Between the lines: Our fortunes all dance to the business beat

BUSINESS, it's the new rock 'n' roll. This is not a view that many in the realm of politics, whence this writer came, would agree with. To those who practise the dark arts of the political sphere, enterprise, entrepreneurship, trade and commerce are things they acknowledge are important but, in most cases, do not really understand.

With the disintegration of Tommy Sheridan's merry band of Trots and fellow travellers there are few elected representatives – either at Holyrood or Westminster – whose politics is predicated on the inevitable downfall of capitalism.

Most modern p...