There are strategies and strategies. Some strategies are open or transparent – the ones where you want your people, whoever they are, to understand what you are trying to achieve and how you intend to get there. Then there are closed strategies, sometimes called hidden agendas. There can be a number of reasons for a hidden agenda. In the case…
Month: March 2015
History is not a thing of the past
In 1707 the landed Gentry in Scotland latched on to a get richer, quicker project called the Darien Scheme. Turned out this was a scam and the greedy baskets lost around 25% of the county’s wealth. That bit many of us know. But here’s the rub. There’s a farmer in the lowlands scraping a living from potatoes. There’s a shepherd in…
Short and Sweet
My General Election campaign message is very simple. For me this is exactly what the General Election is about for all the people of Scotland. The general election is not a Referendum. Other parties will try to tell you otherwise. Many Scots were persuaded by the Referendum but felt it was a step too far at this time. The General…
Just makes you think?
All we seem to hear about these days is the threat of terrorism. Our lives have been turned upside down as the authorities wage war on the terrorist threat. The measures taken to combat this threat are all around us. In London you struggle to find a bin in a public area. There are no bins in the London Underground…