On electoral grounds, Rishi would indeed have preferred to have retained Sturgeon in post. Rishi has nothing to say on Scotland, and to the extent he spoke out about GRR it was in the hope of reachin… (View Post)

We should not think that the SNP are necessarily strong devolutionists, either. In fact, the tendency has been to accumulate power within Scotland to an increasing SNP-sympathetic elite in the centra… (View Post)

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)