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Promissory notes

There was an entertaining exchange during First Minister’s Questions at Holyrood today. Annabel Goldie, the Tory leader. thought she could snare Alex Salmond with a clever line of questioning regarding the status of Scottish banknotes. She succeeded in making headlines: … Continue reading

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UK high speed rail: could it finally happen?

Okay, so we have some modified TGVs running on High Speed 1, but it only goes between central London and the Channel Tunnel. And we have some Pendolinos which now run pretty fast. But such scraps alone do not a genuine … Continue reading

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The Unravelling of Labour Britain

Significant changes are underway in British politics, and Scotland has a crucial role. Or perhaps it’s more accurate to say that Scottish politics is changing, and that it is having important implications for the assumptions that UK politics is based … Continue reading

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