consequencesofunion

The IFS report and population growth

19/11/201319/11/2013 thomas 1 Comment

Yesterday’s IFS report is quite interesting. It’s basically confirming that an independent Scotland will do well at first, but they

29/10/201329/10/2013 thomas 18 Comments

The Herald has today published an article about the new IFS report: The IFS also makes clear a breakaway Scotland

08/08/201308/08/2013 thomas 3 Comments

If you read Norwegian texts from the period when Norway was ruled from Copenhagen (1397–1814), you don’t get the impression

05/08/2013 thomas 12 Comments

Fife is a bonnie part of Scotland, but obviously when it’s called the Kingdom of Fife it’s just a way

27/04/2013 thomas 1 Comment

Most people are hopefully aware that the Scottish NHS and the English are almost completely separate, sharing little more than

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

17/02/201317/02/2013 thomas 4 Comments

BBC Scotland, Pacific Quay: May 2008, a photo by J Dee on Flickr. The Acts of Union went to great