I was interviewed by Craig Dalzell for the Common Weal podcast yesterday. This is what we produced. I should add for those who think this
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Will the Scottish banks leave Scotland after independence?
This is a guest post from, Dr Tim Rideout of the Scottish Currency Group, with whose work many here will be familiar: It is regularly
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Scotland needs a new tax system
As The National newspaper in Scotland reports this morning: IN the fifth Scottish Independence Convention Transition Paper — Tax Policy For An Independent Scotland —
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Out of the political confusion of this week the new is waiting to be born
There is one very clear message from this week’s elections. It is that politically the UK is in a very confused state. This needs some
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Only a coalition of the good can defeat the evil that the Tories are now creating
My column in The National in Scotland published yesterday is one that could have been written just as easily for here. For copyright reasons you have
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Gunboats, Tories and Jersey
The news is making much of the government’s decision to send gunboats to Jersey today to protect the island, which is a British Crown Dependency,
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Murphy believes
Ruth Strachan, who strikes me as a pretty thorough journalist, has written a review of the economics of Scottish independence in the Investment Monitor, available
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How much debt would Scotland owe the rest of the UK if it were to be independent?
Summary This is a long post that was first published in July 2020 and which addresses one of the most sensitive issues in the Scottish
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The argument on GERS has been won: Scotland knows it is crap
I was amused to see an article in The Spectator by Kevin Hague, with whom I have crossed swords many a time on the subject
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