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At the end of last month, I wrote this blog, A Simple Question , . It is in some way a companion piece to a  blog, Numbers , that I wrote la...

I have taken the day off completely because it is my wedding anniversary. When you are married you inevitably mark the major occasions of th...

I wrote a big long version of this earlier but in the end remembered my day to day trade. Questions should be only as long as necessary. So ...

Last January, I wrote a blog pointing out that for the foreseeable future there is not going to be an independence referendum or indeed inde...

There is a vaccine. Thank God there is a vaccine. By the Summer we should all have had it and things be back to (the new) normal. And that n...

Party Conferences have two purposes. Firstly they allow the Party's activists, among their own herd, to  feel important, although in any...

Yesterday, Douglas Ross talked about what everybody interested in Scottish politics should have been talking about for months. What happens ...