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A BLUEPRINT for economic growth after a Scottish breakaway has faced criticism for “relying on foreign investment” and keeping down taxes for the rich.
In its long-awaited report today, the SNP-commissioned “sustainable growth commission” insisted Scotland “can lift the growth performance … to take living standards to equal the best small countries in the world over a generation.”
But Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard accused Nicola Sturgeon of ignoring “the sovereign will of the Scottish people.”
The future does not have to be climate chaos and social breakdown. MARC VANDEPITTE looks at the alternatives offered by the Global Justice Report, co-authored by Thomas Piketty
On the release of her memoir that reveals everything except politics, Sturgeon’s endless media coverage has focused on her panic attacks, sexuality and personal tragedies while ignoring her government’s many failures, writes PAULINE BRYAN