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Trying to understand the Tories

22/02/2016 thomas 11 Comments

Westminster politics often makes me feel foreign — the fact that it doesn’t make any more sense now than it

31/01/2016 thomas 7 Comments

Some of the infighting amongst the Yes parties sometimes reminds of the Danish proverb “Frænde er frænde værst”. Literally it

15/01/2016 thomas 60 Comments

In a blog post I wrote last October, I bemoaned the lack of polling data for the Holyrood regions: What

15/01/201615/01/2016 thomas 5 Comments

The drop in global oil prices has all sorts of annoying consequences (apart from the problems it causes an oil-producing

05/01/201614/03/2017 thomas 3 Comments

A term that is often used to describe Nordic culture is the so-called Law of Jante: Generally used colloquially in

05/12/2015 thomas 4 Comments

Like practically all independence supporters, I’m deeply unhappy about the Syria bombings. My concerns are two-fold: Firstly, I believe bombings

10/11/2015 thomas 6 Comments

Lots of people have been writing about how the new powers for Holyrood effectively constitute a fiscal trap. As Alistair