The capacity of the current government to shock is astonishing. Yesterday there came this: https://twitter.com/jacob_rees_mogg/status/1332295965471019013?s=21 The message could not have been clearer. A day before
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Scottish Labour’s contempt for Scotland
I was invited to sit in on a meeting of the Young Fabians in Scotland last night, where they were discussing whether Scotland could afford
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Scottish people want a Scottish currency after independence, so why doesn’t the SNP leadership?
Tim Rideout has drawn my attention to a poll that the Scottish Currency Group had included in a recent Scot Goes Pop opinion poll in
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The reality is that little England knows that it is sucking value from Scotland as hard as it can. And it does not want that to stop. And the chance that it might is what petrifies them.
As the Guardian and many other papers note this morning: Politicians across the spectrum have reacted angrily after Boris Johnson dismissed devolution as “a disaster north of
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The Biden game really was not good enough. Labour and the SNP need to take note.
There is a lesson to be learned from the US presidential elections, and those for the Senate and House. There are two ways to present
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Labour is life expired. Its sole remaining core purpose should be to build the new political settlement that the country it seeks to represent needs
It is depressing to know that the left-wing of UK politics continues to be in a complete mess. To make clear that my comments are
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Scottish independence would be a disaster for the people of Scotland if the Growth Commission plans were to be followed
Laurie MacFarlane had an excellent post out on Open Democracy yesterday. This was the heading: The piece is a critique of the work of Andrew
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Why can’t we have hypothecated savings, provided by the government?
Modern monetary theory (MMT) days that governments have no need to borrow. Governments can, it says, always create the money that they need. Which is
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If the SNP is serious about independence it needs to resolve the currency question now
For those who think the SNP is riding high in Scottish popularity I have to say that the feeling is not universally shared. Whilst the
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