Ha. Of course. It appears to have been an increasingly open secret in sindy circles and today’s hasty press conference may have been in response to a leak to press. (View Post)

I hope so, but although I agree with the general direction of Brown’s devomax, I do likely quibble with the details. Ultimately there needs to be a fiscal framework that enables Scotland to pay for i… (View Post)

Scotland has fared about 5%-10% better than other UK “regions” since devolution. Not enough to be very noticeable, but detectable in the data. I don’t think Sturgeon had anything to do with this, rea… (View Post)

Boris is overwhelmingly the guy who made Brexit happen. You can argue for the influence of Farage, Gove, Corbyn, and even Cameron. But it’s unthinkable without Boris. That Brexit is a total clusterfu… (View Post)

The takes that this is great news for the Union etc seem a bit premature. I suspect that Sturgeon had become a net weight on independence sentiment, and that she intuited this. (View Post)