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SNP council cuts betray the children of Dundee
You would hope that the SNP leaders of Dundee City council would have the integrity to turn up in the city chambers when they made £18...
Feb 28, 20233 min read


Build a consensus. Make it overwhelming - that is how devolution was won. Independence debate Jan 23
I spoke in the Indendence debate in January 2023. Those who support independence are being failed by their leadership - an alternative is...
Feb 3, 20231 min read


Idiotic Tory wheeze to slash numbers of international students will make us poorer in so many ways
This column first appeared in the Scotsman on 2nd Dec 2022. It can be found in situ here. Back in 1997, I was something exotic. Of 12 in...
Dec 23, 20224 min read
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