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Using the pound sterling after independence

22/04/201322/04/2013 thomas 7 Comments

Scotland currently has a very strange currency set-up — we’re technically speaking using the pound sterling, just as England, but

22/04/201322/04/2013 thomas 6 Comments

In Margaret Thatcher’s “The Downing Street Years”, she has this to say about Scottish independence: If [the Tory Party] sometimes

15/04/2013 thomas 4 Comments

Yes Scotland has some very easy donation rules: Anybody can donate up to £500 (even people who have absolutely no

14/04/2013 thomas 27 Comments

There’s an interesting article by Larry Elliott in The Guardian today. He neatly sums up why Margaret Thatcher was a

13/04/2013 thomas 3 Comments

Just a bit of light relief, given that it’s Saturday night… On an on-line forum called Pie and Bovril, somebody

13/04/201313/04/2013 thomas 5 Comments

Did Margaret Thatcher create the current independence movement in Scotland? I was intrigued by a blog post on the pro-independence

07/04/201324/02/2014 thomas 1 Comment

Back in the 1990s, when Usenet was one of the most important parts of the Internet, I participated in several