What George Osborne didn’t talk about
I had expected George Osborne’s speech today to rule out a currency union and then discuss why a free-floating Scottish
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Author: thomas
To share or not to share a currency
Everybody is expecting the Unionist parties to state tomorrow that they will never accept a currency union with an independent
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Scandinavia isn’t perfect
In the past couple of days, Denmark seems to have got (in-)famous for slaughtering a giraffe in public and feeding
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Tactics vs strategy
Most modern politicians are great tacticians but lousy strategists. They spend huge efforts on planning the run-up to the next
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Or to victory!
I haven’t discussed the independence referendum opinion polls for a long time, mainly because they haven’t shown a clear picture.
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Taking the long view
I get really annoyed at the way the No side constantly try to make people think that voting Yes is
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You cannot step into the same river twice
There was a rather downbeat article by Iain Macwhirter in The Herald today: Scots voted for the SNP by a
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