The first of my regular columns in The National in Scotland is out. In it I argue: Scotland needs to generate well over 100% renewable
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The heavy price of Johnson’s English nationalism
The world has, at last, noticed that not all is well in Northern Ireland. Loyalist rioting has gone on for six nights now. There is
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Indy myths
Writing for The National
My post analysing the FT’s arguments on the viability of Scottish independence has now been reposted by The National newspaper in Scotland. At the foot
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The FT’s analysis of the economics of an independent Scotland is a catalogue of errors and false assumptions
The FT has published the first part of what it says will be a series on the risk of the UK breaking up. The article
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Alba
I find it slightly odd to make a personal statement on party politics, because I don’t do party politics, but for once I feel it
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The next Scottish government, and independence, lines up as Sturgeon outmanoeuvres everyone
Nicola Sturgeon has survived the challenge to her authority whatever the Tories now do with a vote of no-confidence. The Hamilton enquiry has exonerated her
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Johnson’s foolish nuclear plan will backfire on him
Currency is the collective power of the people
Congratulations to Jim Osborne, who comments regularly here, on what I think is his first article in The National newspaper in Scotland this morning. As
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