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Co-founder Sceptical Scot, co-founder WalkingHeads, writer, editor, blogger, woodland gardener
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A tale of three waterside species – the beaver, the mink and the human being (opens the original)
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When Scotland had a freer press (opens the original)
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Burnham and the limiting politics of growth (opens the original)
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Recent evidence also suggests that devolving economic and taxation powers alone is unlikely to raise the growth rate. The devolved Scottish government is a classic example, in terms of warm words but cold feet, when it comes to prioritising growth. John McLarenPolitical economist John McLaren has worked in the Treasury, the Scottish Office, and for a variety of economic think tanks – and lived long enough in Manchester to see the skyline change. <a href="https://sceptical.scot/2026/07/burnham-an
Treading softly in the Jurassic glade (opens the original)
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So far Nature has proved resilient to the forces of volcanoes, asteroids, meteorites, ice ages and varying atmospheric extremes of the five great extinctions. Now the big threat is from us: Homo sapiens. We bipeds emerged a mere 200,000 (maybe 300,000?) years ago. I hope we become wise enough to stop the Holocene extinction.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZmjR!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.
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