THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR ECONOMICS – AN EXERCISE IN IDEOLOGY? THIS year’s (so-called) Nobel economics prize has gone to three US-based academics – Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer. Banerjee and Duflo (who are married) work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, while Kremer is a professor at Harvard. They received the £728,000 prize […]

AT SNP conference last weekend the party elected, amidst some tension, a new Women’s Convenor.

NICOLA Sturgeon has branded the latest Brexit deal undemocratic and claimed it "makes a mockery of claims that the UK is in any way a partnership of equals."

In a letter to European Council President Donald Tusk, President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker wrote:

That is the nature of the gamble that the SNP administration has embarked upon. They are wagering Scotland's cause in a bet where the odds may be stacked against them and where, even if the odds were fair or favourable, to win is to lose and to lose is to lose even more.

I have commented already on this morning's published Brexit deal. I omitted to mention that it is likely to also be illegal under this legislation: Read the full article...

I have scanned the changes to Theresa May's Brexit deal that now make up Johnson's deal. There are sixty plus pages of them; many being Read the full article...

ungagged.podbean.com/...down_1.mp3 Available FREE  on iTunes and Podbean As the power mongers… the aristocracy and rich in the UK, and the bureaucrats of the EU come to a deal that will cut freedom of movement, enforce Tory rule for another generation and impoverish millions across the British Isles, we bring you our ode to anarchy… our voices...

16 votes, up to a maximum of 31, you say? If only there was a party with enough MPs to turn that round, eh? The Prime Minister’s new Brexit deal is a catastrophe for Scotland. It would massively disadvantage the country compared to Northern Ireland. Companies would entirely sensibly flock across the Irish Sea to […]

A Brexit deal has been agreed with the EU, Boris Johnson has said.