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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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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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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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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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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There are a number of annoying issues one has to live with if engaging in discussion on Scottish economic policy. One of the biggest is
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I am struggling with an article by Keith Brown MSP in The National this morning. In it he argues: This week’s GERS figures show that
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There were 19,936 reads of this blog yesterday, the tenth highest ever. If you want to know what that means it says that people in
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I have already commented on the Government Expenditure and Revenue Scotland statement, issued today. What the statement suggests is that Scotland ran a deficit on
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