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The Eurovision Song Contest, Kosovo and Scotland

22/02/201422/02/2014 thomas 1 Comment

Today’s scare story (do they coordinate them to ensure there’s at least one every day, I wonder?) comes from the

18/02/201418/02/2014 thomas 11 Comments

During his brief visit to Edinburgh, George Osborne said that the pound is not a CD collection that can be

16/02/201416/02/2014 thomas 18 Comments

In my recent post about Osborne’s bullying session in Edinburgh, I wrote: By ignoring [the alternatives to a currency union]

13/02/201413/02/2014 thomas 11 Comments

I had expected George Osborne’s speech today to rule out a currency union and then discuss why a free-floating Scottish

12/02/201412/02/2014 thomas 7 Comments

Everybody is expecting the Unionist parties to state tomorrow that they will never accept a currency union with an independent

11/02/201414/03/2017 thomas 7 Comments

In the past couple of days, Denmark seems to have got (in-)famous for slaughtering a giraffe in public and feeding

06/02/2014 thomas 8 Comments

Most modern politicians are great tacticians but lousy strategists. They spend huge efforts on planning the run-up to the next