Why there’s no Plan B in the White Paper
One of the recurrent criticisms of the Scottish Government’s White Paper that was released yesterday is that it doesn’t specify
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The UK as a cartogram
When you look at a standard map of the UK, Scotland takes up a lot of space. The BBC’s weather
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Scottish foreign aid and East Kilbride
One of the most recent scaremongering stories to come out of Westminster is Justine Greening’s threat to make the DFID’s
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The Economist’s “domestic problem”
The Economist’s special report this week is about “the big decisions ahead for Britain”, which is trying to conflate the
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What the new nuclear power station says about future oil prices
The unionist parties like to emphasise the uncertainty about future oil prices (e.g., “The tax we get from the North
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The anglocentric media and the London Scots
Yesterday the Herald published two articles that both contained interesting observations about the way Scotland and the independence referendum are
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The powers we need
The unionists sometimes talk about the extra powers Scotland will get if we vote No. Apart from the fact that
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