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ThinkScotland was established as a virtual think tank in 2006 by Scottish entrepreneur Robert Kilgour to encourage greater discussion in Scotland about economic, social and constitutional policies – from the perspective of mainly Scottish Conservative authors. The site relaunched in July 2012 seeking a far broader constituency as an independent not-for-profit debating forum with a cross-section of topical, political and cultural writing on a daily basis. ThinkScotland’s editorial outlook has always been right of centre – with the aim of explaining and defending free markets and an open liberal society – but crucially without endorsing any one political party – or taking a corporate view. Source

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Burnam’s bottom up Devo is backside down Sovietism

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By Jonathan Stanley
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THERE IS a strange magic at the heart of modern British government. Westminster announces that it is “giving power away”, local politicians celebrate their shiny new offices, and the public is invited to believe that democracy has somehow moved closer to home. Yet magic depends upon distraction, and nowhere has that distraction been more successful than in Scotland. For more than a quarter of a century, devolution has encouraged us to confuse proximity with power.
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Revealed: severe setbacks to establishment Net Zero narrative

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By Douglas Brodie
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THE ESTABLISHMENT has just suffered two severe setbacks to its climate change Net Zero narrative in the form of official publications which show unequivocally that Net Zero is a dangerous fraud. These need to be exploited to the full to expose the utter futility and regressive cruelty of the establishment’s economy-wrecking Net Zero agenda.
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Don’t expect Burnham to save our Oil & Gas jobs

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By Brian Monteith
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Andy Burnham is wrong: group think trumps devo divergence and cannot save Port Talbot, Scunthorpe or Aberdeen GROUP THINKis a problem in many settings. It can happen in markets, parliaments, sports crowds or even just around the sofa watching telly with the family. It is when what is observed or learned results in a commonly held view that nearly everyone thinks must be right, with discordant opinions ignored or suppressed – only to have been validated later to some degree.
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If drink becomes Mein Host, governance becomes ecumenical

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By Jonathan Stanley
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In political movements where a single constitutional goal becomes dominant, governance can begin to feel secondary to the pursuit of resolution. Policy becomes refracted through a larger horizon, and day-to-day decision-making risks being treated as an interim action rather than an end in itself.
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The end of a premiership built on ideology, identity and delusion

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By Bepi Pezzulli
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KEIR STARMER’s premiership ended much as it began: sealed inside an ideological terrarium, insulated from criticism, suspicious of dissent and detached from the country he purported to govern. His resignation speech was a remarkable performance. Not because it was persuasive. Quite the opposite. It was striking for the gulf between the Britain Starmer described and the Britain that actually existed.
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The most important thing a Prime Minister can do

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By Jonathan Stanley
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“TO A FEW OF US here today this is a solemn and most momentous occasion, and yet in the history of our nation it is a commonplace occurrence. The orderly transfer of authority as called for in the Constitution routinely takes place, as it has for almost two centuries, and few of us stop to think how unique we really are.
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Jeremy Hunt: Long on diagnoses, short on answers

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By Patrick Benham-Crosswell
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Can We Be Rich Again?: The Surprising Potential of Britain’s Economy,  Jeremy Hunt Swift Press, 304pp SIR JEREMY HUNT’S ambition was to make a million pounds by the time he was 30 and then become a cabinet minister. It took him a little longer, but he achieved it. Now knighted and languishing on the back benches, he’s turned his hand to writing. His second book, “Can We Ever Be Rich Again?” is easy to read, well-informed, and interesting.
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From the Barnett Formula to the Barnett Fund?

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By Jonathan Stanley
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FOR DECADES, Scottish politics has argued over how much money Scotland receives. The debate has revolved around the Barnett Formula, fiscal transfers, oil revenues and competing visions of the constitutional future. Yet perhaps we have been asking the wrong question. The real question is not how much money Scotland receives. It is what Scotland has to show for it. For as long as people can remember, Scotland has enjoyed a level of public spending above that of most parts of England.
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Obituary: Mike Nevin, the gentleman applied economist

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By Brian Monteith
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An applied economist whose work delivered substantial developments globally MICHAEL NEVIN, who has died aged 70, put his shoulder and keen mind to improving peoples’ lives at home and abroad in the practical manner of developing tangible infrastructure such as roads, housing, sewerage systems, schools and hospitals.
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Where now for the Defence Investment Plan?

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By Patrick Benham-Crosswell
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This article was first published on Sunday 7th June. It looked bad for the Government then – with today’s resignation of the Defence Secretary it looks even worse now. Maybe John Healey’s departure will finally mean defence will be taken seriously? THE MUCH AWAITED Defence Investment Plan (DIP) remains stuck in the Treasury.
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