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The Herald and Scotsman Publications newspapers have both been looking to the future and questioning Scotland’s business leaders about their thoughts on the dreaded double dip recession. Scotland On Sunday quizzed some nineteen business people ranging from David Nish, the Chief Executive at Standard Life, to Leigh Wilson, the Chief Executive at JetLogic private aviation firm. As you might expect, when you ask nineteen people the same questions then you don’t get nineteen identical answers. However, while the interviewees’ views on the likelihood of a double dip ranged from ‘probably not’ to â€
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Worried readers buy more newspapers than contented readers as they try to keep up with events. As a result, newspapers tend to focus on the gloom more readily than any rays of sunshine. Even so, today’s Scottish newspapers make particularly bleak reading. According to the headline of a double page spread in The Scotsman, things aren’t looking rosy for the economy north of the border. ‘Scotland on course for perfect double dip storm’ is the cheery headline. The first par follows up with the assertion that the feared double dip could come about because ‘the country’s economy failed to grow during the first three months of the year’.
