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The English Patient – an exercise in financial gravity

Published on 23 March 2015

Having looked at the latest discussions on UK public spending and the European Investment Bank’s plan for their strategic investment fund, the situation looks ever more like my cartoon, with loads of money draining out of the patient and not so much going in.

The parties representing Irish, Welsh and Scottish nationalists […]

The Smith Commission Report – buying the Great SNP Bluff

Published on 1 March 2015

The Smith Commission was established to convert the ‘vows’ made by Cameron, Clegg and Miliband to sway the Scottish referendum result – from a narrow ‘No’ to independence to a wider and decisive ‘No’.

In his follow-up paper to last year’s influential study of the options for an independent Scotland’s currency, Bob […]