I recorded this podcast with Craig Dalzell of the CoomonWeal think tank in Scotland yesterday: As they said of it: This week Craig talks to
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Westminster is very unwise to challenge Scotland’s capacity to decide
For the first time since devolution happened the Westminster government has decided to over-rule legislation passed by the Scottish parliament. The legislation itself is on
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The SNP needs to take climate change seriously
The Climate Change Commission has said that the Scottish government is not doing enough to meet its climate change targets for 2030. That might put
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In the Echo Chamber
This is out this morning: The latest @EchoChambersPod with @RichardJMurphy is out now everywhere, no paywall. Listen on the links below or search Echo Chamber
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Scotland: Sorted
I don’t often do a post like this, but then I don’t think that highly of many think tanks and I do of Common Weal,
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Sometime the whole corrupt edifice of the two-party political hierarchy in Westminster is going to collapse
I posted this comment on Twitter this morning: How did we get to the point where there is no legal way for a refugee to
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The demand for Scottish independence is not going away, however hard England tries to out obstacles in its way
I wrote these tweets yesterday just after watching the Scottish referendum decision. in the UK Supreme Court: I have reflected since. In essence, the decision
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If the SNP wants to win a second referendum in less than a year’s time, it urgently needs a credible plan for the Scottish currency after independence
I had an article in Prospect magazine yesterday on the subject of Scotland’s currency after independence. The conclusion to this was: I hope it can,
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Scotland needs an opposition
Having written my article on my concerns about the SNP’s plan for using sterling after independence this morning I returned to Twitter to see what
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