Sceptical Scot

4 min read 2022-12-17 00:24:07

Should Wales leave the UK?

This is an issue which is increasingly focusing the minds of many in Wales, especially since Brexit and the impetus in Scotland towards another

2 min read 2022-12-13 00:17:52

The outlook for Scotland’s budget in 2023-24 has undoubtedly been made more challenging due to factors wholly outwith the control of the Scottish

6 min read 2022-12-06 22:34:38

Fundamentalist/pragmatist tension has been at the heart of the Scottish National Party (SNP) since its foundation. Such tensions are common in

6 min read 2022-11-26 01:38:30

The UK is a voluntary union but the Scottish parliament cannot call an independence referendum without Westminster’s approval. The UK government

2 min read 2022-11-25 01:21:20

The Supreme Court judgment on the legality of a Scottish independence referendum can be broken down into three elements. Two are unsurprising but the

4 min read 2022-11-22 04:27:38

The challenge of our time is not so much that exploration of constitutional futures is not being had, but that it is progressed separately within

19 min read 2022-11-03 21:08:43

The best that can be said for the Scottish Government’s new economic paper for Scottish independence, Building a New Scotland: A stronger

7 min read 2022-11-03 19:48:26

The phrase ‘muscular unionism’ is new but the concept is not. As Prime Minister, Boris Johnson called Scottish devolution ‘a disaster north of

6 min read 2022-10-25 21:45:38

For the past century, social democrats have supported a model of society in which high and progressive taxes on income and consumption have been

4 min read 2022-10-22 19:56:23

Nicola Sturgeon and Jeremy Hunt spoke within an hour of each other earlier on October 17: the First Minister to set out her economic prospectus on

4 min read 2022-10-18 00:25:11

The last few weeks have been an extraordinary time in UK politics and in economic policy-making. The currency and, more importantly, the bond

5 min read 2022-10-11 18:41:01

The potential to break the Scottish political deadlock grows as the prospect of a Labour Government at Westminster looms into sight. Scottish Labour

4 min read 2022-10-08 18:48:26

The past few weeks has seen some disturbing events occur with regards to economic and fiscal matters in both Scotland and the UK. At the UK level the

8 min read 2022-09-26 18:25:54

Last week’s ‘fiscal event’ contained some of the most substantial tax policy changes seen in recent decades. Combined with recent announcements

3 min read 2022-03-15 13:18:00

We, the co-editors of sceptical.scot, Fay Young and David Gow, have reluctantly decided to cease regular publication of this online cultural and