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 articles of the year in that paper yesterday. They were:
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Speaking of Scotland. I’m up in Edinburgh for the first time in twenty five years. Vibrant and chaotic, in a good way. However, infrastructure is in a terrible state. Dirt everywhere, roads and pavements in a shocking state, graffiti ridden and telling, only a couple of cranes highlighting the city and one of them was a fairground ride. Seems very little finance comes this far north from Westminster. Reminds me of Dublin growing up in the nineteen eighties.
The Scottish finance sector, which was largely Edinburgh, has been completely hollowed out. Scottish Amicable, Scottish Equitable, General Accident, etc no longer exists. All senior managemenf of the 3 Scottish banks are now in London. Scottish Widows became a London company in 2017. Standard Life is just a trading name of Phoenix. You are hard pushed to find any significant company which has a genuine Scottish HQ. This carries over to the lawyers, accountants, etc where much of what was done in Edinburgh is now done in London.
Much to agree with
Might be a salient point Neal, but the Labour Party, with only 10 seats out of 63, are in power in Edinburgh City Council. That only happened because they are in cahoots with the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats, who combined to vote them into power. The largest party is the S.N.P with 19 seats, and the Scottish Green Party has the same as Labour, 10 seats.
Antisocial neoliberal capitalist unionism does not give up easily.
Many thanks for all these underused resources. I cannot understand why they are not more widely read or cited by people making a living writing on political economy.
When the truth eventually reaches the wider public about what might be done to repair the damage caused by neoliberal economics, those economists and commentators who should have known better will have no defence.
The Rosetta stone to decipher the mysterious new economics was always there for them, if they had only cared to look.