Why we didn’t get all the green jobs

As I’ve pointed out regularly, arguably the biggest single political failure of the last two decades in Scotland is the failure to turn our immense renewable energy resources into real social gain. Just as with oil, the wind is making a few rich and a small...

Is this leadership election normal?

Today SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon made two claims to the media in response to the turmoil over the procedures being used to elect her replacement. The first was that the ‘complaints’ from the candidates were not specific. The other was that this is no...

Scotland’s money trees are making us poorer

First published by Common Weal Is there no aspect of Scotland which isn’t there mainly to make the very rich richer? Is there no limit to how much the Scottish Government will bust a gut to increase the pace at which Scotland is asset-stripped by the wealthy? I...

Is the SNP’s central bank proposal credible?

Today the SNP leadership has been briefing the media that it is to present a new paper to the SNP conference addressing the issues with its proposal to keep Scotland Sterlingised for an extended period of time if it became independent. Is what they are trailing a...

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