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6 11, 2023

Protecting the UK’s Golden Goose from rival financial centres

Brexit-Watch, Trade & Economy|

By Catherine McBride – 9 minute read – Our regulators need to allow companies to concentrate on their core business, assess their own risks and employ the staff they believe are most suited to their requirements if we are to compete.

6 11, 2023

Repeatedly disproven OBR forecasts? It’s time to adopt ‘when the facts change’

Brexit-Watch, Trade & Economy|

By Catherine McBride – 5 minute read – The OBR would be well advised to heed Keynes’ advice and change its mind about Brexit now that the facts have changed the credibility of its assumptions.

19 10, 2023

How nationalism rots away our ability to see reason

As We See It, Trade & Economy|

By Brian Monteith – 4 minute read WHAT IS IT about so much of Scottish media news reporting that they have to see everything through the prism of nationalism? Why do so many journalists and commentators lose their analytical and critical faculties in the process? The temptation to present anything that has its origins in [...]

19 09, 2023

DEBANKING UPDATE: The FCA can’t find a problem with the banks’ behaviour: “Well it would, wouldn’t it!”

As We See It, Trade & Economy|

By Brian Monteith – 1 minute read – The FCA has said there is nothing to be concerned about following its initial review of the political debanking scandal - but it's a slam-dunk example of what has become known as an "MRDA" – meaning, 'Mandy Rice-Davies Applies'.

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