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GERS Report Shows Scotland subsidises UK, says Professor Andrew Hughes Hallett 26 Jun 2011 | 11:23 am
From Newsnet Scotland EXCLUSIVE: Newsnet Scotland has interviewed Professor Andrew Hughes Hallet about the latest GERS report on Scottish public spending, which covers financial year 2009-10. Profes...
Scotland better off leaving bankrupt Britain 24 Jun 2011 | 12:24 am
From Newsnet Scotland Despite a huge drop in North Sea oil prices in the year 2009-2010 an independent Scotland would have been better off economically being outside the UK according to newly release...
Cost of the Union to every Scot - £2, 413 each year 14 Jun 2011 | 05:32 am
Leader piece on Newsnet Scotland today: Scots must pay £12.546 billion every year just to stay in the Union according to Office of National Statistics (ONS) information. UK public sector net borrowin...
Reasons Scots will vote 'Yes' to independence - Shoogly pegs 14 Jun 2011 | 05:29 am
A piece I did recently for Newsnet Scotland: Analysis by Alex Porter Scottish Unionism has seen better days and there are any number of angles on its current crises. So, as the great referendum deba...
Unionist expert backs Scottish independence 14 Jun 2011 | 05:21 am
A piece I did for Newsnet Scotland: Analysis by Alex Porter A clown twisting a balloon into a dog grabs children's attention briefly and increasingly briefly each time the child sees the same trick....
Apologies for being away 14 Jun 2011 | 05:08 am
Apologies to followers of my blog. I've been busy working with Newsnet Scotland. Now that the election is safely out of the way I hope to be able to update my site from time to time. News Scotland
Not being independent is costing Scots jobs and prosperity 3 May 2011 | 05:43 am
A piece I did for Newsnet Scotland by Alex Porter, Economy Editor As the party leaders clashed last night during the latest TV debate, Iain Gray claimed Alex Salmond’s dream of an independent Scotla...
Contraction underlines Scottish and UK economic divergence 28 Feb 2011 | 01:09 am
A piece I did for Newsnet Scotland: Britian's GDP contracted by 0.6% in the last quarter of 2010 according to the Office of National Statistics (ONS). Scotland UK comparison Although the same figur...
Dollar hegemony takes another knock 28 Feb 2011 | 01:06 am
A piece I did for Newsnet Scotland: by Alex Porter, Economy Editor The Bank of India (BoI) is the first Indian bank to offer trade settlements between the rupee and the Chinese yuan (RMB) from Hong ...
Niall Ferguson: USA could collapse. What about UK? 21 Feb 2011 | 06:45 am
In the video below Prof Niall Ferguson of Harvard University is explaining why the US could collapse under the weight of debt it has. The collapse he argues would be akin to the collapse of the Soviet...
