The Commonweal think tank in Scotland is the first podcast broadcaster to get in with an edition featuring the Taxing Wealth Report 2024. Craig Dalzell
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Freeports are a threat to free markets and to the wellbeing of the populations of all countries in which they exist
The National newspaper in Scotland has been running what I think to be a very important series on the threats posed by freeports during the
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You can’t say MMT does not work because you think Scotland will be a failed state after independence
This tweet was posted over the weekend: https://twitter.com/ian_fraser/status/1771572923913900112?s=61&t=fQEnD35XLiGihXLT1M1wyA The interview was by Karin van Sweeden with Prof Mark Blyth of Brown University in the USA,
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Economics, ethics and other stuff
I was on the Independence Live livecast last night – which was a one-hour live interview broadcast on multiple social media platforms. Independence Live is,
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Ending the toxic politics that is breaking the UK, and the world beyond
Might I make a plea to those who usually ignore what I write about Scotland, and suggest what follows is of universal UK appeal, and
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Labour is not unassailable
Amongst the many false assumptions that Labour is working on would seem to be the one that suggests that it will sweep back to office
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Question of the day: which country will leave the UK first?
I have long felt that the UK has little future. Whatever once held the four very disparate countries* within it together will not, I think,
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Viewpoint: It’s Scotland’s pound, and we’re keeping it
John Warren was recently asked by a commentator on this blog to explain his opinion on what he sees as the deeply embedded Scottish attachment
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938,000
I got a rather excited text from a Debate Night producer yesterday, drawing my attention to this tweet: The critical number is on the bottom line.
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