For those with an interest in Scotland and its economy, I think what I had to say in The National yesterday was quite significant: There
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19 October 2023 – and the need for an honest debate on the Scottish currency
Will Scotland hold the consultative referendum on its future that Nicola Sturgeon promised yesterday? Combined legal weight of opinion suggests that this is unlikely as
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Scotonomics – next Monday
I share this. The links in the Tweet are live, and with a referendum back in focus what we’ll be discussing has growing relevance: We
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Lord Geidt has highlighted the absence of ethics in No.10. The absence of ideas in politics will, however, be harder to solve
I am not sure that the No.10 ethics adviser, Lord Geidt, intended to yesterday set himself up as the person to bring Johnson down, but
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The Tory’s approach to fraud is undermining the UK
My article in The National yesterday was tweeted by them using this, slightly worrying, image: As I concluded: Once fraud is accepted as normal in
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Government Expenditure and Revenue Scotland has to go
I 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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Scotland wants to be free from rule by financial elites
In my column in The National newspaper in Scotland yesterday I wrote: I happen to think that political economy is at least as important as
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Consigning the sterlingisation zombie to history
It is big news when an issue to which this blog has contributed makes it to be an FT headline, but it happened this morning:
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Why won’t the SNP’s leadership let its members take the lead on the currency?
As The National newspaper has reported in Scotland this morning: The Alba Party has said it will do the “heavy policy lifting” on independence after
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