wars in Bolivia reversed privatization moves. Evidently, private partnership imposes the burden of extra costs. 71. In a ...
Editors' Choice,Holidays,One-Liner,Perfect Comebacks,Post Office,Scotland,UK|Right| December 25, 2024 My mum and I are at the post office to send out all of her Christmas cards. It’s the last day to send them to ensure they will arrive by Christmas. The customer ahead of us is havin...
Although it was modestly observed in the Southern Colonies, Christmas was out-and-out outlawed in Boston as it had been in England and Scotland. “The early Christians who first observed the Nativity on December 25 did not do so thinking that Christ was born in that month,” wrote the Reve...
The right thing to do is keep calling these troughers out, and to keep making a noise! I see on twitter re Wings, that things are all queit down at the media ranch in Scotland. So let’s keep making a noise and not allow them to silennce Scotland! See some of you tomorrow at...
Scotland Great article. I have had plantar fasciitis since I was in high school……..J. Simmons(location unknown) Dear Dr. Mitnick, The orthotics arrived four days ago and I slipped them into my shoes immediately. I was skeptical as to the usefulness of the item, they really didn't ...
“i wanted to celebrate english food, british food,” rogers tells me, passing our table. “pies and fish and chips, all those wonderful local ingredients such as langoustines and scallops; to make a lamb hotpot using the best possible produce.” we order a few of those oban scallops, ...
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Toby Williams, aged 18, from Scotland I was home-educated from when I was 7 to when I was 16. I‟m in a bit of a unique situation with my education in that I was home-educated to GCSE level, then attended school for just one subject, Maths, and taught myself Physics and ...