thomas

Reforming council tax

03/03/201603/03/2016 thomas 5 Comments

I completely understand why the SNP’s proposal for reforming council tax in the next parliament are so timid and unambitious.

27/02/2016 thomas 7 Comments

The EU has made many errors in the past decade. In particular, the way the European Council (consisting of the

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