{"id":85328,"date":"2025-08-25T09:03:47","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T08:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=85328"},"modified":"2025-08-25T09:03:47","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T08:03:47","slug":"rolling-out-the-red-carpet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/08\/25\/rolling-out-the-red-carpet\/","title":{"rendered":"Rolling out the red carpet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenational.scot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National<\/a> has a series of articles this week, welcoming inward migration to Scotland.<\/p>\n<p>I am one of the first to comment in the series, and as the National notes this morning:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Professor Richard Murphy today looks at immigration, arguing that we shouldn't just be welcoming migration,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenational.scot\/politics\/25414030.never-mind-welcoming-migrants-berolling-red-carpet\/?action=bulletin_click&amp;sent_id=2922507136&amp;secret=152871&amp;nid=1302&amp;ref=eb&amp;block=custom_narrative\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.thenational.scot\/politics\/25414030.never-mind-welcoming-migrants-berolling-red-carpet\/?action%3Dbulletin_click%26sent_id%3D2922507136%26secret%3D152871%26nid%3D1302%26ref%3Deb%26block%3Dcustom_narrative&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1756195297020000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1bBr3BhUS-Ypli1xjH4pV4\">we should be rolling out the red carpet<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There will be a version of this soon, here, maybe tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National has a series of articles this week, welcoming inward migration to Scotland. I am one of the first to comment in the series,<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/08\/25\/rolling-out-the-red-carpet\/\"><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":[204,35,29,140],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economic-justice","category-economics","category-pensions","category-scotland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85328","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=85328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85329,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85328\/revisions\/85329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}