Brexit: Choosing between the plague and cholera
“To choose between the plague and cholera” (“at vælge mellem pest og kolera”) is a Danish idiom, which basically expresses
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If you see disaster coming, it’s your duty to avert it
Pete Wishart has written an article in The National today, which rather puzzled me. In it he writes this: Brexit
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Why we’re in a hurry
History seems to develop in sudden bursts (the punctuated equilibrium theory) – nothing happens for decades, and suddenly everything changes
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The leaked paper: What will Scotland do?
The Home Office’s leaked paper on EU citizens was sadly rather predictable. They clearly want to deal with EU citizens
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Ceterum censeo Caledoniam esse independentem
Everybody seems to be delighted by the Scottish Government’s legislative programme, which Nicola Sturgeon announced today. I’m not happy, though.
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Entering the Brexit endgame
Rational people (including most Remainers) have been assuming that the UK and the EU of course would negotiate a reasonable
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Winning over the No–Remain voters
The British Election Study team has produced some really interesting graphs showing how the four main groups of Scottish voters
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