Performative angry Starmer is one of the worst types of Starmer. (View Post)

I was briefly in the prefer the EU to British Union set, but it didn't take long for the practicalities of Brexit to become apparent, and the obvious parallel for disentangling Scotland from the… (View Post)

There's an argument that democratic countries work better with a population of around 5 million or so - such as Denmark and Ireland. Large enough to have some benefit of scale, but small enough … (View Post)

Before the Union Scotland was shut out of a lot of trade with England. Access to English markets was one of the main reasons for Scotland signing up. (View Post)

Some would argue 75 or 80. The population reached a minimum in 1961, so 40 years would be the lowest estimate. But net migration didn't become positive until 1996. (View Post)