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If SNP want independence, they need to put the economy above endless welfare splurges (opens the original)
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In this column last week, I downplayed (with some justification, I think) the significance of the Cardiff Agreement between the leaders of the nationalist parties of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Scotland, by far the most advanced of the nations in terms of sentiment towards independence, nonetheless has no mechanism for the triggering of an independence referendum. The UK Government, the final boss in this respect, says no. The population is split, so there is no reason to expect Downin
There is nobody more adept at shooting himself in the foot than a British unionist (opens the original)
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Every meeting on every day is, I suppose, historic in a literal sense. However we are asked by nationalists around the British Isles to regard Monday’s meeting between the leaders of the Scottish National Party, Plaid Cymru and Sinn Fein to believe that their get-together in Cardiff was historic in a rhetorical rather than simply a literal sense. Time will tell, but for the moment both prudence and evidence would lead us to think that it will struggle to make a footnote in a Wikipedia entry on C
Scotland’s schools have fallen behind England – the SNP can’t keep looking away (opens the original)
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Mairi McAllan is now Scotland’s Education Secretary, but rewind just over a decade and she had just completed her Law degree, practicing as a solicitor at a well respected firm. A person doesn’t just land there without elite academic performance - Ms McAllan is sharp as a tack and she knows what excellence looks like. So it must have been all the more galling for her to have had to put her name to a ludicrous Scottish Government press release on Tuesday of this week, in response to the three-yea
John Swinney is right that Scotland needs rewiring. Delivery is what matters now (opens the original)
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It is true, I am sure, that actions speak louder than words. Nonetheless, that does not render words unimportant. Indeed, politicians are at least part storytellers and so, for them, words are almost as important as actions. Life in Scotland is not much better, at least not in any meaningful, tangible way, for John Swinney’s two years in the job as First Minister. That should not be hugely surprising. The country was in decay for at least a decade at the point he took over, and better vibes do n
Why Scotland's NHS doesn't need more money - it needs reform (opens the original)
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“Yes,” said Stephen Flynn, Scotland’s Economy Secretary, to the question of whether Scotland will be independent by 2034, asked by the BBC’s Martin Geissler during an Edinburgh Festival Fringe special edition of his Scotcast podcast. For full disclosure, I know Mr Flynn, and I like him. I’m glad he’s in the Scottish Parliament, an institution which is desperate for MSPs who are simultaneously bright enough to understand the country’s problems and ambitious enough to want to fix them. I also happ
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