by Stendahl | Aug 27, 2023 | Uncategorised
I’m seeing three separate braids in our Independence situation. The first is in the approach to the Referendum. As England became increasingly neoliberal, Scotland started to notice the deep unfairness of such a system, and to notice that voting Labour...
by Stendahl | Aug 4, 2023 | Uncategorised
In today’s Edin Evening News: A Sunday Times article[1] asked why the UK is so poor, but doesn’t identify the reason. Apart from the brief post-war period when the Attlee Labour government took Keynes’ advice and invested heavily in public services – health,...
by Stendahl | Jun 2, 2023 | Uncategorised
Take a deep breath. No really. Go on. Take a good deep breath. In… And how was that? Was the air good enough? Was it good enough? Or were you a bit disappointed? Good enough? You think so? Are you sure? Well what about your temperature? Are you too hot? Are you...
by Stendahl | Mar 19, 2023 | People Who Are Wrong
A great deal is being written about the star players of the SNP leadership race: “Who should be leader of the SNP? Should it be Humza? Or Ash? Or should it be Kate?” And most of it isn’t an examination of what they propose to do or whether they know how...
by Stendahl | Jan 19, 2023 | People Who Are Wrong
DOUGLAS ROSS IS WRONG. In a recent article in The National, Douglas Ross proposesing that Holyrood have an Upper House, a House of Lairds in response to “a succession of bad laws passed in Holyrood”. Actually isn’t so bad in theory. Numerous democracies around...
