The Scotsman opinion piece, on UK Politics, 14 November 2026
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Read the original article on scotsman.com (opens in a new tab)The Scotsman's leader column argues that the Scottish Funding Council was wrong to refuse to tell MSPs which four colleges face insolvency, and calls for quangos to be brought under a Scottish Education Ministry. It is an argument about public accountability. It names no community and smears no named person. Its facts and figures are not contradicted by anything supplied, so nothing in it misleads on the standards that apply to opinion.
Opinion piece: read for false claims of fact and for fairness to the people it names, not for its opinions.
“refused to say which ones, citing commercial sensitivities”
The column gives the SFC's own stated reason for withholding the names before arguing against it, so readers can weigh the body's case for themselves.
“we are directly accountable to Scottish government ministers and the Scottish Parliament”
The column grounds its accountability argument in the SFC's own published words rather than in assertion.
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