I know I’ve said, many times, that it’s not credible for the SNP to demand independence without a sovereign currency, because the result would not even
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Scotland should not expect a UK government to play fair if it votes for independence
George Peretz QC and I do not always agree with each other, most especially on Scottish issues, but as a confirmed Unionist he accurately summarises
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Scotland has to choose modern monetary theory
As is, I think, known by most readers if this blog, Larry Elliott, who has been the economics editor of The Guardian for decades, has
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Labour isn’t just failing Scotland with its denial on the likelihood of Scottish independence: it’s failing the rest of the UK as well
I am an instinctive nationalist. I strongly suspect that my Irish roots have much to do with this. I have known where my instincts on
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Who subsidises who? Is London really the one doing the subsidising, or the one being subsidised by the rest of the UK?
Further to my blog yesterday on whether London subsidises Scotland or, as I think likely, the flow is actually in the other direction, my University
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Why is GERS CRAp?
I was recording a pile of videos yesterday and it just seemed the right time to record a Saturday special on my theme of the
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Wee Ginger Dug, and me
I spent last evening talking to Wee Ginger Dug – or, rather, Paul Kavanagh who blogs, writes and podcasts under that name. We did, perhaps
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Scotland’s problem is not that its taxes are too low, but that its spending is just not big enough
George Kerevan has an article on Bella Caledonia in which he claims: His argument is: Is there anything new to say about the latest GERS
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The Scottish subsidy to London should stop now
I wrote this tweet yesterday: The 2009 financial crisis was made in London. #GERS makes clear that it’s Scotland that’s been subsidising the cost of
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