by The Editor | Aug 15, 2017 | Politics
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...
by The Editor | Aug 15, 2017 | Politics
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...
by The Editor | Aug 11, 2017 | Politics
Follow @BlogAlba So on the back of my previous blog ‘Why are the SNP not officially rebutting the Scottish media?’ post which seems to have created much discussion, I felt it right to discuss what my proposition would be regards how the SNP tackle the mainstream media...
by The Editor | Aug 11, 2017 | Politics
“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...
by The Editor | Aug 10, 2017 | Politics
So before I start on this blog post, let me make something clear. This is a post about why I believe we have made a collective error in judgement by ‘resetting’ the legislative plan for Indyref2. My thoughts are that I fear Nicola Sturgeon putting the legislative...