Blair Jenkins of Yes Scotland has said that the BBC was not biased in its reporting of the referendum campaign.[1] For my part, I believe that much of the criticism aimed the way of the BBC is misguided, in the sense of being misdirected; that’s not quite the same as saying that the criticism is […]
Disclosure of interest: the author is a member of the Labour Party (as well as a Yes voter). The astonishing development since the referendum on 18th September is the news that the SNP has almost doubled its membership over the period, from about 26k to about 53k (and still rising). The Green Party has seen […]
By now, some hundreds of thousands across the globe have watched the video of Alex Salmond’s response to the BBC’s Nick Robinson at the international press conference of 11th September and many have followed the stushie resulting from the editing choices made when the footage was shown on the BBC News later that same day. […]
In an earlier post, I commented on the matter of what our financial institutions, including Standard Life, should and shouldn’t be doing in response to the possibility of a Yes victory. My key point was this: “Unless the likes of SL are to find themselves shrinking to be domestic players only, they have to take […]
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 […]