{"id":72464,"date":"2023-10-20T08:19:32","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T07:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=72464"},"modified":"2023-10-20T08:19:32","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T07:19:32","slug":"scottish-bonds-a-brave-move-thats-about-thinking-big","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2023\/10\/20\/scottish-bonds-a-brave-move-thats-about-thinking-big\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottish bonds: a brave move that&#8217;s about thinking big"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recorded this in a single take on Tuesday evening. It <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenational.scot\/news\/23862881.richard-murphy-applauds-humza-yousafs-brave-bond-plans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">was in The National yesterday<\/a>, but I do not think it too late to share here:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Top economist &#039;applauds&#039; Humza Yousaf&#039;s bond plans\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SRKqNmPyvZo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As with other political parties, I am more than happy to criticise the SNP when I think it right to do so. But I will give praise when it is due. On this occasion, that is what I have done. This was a radical move, and for that reason, it's welcome, not least because it's a lot more progressive than anything Labour is saying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recorded this in a single take on Tuesday evening. It was in The National yesterday, but I do not think it too late to<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2023\/10\/20\/scottish-bonds-a-brave-move-thats-about-thinking-big\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,140],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-scotland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72464"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72466,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72464\/revisions\/72466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}