As if to prove that everyone in the media spends half their lives looking at data, The National sent me a summary of my most-read
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I might not feel like writing much this morning, but I have a column in The National this morning suggesting that it is time for
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I am proud to write for a newspaper – The National – that puts this on its front page. Most of the media is ignoring
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For those wanting a slightly more Scottish spin on the Budget, this was my interview for The National, yesterday:

Rachel Reeves will be presenting her Budget on November 26, if the Labour government of which she is a part lasts that long. I will be
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Not long ago, Labour thought it could win in Scotland. YouGov now suggests that they are running fourth in the country: They could sink further,
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I did this podcast with Xander Elliards of The National on Monday (and I wish they’d told me my lens was dirty: I had no
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Nationalism can be a politics of care — about belonging, culture, and democracy — or a politics of control, built on fear and exclusion. In
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I was asked on this blog yesterday whether Scotland could afford to have its own currency, and whether the process of introducing one would be
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