GERS day
Wednesday, August 16th, 2023For those in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, the acronym GERS is probably pretty meaningless. In Scotland, it is big enough that that annual publication
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Where now for the SNP?
Monday, March 27th, 2023The SNP’s new leader is Humza Yousaf. He beat Kate Forbes by the notorious margin of 52% to 48% on second preferences. There is no
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Yesterday was a bit of a day
Friday, March 24th, 2023Yesterday was a bit of a day. There were seven posts here. I had a comment in the Independent in the morning. That was followed by
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On data
Thursday, September 22nd, 2022My comments posted on this blog yesterday on the relationship between GDP and overall tax rates within an economy provoked some furious responses from some
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GERS is still CRAp
Wednesday, August 24th, 2022From this morning’s National newspaper as Scotland awaits the latest annual publication of Government Expenditure and Revenue Scotland, the statement that has always been designed
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Government Expenditure and Revenue Scotland has to go
Monday, January 24th, 2022I was pleased to note these headlines in an email from The National in Scotland over the weekend: The David Simpson referred to in the
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Why the SNP leadership needs to work for an independence for the benefit of the people of Scotland and not for the benefit of financial markets
Sunday, November 7th, 2021It seemed that I caused a bit of a stooshie in Scotland yesterday by suggesting that the SNP leadership were Tories who did not like
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Can Scotland afford to be independent? The answer, of course, is yes
Sunday, September 19th, 2021The London based Institute for Government has opined on Scotland’s currency options in the event of independence. The result is, unfortunately, very London-centric. To give
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GERS on Scotonomics
Thursday, August 19th, 2021I did an hour-long special on Government Expenditure and Revenue Scotland (GERS) for Scotnomics last night. This is it.
