My contribution to the Politics Home podcast a week ago, when I discussed the above theme, has been turned into a discreet entity. This is
Read the full article…
Scottish independence
I was interviewed on the above subject by Politics Home this week. You can hear it here starting at about 20 minutes 30 seconds. They
Read the full article…
GERS might comply with the rules but so what when the rules are biased?
My attention was drawn yesterday to a blog by Graeme Roy of the Fraser of Allander Institute, which claims to be ‘Scotland’s leading independent economic
Read the full article…
The good and the (really quite) bad of Gordon Brown on Scotland
I apologise to all those who think I have suddenly become obsessed with Scotland, but there is another story on the political economy of that
Read the full article…
Even the House of Lords thinks HMRC makes numbers up
The House of Lords Economic Affairs Finance Bill committee has now published its report on Making Tax DigitalĀ (MTD). I submitted written and oral evidence to
Read the full article…
The two most powerful politicians in the UK
Sometimes it takes one small comment to make you look at things in a new light. The BBC news delivered such a comment last night.
Read the full article…
On Scotland, data, data denial and GERS
I continued to find myself in the middle of a Twitter and blogging storm yesterday as a result of my comments on the quality of
Read the full article…
More on why GERS might properly be called crap data
I was not quite as aware as perhaps I should have been about how passionate some Scots are on national income accounting, whether for their
Read the full article…
Why economic data provided by London will not help the Scottish independence debate
Scotland will have another independence referendum: the only question is when.Ā I have little doubt that if I was Scottish I would vote Yes again. That,
Read the full article…

Buy me a coffee!
