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A repository for reports, opinions and bits of writing on labour, trade union and other issues by a union activist and retired social worker.

Sunday 28 February 2021

A committee system fit for purpose?

Despite myself, and in the knowledge that there are no good guys here, I've been watching the Salmond evidence session to the Parliametary Committee.

With the media focussing on a personalised Salmond/Sturgeon spat, you'd be forgiven for missing the astonishing allegations of arrogance and abuse of power, legal processes, and Parliament itself (along with denying information to the committee) at the heart of the Scottish government establishment, some of which will of course be challenged in future evidence.

Neverthless it might chime with what we already know about this government's woeful record on Freedom of Information.