The SNP would have won 221 seats in England and Wales
The SNP’s huge victory in the General Election saw some truly incredible swings. It made me wonder what would have
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Between a rock and a hard place
The Scottish MPs from the Unionist parties are finding themselves in an increasingly difficult position as a Yes vote seems
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Dividing up the Bank of England like a CD collection
During his brief visit to Edinburgh, George Osborne said that the pound is not a CD collection that can be
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The most realistic answer
A short while ago, Yves Gounin (who is a high-ranking government official in France) wrote a very interesting article in
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Wakening up to reality
Until very recently, journalists and politicians in the rUK were dismissing Scottish independence as something that clearly would never happen,
Read moreThe foreignness scale
In a recent blog posting, Herald journalist David Leask wrote: ‘[T]here are many places […] where the concept of “foreign”
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The Kingdom of England, Wales and Northern Ireland
In an old blog post last year, I discussed the names the rUK might adapt after independence: The United Kingdom
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