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, […]