Russell Bruce: Scotland’s economic future – a contested space
There’s that old joke that if you ask 10 economists a question you will get 11 answers. If one thing is certain the numbers and opinions being bandied about by economists, think tanks and Uncle Tom...
View ArticleCurran makes best defence of unionism yet at end of Labour conference
The doughty Margaret Curran MP, Labour’s Shadow Scottish Secretary, delivered a speech full of content and tactical positioning in the last day of the Labour Conference in Dundee yesterday.She put the...
View ArticleRussell Bruce: The Economist and ‘the flying Scots’
Much furore has been generated by the latest edition of The Economist with its ‘Skintland’ map of Scotland as a front cover cartoon. A series of articles inside are devoted to ‘The Economist’s view of...
View ArticleThe independence campaign: personal gains and loss
The independence referendum phenomenon has:located me comfortably in something from which I have been estranged all my life;taken something from me that has been a formative presence in my life for...
View ArticleSituation analysis 2: Scotland now – the counter attack
Union is a political philosophy. It is one whose value Scotland understands and with which, in its relative support for membership of the EU, it appears comfortable.Scotland is, however,...
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