Maybe finally dawning on Scottish Government that it has taken all of the responsibility but has little authority to achieve any meaningful change in Scotland. Time to stop pretending that any devolved administration can have a significant positive impact on climate. scotonomics.scot/policy/just-tr…

LIVE at 7 pm UK tonight In conversation with Richard Murphy about his taxing wealth report. youtube.com/watch?v=KSAWiE…

I think about this quote a lot. And then I attempt to exist in society that tries to steal more & more of the future and believes/pretends it’s a good thing.

#degrowth

The Euro? No thanks! A wonderful story from Yanis Varoufakis: Why currency unions are designed to fail. Scotland has one now. What makes anyone think a new one will be any different? project-syndicate.org/commentary/eur…

LIVE special. WEDNESDAY 8pm. William Thomson talks to Richard Murphy #WealthTax youtube.com/live/KSAWiE3gt…

Latest column in the The National arguing the independence cause is declining in salience, needs a long period of intellectual rejuvenation and to ask the hard questions. Lots of good comments in response. Debate and disagreement welcome.

thenational.scot/politics/24255…

This is rapidly becoming a live political and economic issue, one that (I suspect )will come to dominate much other discussion. It is ridiculous to think fiddling with interest rates will deal with climate-induced inflation.

theguardian.com/environment/20…

In which IEA fails to declare that it has been funded by the tobacco industry since 1963.
iea.org.uk/media/assessme…

It’s fairly straightforward, the longer we leave it, the worse it’s going to get and the harder it will be to fix.

Utterly humiliating.

This is what 'mobilising private investment' in infrastructure often looks like.

Trading with your largest neighbour in a foreign currency. What a disaster! How would America/Canada/UK/Japan/Australia/New Zealand etc, etc, cope? Fine, as there is strength in using your own currency. Staying in the union is only marginally worse than using £ when indy again.

As well as failing on an ecological level, there are also concerns around inequality. 'The Scottish Government’s Carbon Sequestration Policies and Their Impact on Inequality' scotonomics.scot/policy/carbon-…

Scots need houses, not flats.

Goal!!!!! Ex Rangers striker Kayla nets equaliser for Villa Real. But they lose 5.1.

When you know that tax doesn't fund government services (it just accounts for them) you can focus more clearly on the damage that inequality does to our society. And say BYE BYE to the super wealthy who do not want to contribute to a cohesive society.