Arthur Scargill’s leadership of the miners’ strike has been a disgrace. The price to be paid for his folly will be immense. He will have destroyed th…

- Jimmy Reid

From the very depth of my being, I challenge the right of any man or any group of men, in business or in government, to tell a fellow human being tha…

- Jimmy Reid

Profit is the sole criterion used by the establishment to evaluate economic activity. From the rat race to lame ducks. The vocabulary in vogue is a g…

- Jimmy Reid

The political spectrum is not linear but circular. In my experience the extreme left always ends up rubbing shoulders with the extreme right. They ar…

- Jimmy Reid

Robert Burns enriched Scottish song with his genius and is mainly responsible for the rich treasure house of song that we enjoy today. He collected f…

- Jimmy Reid

It is in the public interest to know what our governors are up to. If they are up to doing good, then they are only too happy to let us know. When th…

- Jimmy Reid

Government by the people for the people becomes meaningless unless it includes major economic decision-making by the people for the people. This is n…

- Jimmy Reid

The task of the media in a democracy is not to ease the path of those who govern, but to make life difficult for them by constant vigilance as to how…

- Jimmy Reid

From the Olympian heights of an executive suite, in an atmosphere where your success is judged by the extent to which you can maximise profits, the o…

- Jimmy Reid