Author: ikdesign

Scots need no longer accept the grinding ‘norm’ as inevitable. They can choose a proper new start: escape from starved public services, unsustainable private and government debt, homelessness, suppressed enterprise, low wages and an abused

Rather than place our hope in the EU or the UK, Scotland should choose a future in which the socially produced surplus is shared with its producers – and demonstrate to the world what can

I retired from a secure, well-paid job as a lecturer at the University of Leeds and began farming full-time. After 26 years of farming in Fife I am supposed to pretend that our farm business

In his letter published in this week’s Scottish Farmer, Fife farmer and economist, Duncan Pickard, highlights misconceptions in Reading University’s report to the Scottish Land Commission on Land Value Tax, and explains why land rent

Nick Macpherson (now Lord Macpherson) came out as a proponent of the land tax (AGR/LVT) at a Resolution Foundation conference in London in October 2018. But his advocacy of the policy over three decades at

Allowing land speculation is what makes homes unaffordable. It’s a choice. One much favoured by those keen to continue extracting socially produced wealth at the expense of those who do not own sites. For Christ’s

Even with limited devolved tax varying powers Holyrood could add £100bn to Scotland’s GDP by 2030. Sadly, without reform we’ll be lucky to see an increase of £20bn. AGR/LVT please.

peoplesbudget2.web The distortions affecting society and the economy from Wednesday’s Scottish budget are considerable and avoidable. What is the public pricing mechanism that would render budgetary expenditures self-funding, so that the money does not have

Economist Fred Harrison and SLRG propose a better measure than GDP, which is rightly derided on all sides as a poor measuring tool for economic health.