I am grateful to Martin MacDonald who posted this tweet: To which he appended this chart: Does anyone smell a rat? Could that rat just
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For the last few years I have been involved in debate on the quality of the Government Expenditure and Revenue Scotland statement. It is how
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I was interested to read an article by Richard Leonard, leader of the Labour group in the Scottish parliament, in the Scotsman today, calling for
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I had an exchange with the eminent UK constitutional lawyer George Peretz QC last night as a result of my claim in my response to
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I posted my tweets in response to Andrew Neil’s comments on Scottish currency here, yesterday. Last night one of the many responses was this one:
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Andrew Neil was ranting (I think it’s fair to say) on Twitter yesterday on Scottish independence and Scottish currency issues, so I wrote a thread
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Will Scotland need its win currency if it becomes independent? Yes, of course it will. But it needs saying time, after time, after time.

John  S Warren, who comments here often, had this post on Bella Caledonia last week, and I thought I would share it here given its
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The Scottish government yesterday broadly adopted the deeply depressing, profoundly conventional and neoliberal suggestions of the commission that it appointed to advise on recovery from
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