What are SNP plans to protect Scottish Defence Jobs?
It was announced in early November that 500 years of shipbuilding in Plymouth would come to an end with the loss of 940 jobs. A BAE Systems plc spokesman said,” It is more efficient for us to have...
View ArticleHow the world can confront Putin
As the Winter Olympics come to an end in Sochi, Putin’s Russia is being revealed as a dangerous blend of unbridled power and corrupt capitalism with nasty overtones reminiscent of the days of Stalin....
View ArticleScotland’s Education Apartheid: A Lasting Shame
The final report of the Commission on School Reform published in 2013, warned that “Scotland has yet to face up in a sufficiently determined manner to the full implications of the congenital...
View ArticleIf Scotland wants independence, it needs its own currency
The more we learn about what an independent Scotland would look like, the less independent it seems. That is the core of the problem facing Alex Salmond and the nationalists. And nowhere is that more...
View ArticleDebt and Destiny
Ever since the dark days of the Financial Crisis of 2008/2009 and subsequent economic troubles, one issue above all has dominated the political landscape: the issue of Debt. Public debt, the debts owed...
View ArticleHow to make Scotland productive in a globalised world
We live in a globalised and increasingly globalising world. We know this, and we have been working quite consciously and deliberately to build the world in this way. And whether it is through...
View ArticleVote Yes to get rid of the effing Tories? Quite the opposite
As we all know by now curtesy of Nicola Sturgeon, there are more Pandas in Scotland than there are Tory MPs. So why should Scotland then be governed from Westminster by a Conservative-led government?...
View ArticleIndependent Scotland would need 20,000 more immigrants EACH YEAR than...
Leading think tank says numbers quoted by the Yes campaign fail to stack up An independent Scotland would have to rely on drastically increased immigration over the next two decades to meet SNP pension...
View ArticleToo many unanswered questions ‘mean case for Scottish independence has not...
Most wide-ranging academic and detailed analysis of key policy areas in an independent Scotland to date finds confusion and a lack of facts on crucial issues A leading Scottish think tank that produced...
View ArticleThe case for Scottish Independence has not been made
Two years ago I founded the Scotland Institute, a new think tank for Scotland. Since then we have brought some of Scotland’s finest minds to bear on the biggest issue to face our country perhaps since...
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