Eddie Barnes, Author at Our Scottish Future https://ourscottishfuture.org/author/eddie-barnes/ The positive and progressive case for Scotland’s place in the Union Thu, 30 May 2024 09:55:39 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://ourscottishfuture.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/cropped-87851772_135948534617835_7452483147276484608_o-32x32.png Eddie Barnes, Author at Our Scottish Future https://ourscottishfuture.org/author/eddie-barnes/ 32 32 188273756 Reality and Delivery: Achieving Net Zero in Scotland’s Homes https://ourscottishfuture.org/reality-and-delivery-achieving-net-zero-in-scotlands-homes/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=reality-and-delivery-achieving-net-zero-in-scotlands-homes Thu, 30 May 2024 09:53:19 +0000 https://ourscottishfuture.org/?p=7430 To mee our ambition to hit net zero by 2045, Scotland needs a plan. The task of decarbonising home heating is especially difficult. Our new paper proposes the creation of UK-Scottish Govt Project Delivery Taskforce to do so.

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]]> 7430 Slow Scottish Growth is The Elephant in The Room https://ourscottishfuture.org/slow-scottish-growth-is-the-elephant-in-the-room/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=slow-scottish-growth-is-the-elephant-in-the-room Tue, 31 May 2022 14:45:50 +0000 https://ourscottishfuture.org/?p=4909 Today's resource spending review announcement by Finance Secretary Kate Forbes confirmed what we already knew. As it stands, Scotland’s public finances are heading for the rocks.

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]]> 4909 The Debate Isn’t About Indyref2, It’s About How To Improve Britain. Will The SNP Join In? https://ourscottishfuture.org/the-debate-isnt-about-indyref2-its-about-how-to-improve-britain-will-the-snp-join-in/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-debate-isnt-about-indyref2-its-about-how-to-improve-britain-will-the-snp-join-in Sat, 19 Mar 2022 08:22:18 +0000 https://ourscottishfuture.org/?p=4745 A poll in yesterday’s Scotsman shows that a large majority of people in Scotland believe discussions about a second independence referendum should stop due to the war in Ukraine.

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]]> 4745 Friendly Fire https://ourscottishfuture.org/friendly-fire/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=friendly-fire Fri, 09 Jul 2021 08:01:40 +0000 https://ourscottishfuture.org/?p=1614 Eddie Barnes | @eddiebarnes23 UK Government Ministers can argue with some force that it is impossible to work with the SNP Government to improve the way the Union works given the Scottish Nationalists have no interest in doing so. But what about working with those calling for change who do want it to have a future?  In […]

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]]> 1614 The Union Is Beginning to Think Through its Future https://ourscottishfuture.org/union-thinking/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=union-thinking Thu, 24 Jun 2021 08:38:50 +0000 https://ourscottishfuture.org/?p=1150 Eddie Barnes | @eddiebarnes23 In the words of the Scottish academic Colin Kidd, academics and thinkers have tended to view the case for the union of the United Kingdom as an ‘intellectual dead-end’. Either the arguments in favour of the UK have been taken as so self-evident that nobody has felt it necessary to set them […]

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]]> 1150 Why Boris Johnson needs to learn from the EU’s mistakes to bring the UK back together https://ourscottishfuture.org/boris-johnson-needs-to-learn-from-the-eus-mistakes/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=boris-johnson-needs-to-learn-from-the-eus-mistakes Fri, 19 Feb 2021 10:02:26 +0000 https://ourscottishfuture.org/?p=969 Eddie Barnes | @eddiebarnes23 Not a vote has yet been cast in the Scottish Parliament elections, scheduled for May 5th. So confident that a nationalist majority is already in the bag, however, the pro-independence campaign is already planning life after victory. An 11-point plan has been published on how to take forward a referendum. We […]

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