Lessons on the rise of UKIP from Denmark for Scotland
It’s clear that UKIP did extremely well in yesterday’s local elections in England. Some people like to compare UKIP to
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Author: thomas
The great currency consensus
The Better Together campaigners seem to claim the Yes side are conducting a civil war on the currency issue (whether
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A difference of perspective
If you watch the BBC and STV and read one or two Scottish newspapers, such as The Scotsman or The
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Independence as a protection against NHS privatisation
Most people are hopefully aware that the Scottish NHS and the English are almost completely separate, sharing little more than
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Dividing England along the Severn-Wash line
In the past I’ve been writing about ways to split up England for the purpose of making federalism work in
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Using the pound sterling after independence
Scotland currently has a very strange currency set-up — we’re technically speaking using the pound sterling, just as England, but
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Thatcher on Scottish independence
In Margaret Thatcher’s “The Downing Street Years”, she has this to say about Scottish independence: If [the Tory Party] sometimes
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