A think tank called Reform Scotland has issued a report this morning entitled ‘Growing Up: A Corporation Tax For Scotland’. There are things you need to
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An independent review of public procurement is badly needed
For all those who think all is rosy in SNP Scotland, I hate to disillusion you. It isn’t. I share this from CommonWeal’s Ben Wray,
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Common Weal’s ‘Our Common Home’: the best Green New Deal plan yet?
I admit it’s one of those mornings when much blogging is hard, and it may stay that way for much of the day: there’s work
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Scotland’s Declaration of Independence
This story will not resonate much in England, and so I share it here. As the Herald newspaper in Scotland has noted: Prominent figures from
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As close to certainty as anyone can get
I was tempted to write a blog entitled ‘I don’t know’ this morning. There were, and are, good grounds for doing so. No one does
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Welcome to the Scottish Reserve Bank
Dr Tim Rideout is now well known amongst Scottish nationalists: it was his resolution that, thankfully, changed SNP policy on a Scottish currency. He has
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A Green New Deal for Scotland (and pretty much anywhere else come to that) : A long read for the weekend
I republish this from the CommonWeal website, where it was published on Friday. My thanks to Ben Wray for editing it: Richard Murphy, a member
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The SNP leadership needs to break the Union for the sake of all within it
Sitting in Edinburgh this morning it’s a little hard not to have a Scottish perspective on some of the events of the last day, especially
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Edinburgh today; Glasgow tomorrow
For those not aware, I am speaking at a YesHub event in Edinburgh tonight, talking about the Green New Deal and no doubt other things
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