Category: Op-ed
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Take the environment seriously if you have your eyes on Bute House
First published in the National on 11th October WITH the SNP gathering in Aberdeen for their conference this weekend, all attention will be on next year’s Holyrood election. The sense of invincibility that surrounded the party for so long was punctured by Labour’s victory in the 2024 General Election, which seemed to clear Anas Sarwar’s path…
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UK ministers must not miss chance to heed devolution
This first appeared in The National, on Saturday 5th April 2025. When Scotland votes in the Holyrood election next year there will be voters casting their ballot who were born in 2010, when Scotland had its fourth First Minister and was preparing for the fourth election of the devolution era. Devolution is not new – and the…
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Climate change: Scottish farming needs help to reduce its stubbornly high greenhouse gas emissions
First published in the Scotsman. There was good news and bad news in Scotland’s latest climate emissions statistics, published last week. The good news is that our emissions have fallen significantly over the past decades, down nearly 50 per cent since 1990. The bad news is that we missed our 2021 target, meaning we have even…
Dan Paris 