Scotland has a large financial services industry. A great many jobs in Scotland depend on it. The problem is that, for an independent state of our scale, it would look too large for comfort. We’ve heard the likes of Standard Life make noises about having to consider alternative arrangements, to be implemented in the event […]
There’s an interesting selection of pieces by assorted literati of various inclinations to be found at this link to the Guardian’s site: How Writers Vote The one that particularly caught my eye is that by Richard Holloway, former Episcopalian bishop and now much more than that. Holloway describes himself as “an agnostic who has decided […]
There are those who argue that in the referendum debate we should not be majoring on the economics, but should rather be talking about cultural identity: to be able to give full expression to that separate identity and to nurture it properly, we need to have political independence, goes the line. That worries me. Whilst […]
Or perhaps Frankenstein meets the Wolf Man . . . Good summary of last night’s BBC debate to be found at the great Bella Caledonia site: Flipper Flopped Flapped and Failed For what it’s worth, I didn’t think Darling was significantly worse than he had been in the first debate. Stark truth is that he […]
BLOODY REFERENDUM. You can’t get away from it. Shut your eyes and doze off for a while – it’s still there when you open them again. No matter what my ambitions for this blog might have been – and still may be – for the next month or so I’ll need to deal with this subject, […]