“The purpose of an experiment is to determine whether observations of the real world agree with or conflict with the predictions derived from a hypothesis. If they agree, confidence in the hypothesis increases; otherwise, it decreases.” It is time for the independence movement to get to grips with the scientific method. Something does not become […]
Growth Commission
“The truth is, in their heart most on the Scottish Liberal Democrat, Scottish Labour and Scottish Conservative benches hate the SNP because they ain’t the SNP. Independence aside, they love the party and would emulate it if they could.”
David Jamieson: Why we should worry about the stupidity of unionist arguments
“When 75 percent of the nation would vote for independence with ‘the right economic case’, when is the Scottish Government finally going to publish one?”
Ellen Höfer: The blank White Paper
Merry GERS-mas! No, Lionel Messi is not signing for Rangers. GERS day is the geek term for the ultimate geeky day in Scottish politics, where a statistical publication is wielded like a constitutional axe, weaponised as the definitive financial statement of whether an independent Scotland is perfectly viable or a disaster waiting to happen, depending […]
On GERS day 2020, we should remember that economics is about choices
“Problems like those posed by the GC do not go away on their own. They are either addressed directly and completely, or they go septic and rot, bleeding weakness across the whole body of the independence argument. The time to lance the rancid bubo has come.”
David Jamieson: The first establishment blows against Sterlingisation are landing, and cannot be ignored
“Perhaps the most damning thing I can say about this report is I couldn’t really find anything in it that would be out of place in any Scottish Enterprise Annual Review in the last 40 years. This is continuity Scotland.”
Robin McAlpine: More an essay than a plan, the Recovery Group thinks the thunk
“What we ultimately need in the SNP is the space to begin talking about new, positive ideas again. Wider democratic debate within the party needs to go beyond listening exercises. We need to facilitate discussions to develop our independence strategy and economic policy, and we need the democratic mechanisms to ensure the party is delivering the will of its membership.”
Craig Berry: Democracy within the SNP must go beyond listening exercises
“I am sick to the back teeth of independence, a cause very dear to my heart, being kicked around the gutter in a game of image management.”