Month: July 2018

Trump, the first Keynesian GOP president in many, many years. Bigly. US gov’t spending now up $125 bln over last year. Growth rate 3.54% y-o-y. Spending really accelerating. It’s expected ...

Dear Mr. Trump,I’m a big fan of your work. Especially your later stuff. You are the obvious natural successor to those other great leaders, Richard Nixon and George W. Bush ...

Opinion Scotland Have we reached peak SNP? Don’t count on it Lesley Riddoch The Scottish National party’s leader Nicola Sturgeon may have lost some of her shine, and the campaign ...

Most of Scottish Twitter has been enjoying itself greatly for the last few hours after England’s exit from the World Cup, but scattered in amongst the amusing memes has been ...

Opinion Scotland May and Sturgeon are battling for Scotland’s future. Who will blink first? Lesley Riddoch With few economic downsides so far, many Scots hoped they could ignore the Brexit ...

Whether Scotland wins or loses, whether it’s rugby, football, or cricket, whether it’s a National Side or a club side, whether it’s professional or amateur, there is always a nagging ...

Opinion Scotland May’s speech shows how little Scotland means in her dangerous game of Brexit Lesley Riddoch The Brexit vote has changed everything, and independence is now a realistic option ...

It's been ages since I last calculated a polling average on independence, so I thought it might be time to give it a spin.  For those who don't remember, the ...

Opinion Scotland Nicola Sturgeon has good reasons for wanting Britain to stay in the EU Lesley Riddoch While Brexit might seem to serve the SNP’s goal of Scottish independence, the ...