There is still an ongoing debate on whether Scotland would need its own currency immediately after independence. I am baffled by this. The answer is yes
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MMT makes progress in Scotland
There was good news from the SNP elections at the weekend. Both Kairin van Sweeden and Tim Rideout were elected to the SNP policy development
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Trying to run Scotland without its own currency would be like a person trying to be a carpenter without having a saw
I took part in a debate on the need for a Scottish Central Reserve Bank yesterday. This was run as a parallel event to the
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Tomorrow morning, for those interested
This may be of interest to some: Register NOW! SCG Conference: Central Bank, Economy, 'Plan B' & MoreFrom 10.45am on Sunday 29th Nov. Panellists include
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Scotland is leaving the UK whatever Rees-Mogg thinks
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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