Saving Kezia

Saving Kezia

I’m reluctant to give much credence to an individual who believes in federalism – which is to Scotland’s constitutional issue as homeopathy is to medicine – but Henry McLeish raises an interesting point. Interesting, that is, in that it relates to a recent private...
Scotland – Let’s Talk Currency!

Scotland – Let’s Talk Currency!

I ran a Twitter poll on Saturday and the results are in.  Bear in mind that it wasn’t possible to have more than four options so I ran with the four most likely (option 4 being achieved post two years in the ERM with our own currency and an ‘adequate’ deficit). To be...
Trading Places

Trading Places

“GDP is increasingly a poor measure of prosperity. It is not even a reliable gauge of production” – The Economist There’s a bit of a story happening around Scotland’s oil trade since Wings Over Scotland highlighted an otherwise completely unreported change in the way...