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David Jamieson
“The fear may be that the incorporation of an enfeebled version of SNIB will lead to waning interest in the policy, as part of a general cynicism surrounding official political life.”
Analysis: Can the Scottish National Investment Bank deliver on its promises?
“Findlay’s Devo Max option is wildly ill-conceived, taken from the perspective of his own political commitments to a more egalitarian, democratic and just society. His own Devo Max option is the perfect vehicle for elite interests.”
David Jamieson: ‘Devo Max’ might be the surest route to elite capture
“Empty work sites and idling labour amid a renewables boom driven by foreign multinationals has become the image of Fife’s transition to green energy.”
Analysis: The transition to green energy is well underway and anything but ‘just’
“Powerful forces are converging around a new stability. But just as with Biden’s eventual, narrow victory in the US, achieving it is harder than willing it.”
Analysis: Biden’s ‘Transatlantic Return’ – and what it means for us
“It is clear the UK Government has lost control over the virus. This will only intensify its growing conflicts with regional and national governments, and the wider public at a time when fatigue and frustration begin to mount.”
Analysis: Furlough extension is a major admission of UK Government failure
“Does Trumpism represent a political project independent from the overarching imperatives of American empire? The answer to this question is ‘no’.”
Analysis: Plastic ‘populist’ – Trumpism failed on its own terms
“We live in the age of the political witch-hunt. A destructive, wild-eyed paranoia is widespread, not just on the social media fringes, but in professional political life.”
David Jamieson: The SNP stokes the Russia witch-hunt at the peril of independence
“The Biden presidency would undoubtedly be the choice of Wall Street. But it would also be the most direct form of rule by Wall Street.”
Analysis: Is Biden-style liberal capitalism the new vogue on the centre left?
“Having abandoned Bolivian democracy to the coup, the international community then stood by while repeated promises of elections were transgressed.”