A cut-out-and-keep summary of the claims most commonly made about the harm that Brexit has supposedly done to UK GDP, their sources, their methodology and
The claim that Brexit has already shrunk the UK economy by “as much as 8 per cent” is based on flawed analysis and should not
POLITICALLY, the UK has been moving toward the dismantling of its hydrocarbon extractive industries for many decades. Almost all post-war UK governments, including those of
TOGETHER with David Turver and Brian Monteith, I recently published a paper – Premeditated industrial destruction; How the UK destroyed its industry and a plan
IN THE EARLY 1900s my grandfather in Govanhill, a schoolteacher, knew many locals spent more than half of any income on food. The choice of
AFTER NEARLY two decades in power, the record of the Scottish National Party is no longer a matter of promise, but of performance. And for
PLUMBERS ought to vote Tory or Reform, not Green. Why? Because they are usually independent small businesspeople who exhibit all the enterprising qualities that are
The first of a series from the Wealthy Nation Healthy Nation paper edited by Malcolm Offord This chapter was by Dr Gerard Lyons SINCE THE
IMAGINE you owned a snazzy two-seater sports car and that, as you were going abroad to work for a while, you decided, rather than leave
TO SAY that Rachel Reeves’ first sixteen months as Chancellor of the Exchequer have not been an unqualified success is something of an understatement. Since
When Brazil destroys rainforest protections, Scottish fish farms risk fuelling deforestation with every meal THE CRYSTAL-CLEAR waters of Loch Fyne couldn’t be much further from
WHEN NUMBERS become big they start to lose meaning. Today’s public sector borrowing numbers published by the ONS are big. But let’s make no mistake,