bust several guts weekly to try to prove their very particular arithmetic trumps all others.
An alternative view is that when fiscal peril beckons, when Scottish households are facing Dickensian levels of need, the very last cavalry regiment you want to see gallop over the horizon is one assembled by theIf you believe Scotland has not just the resources but the intellectual firepower to get us more efficiently out of the hole dug by successive prime ministers, then flying solo is not so much a threat but an increasingly urgent imperative.
The most important one, in my book, is the need to examine Scottish independence through a much broader prism. We need to interrogate what manner of nation we want to build, what values and aspirations need to be laid into the very foundations. A few days later, on December 3, comes, SORTED – a collection of research papers from Common Weal looking at how the first decade of an independent Scotland might be constructed from the standpoint of a healthier, more holistic society.