economics

The Growth Commission

25/05/201825/05/2018 thomas 1 Comment

I wrote a Twitter thread containing a few thoughts on the Growth Commission’s report, having only read a few random

31/12/2017 thomas 1 Comment

2017 hasn’t been a great year in most respects, but to a large extent it hasn’t really been that bad,

29/01/2017 thomas 1 Comment

It’s becoming abundantly clear that the Unionists’ main argument in the next independence referendum will be that if Scotland has

10/01/201710/01/2017 thomas 3 Comments

The UK government seems to be moving towards a hard Brexit, perhaps even a chaotic one. Of course it might

30/11/201614/03/2017 thomas 0 Comments

Ever since the Brexit referendum, I’ve kept thinking that the hard Brexit plans surely must be due to a lack

05/10/2016 thomas 2 Comments

I’m half Danish, half German. I grew up in Denmark (before flitting to Scotland when I was 30), but of

04/10/2016 thomas 0 Comments

Do you remember when the Coalition government got into power in 2010 and introduced austerity because the UK’s finances apparently