Analysis
Data centre lobbying relies on ignorance – so get informed
The whole lobbying strategy of the AI and data centre industries is based on you (and the politicians) not really understanding what is going on. That is why it’s really important to understand the true economics of data centres.
Pay attention Scotland – we’re cutting our own throat
There are major developments in the global economy that ought to be influencing policy in Scotland. Instead we appear to be about to do precisely the opposite of what we should be learning, and we’ll pay a price for it.
Round and round we go, down and down we slide
The SNP is now repeating promises it previously failed to live up to at what seems like an increasing rate. They have shed credibility and are now just going through the motions – and yet they will rule over us for another five years.
A simple proposal
Our world is becoming more complicated by design and it’s being done to exploit us. It is a time we fought back in favour of simplicity and systems we can actually understand – and trust.
Indy movement, there’s more than one way to connect
People have pursued a referendum as a shortcut to making people have to listen to the case for independence. The fact that we have failed in this does not mean there is no other effective way to communicate to our audience.
Drawing willies and stopping the far right
We have seen our information ecosystems transformed over the last 20 years and the consequences have been appalling. We are capable of fighting back with a better system of information, but there are lessons we must learn first.
On customers, Cambridge and capitalism
The Jason Arday case has been told on the terms the far right wants, and this misses an important factor. This affair has as much to do with the marketisation of public services as it does with race theory.
The Scottish Government is shutting down transparency, one obstruction at a time
It seems that the Scottish Government is willing to go right to the extent of the law and beyond in covering up its actions these days. Since it is judge and jury on itself between elections, it is hard to see how this situation can get any better.
Scotland will be independent but not through electoral tricks
Scotland has an advanced economy and must become independent with proper international recognition. We’re not going to achieve that if we try and trick our way out of the UK without the strong support of the public.
Bad economics lead to bad decisions…
Yet again, we are being told that there are special economic laws that mean that there are perfect and imperfect tax rates. The theory concerned is highly flawed, and it isn’t even showing the thing that it is claimed to show.
We failed to invest cleverly – can we learn?
Our failure to understand why China is so good at manufacturing is the failure that will stymie the Burnham Government and which is at the heart of Scotland’s weak government. Where you invest your money matters too much to be left to chance.
The ‘media pen’ is bad for democracy
Democracy is a promise and a relationship and the Holyrood media pen breaks both of them. Everywhere democracy has been imperilled, it has begun with smaller acts like this.