2020 November 17

Scottish people want a Scottish currency after independence, so why doesn’t the SNP leadership?

Posted on November 17 2020

Tim Rideout has drawn my attention to a poll that the Scottish Currency Group had included in a recent Scot Goes Pop opinion poll in
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The reality is that little England knows that it is sucking value from Scotland as hard as it can. And it does not want that to stop. And the chance that it might is what petrifies them.

Posted on November 17 2020

As the Guardian and many other papers note this morning: Politicians across the spectrum have reacted angrily after Boris Johnson dismissed devolution as “a disaster north of
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Aid is to be cut, just when it is going to be needed more than ever

Posted on November 17 2020

Slipped into the Politico newsletter this morning was this, which I have not seen in other media as yet: The PM is considering a “temporary
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Is there something that the government would rather we did not know for which they do not want to accept responsibility?

Posted on November 17 2020

Channel 4’s Dispatches programme last night made clear how disastrous has been our government’s management of the coronavirus crisis. Anthony Barnett laid out in his
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The book I most want to read, right now

Posted on November 17 2020

Martin Wolf’s list of economics books for 2020 includes not a single title I have read, and rather bizarrely omits the best seller – Stephanie
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It is the government’s job to deliver full employment. And it’s failing

Posted on November 17 2020

Every now and again the Guardian slips through a Modern Monetary Theory editorial. Today is one of those days. It begins: A great deal of
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