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Coll McCail – The Marinera: A case study in Scotland’s vassalage

February 9, 2026 Ben 0

When it comes to the crunch, the Scottish nationalist government in Edinburgh is still willing to do the bidding of the American empire, despite all of it’s anti-Trump rhetoric. Coll McCail is an activist and […]

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Austerity

William Thomson, Dirk Ehnts – Should an independent Scotland adopt the EU fiscal rules?

September 17, 2025 Ben 0

An independent Scotland would likely start life with a substantial public deficit so adopting the EU’s fiscal rules would mean austerity. William Thomson is a political economist and has worked for almost a decade in […]

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EU politics

George Kerevan – How the SNP was seduced by the EU’s fake internationalism

September 4, 2023 Ben 0

The history of the Scottish National Party’s trajectory from arch-critics of the EU in the 1970s to arch-sycophants today. George Kerevan is a Scottish journalist and economist, and a former SNP MP. Cross-posted from Conter […]

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Climate Crisis

Robin McAlpine: Humanity relies on us getting our pitch right

August 9, 2023 Ben 0

Focused on Scotland but relevant everywhere: how to convince a sceptical public that radical climate action can be good for them? Robin McAlpine is founder of the Scottish think-and-do tank Common Weal Cross-posted from Robin […]

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EU politics

BBC – Nicola Sturgeon’s husband Peter Murrell arrested in SNP finance probe

April 5, 2023 Ben 0

The murky world of SNP finances, where money is collected from the general public on the basis it will be spent specifically on a new independence campaign, and then is allegedly used on routine SNP […]

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EU politics

Ben Wray: Are Europe’s independence movements dead?

March 4, 2023 Ben 0

Europe’s independence movements are no longer the threat they were in the mid-2010s, but it would be premature to write-them off entirely. Ben Wray is the co-ordinator of BRAVE NEW EUROPE’s Gig Economy Project and […]

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Robin McAlpine: Scotland had one intellectual – and then he died

January 25, 2023 Ben 0

The decline of a serious intellectual culture in Scotland is a broader phenomenon. Robin McAlpine is founder of the Scottish think-and-do tank Common Weal Cross-posted from Robin McAlpine’s blog In some ways losing Tom Nairn […]

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Jamie Maxwell: Post-Sturgeon

November 25, 2022 Ben 0

Scottish nationalism has hit a wall. Read the article HERE.

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Economics

Designing Global Economic Equality: The Making and Unmaking of Global Egalitarian Policies at the United Nations by Christian Christiansen

June 11, 2026 0

Reviewed by Branko Milanović The just published book by Christian Christiansen Designing Global Economic Equality: The Making and Unmaking of Global Egalitarian Policies at the United Nations provides an intellectual review of the history of […]

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Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World: A New Economics for the Middle Class, the Global Poor, and Our Climate by Dani Rodrik

May 8, 2026 0

Book Review by Walden Bello Dani Rodrik has impeccable credentials as an economist. He is an expert in many areas, including trade and development, and is one of Harvard University’s leading lights. In recent years, […]

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