I wrote an immediate reaction to the news of Nicola Sturgeon’s resignation on this blog yesterday, and have no reason to change my opinion since
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Goodbye Nicola Sturgeon
As I am heading to Scotland this morning to discuss politics on Debate Night on BBC Scotland this evening news has broken that Nicola Sturgeon
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Freeports only exist to promote the ideas of far-right politicians who hate the idea of regulation and tax. Why are we tolerating them?
As I noted in my column in The National yesterday: My argument was this: [Freeports] exist to promote the ideas of far-right politicians who hate
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Port Greenwash
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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