Scottish Currency Group Conference - 2026 - The Final Report

The Currency Plan & Policy Options for Scotland. Final Report from Professor Thibault Laurentjoye.

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The independence case is stuck – here's how the SNP can move it along

THE independence movement is going round in circles and getting nowhere fast. Some might say we are “lost” but to become lost you have to have…

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The NHS Is Where Scotland Pays the Bill for Policy Failure

Scotland does not only have a health-service crisis. It has a prevention, poverty, housing, care and inequality crisis that eventually reaches the hospital door.

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Scotland Is Not Cossetted – Britain Is Centralised

Scottish voters dislike many things, we are told, because Scotland is apparently a nation of very fine haters. But perhaps what really irritates people here is not the truth, but the smugness with …

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Scottish Currency Group Conference - 2026 - The Final Report

The Currency Plan & Policy Options for Scotland. Final Report from Professor Thibault Laurentjoye.

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Clara Mattei: capitalism is not natural - it’s enforced

YouTube video by Channel 4 News

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SNP have no plan for Scottish independence. But that's not the biggest problem

PEOPLE are asking if the SNP have a plan for independence. No progress has been made towards that objective since the 2014 referendum ...

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It's time to end Scotland's reliance on private-sector consultants

Scotland's parliament has a different look to it after the election. The right has fewer seats than previously

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There is a way to escape the iron cage of all-seeing bond markets

HEAR that flip-flopping sound? That’s the noise a centre-left, social-democratic politician makes when faced with the power of the bond markets.

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The world is unstable – here's how Scotland builds a resilient economy

Resilience has always been a key theme in the Scotonomics newsletter. Over the past three years, we have covered the lack of resilience in our…

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Will the next Scottish government focus on investing in ourselves?

Scotland is 10 days away from the opportunity for a new start, new ideas and a new pro-independence government willing to work with the wider…

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Election 2026: what do the Scottish party manifestos say about the NHS? - Bylines Scotland

Six parties, one NHS crisis – yet their manifestos reveal more shared ground than solutions, with only a few willing to face the hard choices

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The big funding question the next Scottish Government has to address

Sweden, Denmark and Finland are examples of small company funding Scotland could follow

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Considerations on Scotland’s future defence (not) – a response - Bylines Scotland

In a continuation of the debate on Scotland’s defence needs, writer Jim Osborne proposes that new thinking is needed

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Pension funds urged to back Scotland’s economy without risking returns

OVER the last couple of months, the Scottish Currency Group has, in its articles for The National, been exploring the theme of “investing in…

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Community wealth – Scotland needs new ideas from our next MSPs - Bylines Scotland

Scotland’s new MSPs face a crucial choice: embrace community wealth building or risk squandering a transformative economic opportunity

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One month since our wholesale bond paper - update | Scotonomics

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Get Palantir out of UK public services

The UK has handed Palantir dozens of public contracts, including with the NHS, even as the dangers of empowering a class of big tech oligarchs become clear. Palantir has supplied military technology t...

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Ministers explore triggering break clause in Palantir’s NHS contract

Government is under pressure to eject the controversial American company from NHS England data systems

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Local government pension funds can well afford to invest in the future of our country

In Scotland, we need to invest in ourselves and reduce our reliance on foreign investment

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Episode 371 - You Can't Vote Away Colonialism with Fadhel Kaboub

Economist Fadhel Kaboub explains why the Global South cannot thrive without first achieving structural economic decolonization – and why MMT is essential, but not sufficient, for the task.

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It’s time we fought against the weaponisation of jobs

It’s a political decision to balance budgets on the backs of working families, writes Pavlina Tcherneva

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Local authority pension funds have a big part to play in community wealth building

IN a series of articles published in The National on January 19 and February 2 and 16, the Scottish Currency Group (SCG) has argued that in Scotland…

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