Kevin Hague

sorry missed this: my issue is when those who favour separation lie about the current economic reality (the “economic argument”) to persuade others to join them, is all

Fiscal Reality Bites

and here for a through debunking of the “send more to westminster than we get back” nonsense

www.these-islands.co.uk/publications...

GERS 2025: Full Fiscal Autonomy? Kevin Hague uses the latest GERS figures to compare Scotland’s fiscal position with independent EU countries and argues that a fiscally autonomous Scotland would need to dramatically reduce investment...

here’s some of the detail you’re searching for

www.these-islands.co.uk/publications...

The Norwegian Nobel Prize committee has been forced to make a statement, declaring that the prize cannot be transferred.
It's hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become

He remains, to this day, the first and only songwriter to have voluntarily renounced his songwriting royalties for a charity record and forced his publisher to accept it. He could have made millions from that song. They went to the actual charity instead.

this (as with so much else Philippe writes) is a thread very much worth reading

amen to that

The "don't have an extra kid if you can't afford it" brigade get awfully upset when you suggest they don't stay in their £2m house if they can't afford it, don't they?

Today's 70% fall in net migration to 205,000 was not one of the six stories in BBC ten o'clock news.

Ta massive assymetry in whether rises in immigration and falls in immigration are considered newsworthy by broadcasters

Down by 140k isn't thought to be.

Up by 140k undoubtedly would be.

Quite the correction by the Telegraph. The publication in question is @freemovement.bsky.social

i certainly hope it would

Watch as Deputy First Minister Kate Forbes MSP unveils £50m private and public investment in Highland Broadband, Scotland’s full fibre broadband builder.   We were delighted to be joined earlier this…... Watch as Deputy First Minister Kate Forbes MSP unveils £50m private and public investment in Highland Broadband, Scotland’s full fibre broadband builder.   We were delighted to be joined earlier this ...

so proud of the progress Highland Broadband has made - now fully funded to address the “digital divide” experienced in large parts of the Scottish Highlands

www.linkedin.com/posts/highla...

OK this is amazing.
Trump’s Truth Social has its own AI search tool, which company debuted a month after Trump signed an exec order to end use of “Woke AI” in federal government.
Here's how it responds to questions about tariffs, who won 2020 election, Jan 6, etc:
www.thebulwark.com/p/pardon-the...

Clear out toys now!

Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round

Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?

was a decent evening to be returning to Edinburgh

if i’d seen this half an hour earlier i’d have been able to wave and say hi

Did someone say beveragino?

thread

BBC really burying the lede there

i’m willing to accept that there might be a worse innovation than the Dyson Airblade Tap, but if there is i have yet to see it

great thread 😮

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some journalists’ thirst for grievance is insatiable, this is egregiously bad reporting:

the UK obviously can’t benefit from electricity which *isn’t generated* and Scotland doesn’t “bear the brunt” of these constraint PAYMENTS, it *benefits* from them (ffs)

www.heraldscotland.com/news/2558775...

ftaod: the people who “bear the brunt” of these constraint payments are bill payers across the entirety of Great Britain

when I say “Scotland” here i risk falling into the Nationalists’ trap - i should really say “the private companies who rely on the GB energy market’s subsidy regime to support their investment in wind farms in Scotland”

when I say “Scotland” here i risk falling into the Nationalists’ trap - i should really say “the private companies who rely on the GB energy market’s subsidy regime to support their investment in wind farms in Scotland”

some journalists’ thirst for grievance is insatiable, this is egregiously bad reporting:

the UK obviously can’t benefit from electricity which *isn’t generated* and Scotland doesn’t “bear the brunt” of these constraint PAYMENTS, it *benefits* from them (ffs)

www.heraldscotland.com/news/2558775...

Prince Andrew reveals his new coat of arms