A journalist should probably know this stuff. He certainly shouldn’t be spreading misinformation.

The most serious failure of the SNP’s latest independence paper is that it completely ducks the question of how an independent Scotland would get its public finances onto a sustainable footing.

Alf Young on Full Fiscal Arithmetic, in today’s Sunday Times.

“So the fiscal transfer of £12.9 billion in 2023-24 was really the best case (but wholly implausible) scenario for the size of the hole full fiscal autonomy would have created in the Scottish Government’s budget.”

The UK Government should take seriously the Scottish Government’s request for full fiscal autonomy, and ask it to answer the following questions.

Start reading.

Alex Massie, in today’s Sunday Times.

As the salience of independence as an issue has declined, the SNP has enjoyed a bounce in the polls. This is not a coincidence. Independence as an abstract and distant concept is much more popular than the painful details.

Insightful letter, published by @PrivateEyeNews Cut out and keep for an aide-memoire on how to skewer one of Scottish nationalism’s favourite myths.

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