Orcadian Column, 16 January 2025
I hope 2025 has started well for you and continues in a similar vein. In political terms, it’s set to be another busy year at Holyrood, where attention will increasingly turn to the forthcoming…
I hope 2025 has started well for you and continues in a similar vein. In political terms, it’s set to be another busy year at Holyrood, where attention will increasingly turn to the forthcoming…
Orkney’s MSP Liam McArthur has called on the Scottish Government to review the operation of its area-based schemes for energy efficiency to ensure the use of funding available is maximised and avoid…
Orkney’s MSP Liam McArthur has urged the government once again to do more to help island councils address challenges in recruiting and retaining staff providing earlier learning and childcare in…
Orkney’s MSP Liam McArthur today pressed the Scottish Government to go further in making up the shortfall in funding to allow the process of procuring new ferries to get underway.
Orkney’s MSP Liam McArthur has today spoken out in the Scottish Parliament about the proposed sale and potential closure of the Crown Post Office in Kirkwall, calling for the Post Office to ‘heed the…
A measure of an event’s significance is often determined by the extent to which we recall where we were on hearing the news. So it was that when I learned of the momentous House of Commons vote.
Commenting on the Scottish Government budget announced today, Orkney’s MSP Liam McArthur said:
Liam McArthur expressed his support for the farming community at the NFU rally this week
Liam McArthur MSP has pledged to take part in the 2025 Doddie Aid campaign, run by the My Name’5 Doddie Foundation to raise funds for research into Motor Neuron Disease.
“Never pick a fight with a profession that appears in a children’s book”. Such was the advice famously issued by The Economist some years back. In truth, most administrations have honoured it more in…