Blog: The real post Brexit options – lecture by Sir Ivan Rogers, May 2018
The full text of Sir Ivan Rogers’ lecture on the real post-Brexit options, given at the University of Glasgow on 23 May 2018.
Blog: Kicking the bucket down the road to Norway — EEA is back
Many months after it was ruled out by the government, membership of the European Economic Area (the ‘Norway option’) is being mooted once again. Jim Gallagher writes that over time continued economic but not political union may become broadly acceptable to British public opinion.
Blog: Single minded? The Child Poverty (Scotland) Act and lone parent households
This guest blog from John H. McKendrick welcomes the Poverty and Inequality Commission’s advice on reducing child poverty and reflects on parts that are specifically relevant to single parent families.
News: £2 million for Children’s Neighbourhoods Scotland
Policy Scotland is delighted that Children’s Neighbourhoods Scotland features strongly in the Scottish Government’s Child Poverty Delivery Plan.
Principal warns of Brexit cliff-edge
In a joint event between Policy Scotland and the Stevenson Trust, the Principal of the University of Glasgow Professor Anton Muscatelli gave a major speech on the economic consequences of Brexit last night – which set out the “stark, catastrophic and unavoidable” economic reality of a ‘Cliff-Edge Brexit’, urged the UK Government to take a…
News digest: Inequality, Brexit and dangerous dogs
Unsurprisingly, Brexit has dominated the news again this week as the legal challenge in the Supreme Court proceedings was heard, with the claimants arguing that a failure to consult Parliament on the triggering of Article 50 would see the 1972 European Communities Act – which prepared the way for the UK to join the EEC…
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Working with Holyrood
By Professor Ken Gibb, Director of Policy Scotland The clue is in the name – Policy Scotland naturally aspires to bring academics and policymakers, including legislators and ministers together. We want to know what they are interested in and we also want to let them know about important and high quality policy-related research and evidence…
November 25 News Digest
The Autumn Statement made by the Chancellor has been the main focus of UK politics this week – drawing ire from opposition parties as revealing a “Brexit bombshell” of slower economic growth, higher borrowing and higher debt – but with a series of interesting announcements impacting on Scotland. Claiming to be putting the UK Government’s focus…
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I, Daniel Blake ‘an accurate representation of austerity Britain’
By Dr Margaret Craig, GP in Possilpark and Springburn, Glasgow – consulted by scriptwriter, Paul Laverty, during the development of ‘I, Daniel Blake’ Critics of ‘I, Daniel Blake’, the latest film of Ken Loach and Paul Laverty, have attempted to dismiss it as unrealistic. If only it were. Let me tell you about one of…
After the Event: Josef Konvitz – Brexit and Freedom of Movement
Text of a lecture given by Josef Konvitz at University of Glasgow as part of the Policy Scotland Lecture Series 2016-17 on November 7th 2016. There are many paradoxes about BREXIT. The advocates of BREXIT attacked the EU and especially the Eurozone for failure to remedy the causes of crises in time, and then…