by Lindsay Mackie | 8 January 2017 | Blog
Green isn’t always positive. If you are so green you would make a cabbage blush; it means you are naive at best, ignorant and thoughtless at worst. That seems pretty much to be us, the voters. If we had taken proper care to safeguard the short lived Green...
by Lindsay Mackie | 15 December 2016 | Blog
Next week, we may see a five-day Post Office strike in the 300 Crown Offices which are mainly in city and town high streets. It’s maximally inconvenient and will be grim if it happens. Cue huge amounts of spluttering from government spokespeople, and...
by Lindsay Mackie | 26 October 2016 | Blog
The decision by the Wallonia regional government to refuse to sign up to CETA has been greeted by a fascinating set of reactions. They range from ‘hooray, it’s David and Goliath’ to ‘obscure region blocks necessary trade deal for socialistic...
by Lindsay Mackie | 14 October 2016 | Blog
Sometimes things are clear but we feel as if we can’t do much about them. And sometimes things become clear and it is evident that we can do something about them. We’re in that position with the role of Parliament in the negotiations to leave the European...
by Lindsay Mackie | 5 September 2016 | Blog
Travelling in Europe now has a new extension to the social interactions we are used to. As well as the ill-pronounced phrases of delight at the wine/vistas/frescoes/accommodation of whichever more civilised country we happen to be in, there’s now a new pantomime...