I can’t help but share this from The National in Scotland today, for whom I wrote on occassion: THE SNP will win an overall majority and have
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The need for a resilient economy
The Common Weal think tank in Scotland is, in my opinion, the most progressive organisation working on economy ic transformation in the UK right now.
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The SNP voted with Scottish Tories against country-by-country reporting yesterday: it was not their finest hour
The Scottish Parliament debated its second Coronavirus Bill yesterday. It was a heated debate, but I am only concerned with two amendments, which were numbers
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Is there just a chink of light in the SNP opposition to fiscal independence for the country?
There is interesting commentary on BBC Scotland this morning for those who follow Scittosh monetary affairs. They note: Andrew Wilson, an economist and former SNP
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For how much longer can Scotland stay in the Union?
Johnson spoke last night. By universal consent, his speech was bad. It was confusing. Amongst the waffle, it was almost impossible to discern what he
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Note to the SNP: You said this, now act as if your believe it by abandoning your commitment to the pound
The SNP led Scottish government has said in a document on ending lockdown today that: The austerity driven response to the 2008 financial crash did
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Why is the bailout so heavily biased to the wealthiest in the UK?
I have already mentioned the work Ben Wray is doing as editor of the Source Direct email newsletter from the Commonweal thinktank in Scotland, which
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Dogma is now a threat to our food supplies
Ben Wray edits Source, which is the daily newsletter from the Commonweal think tank in Scotland. It does not matter, I suggest, whether you are
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For those in Scotland I have just done a pre-record for John Beattie’s programme this evening
The pre-record was ten minutes, which given how I feel was some effort. The subject was whether or not we will have a crash. My
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