And whilst we are at it never forget this.

Hey wow, this looks amazing.

Ferry fiasco update:

Much wisdom here, including this: ‘There is a crying need to remedy the current echo chamber-generating situation where “civic Scotland” and “grant-funded Scotland” are the same thing.’

This chart is only showing direct returns – extra tax paid by the graduates – so each axis is in fact measuring the same thing. Which is extremely stupid in general for a chart, but more so here in that it is only measuring the salary return – no societal spillovers at all.

Memo to Scottish nationalists: England does not *need* renewable energy from Scotland. Abundant renewable energy potential exists across the entire UK. An independent Scotland becomes a substantially less attractive place for rUK bill payers to fund infrastructure investments.

Dear SNP, this is the most bullshit press release I have ever seen.

YouGov Holyrood *constituency* voting intention (25 Mar - 2 Apr)

SNP: 34% (-3 from Oct)
Lab: 32% (+3)
Con: 15% (-5)
Lib Dem: 9% (=)
Green: 4% (+1)

yougov.co.uk/politics/artic…

YouGov Westminster voting intention (Scotland, 25 Mar - 2 Apr): Labour are now ahead of the SNP for the first time since the independence referendum

Labour: 33% (+1 from Oct)
SNP: 31% (-2)
Con: 14% (-6)
Lib Dem: 7% (+2)
Reform UK: 7% (+5)
Green: 5% (=)

yougov.co.uk/politics/artic…

Joyous scenes at Port Glasgow as the Glen Rosa is 'launched' six years late but the true state of the ferry network is demonstrated by the fact you cannot currently book a ferry to or from Islay *next week*. Great job, folks.

Could someone who has the ear of John Simpson bring it to his attention that he's uncritically repeating Scottish Nationalist fake history?

A friend just asked me how I was promoting the book. 'Are you giving interviews and stuff?'

I think I'd enjoy that. Anyone want to interview me? Preferably people who can broadcast or publish it, but I'll take what I can get

After I tweeted this thread, the Home Office phoned me up and said I was lying.

It never goes away. This lie was invented in 2013. I marked the anniversary with this: gordon-barclay.net/wp-content/upl…

If all the modelling then suggested raising taxes on top earners would lose revenue why have they done just that with
Threshold freeze
Inc % on earners >£43650
A new higher still tax on over £75,000
[at the same time a regressive council tax freeze]
SNP are all over the place

twitter eh?

daft to suggest higher taxes paid by Scots enable these additional benefits - Scot Gov’s own figures show we typically raise less revenue per head but consistently benefit from far higher spending per head, so it’s self-evidently UK-wide pooling & sharing of taxes that funds them