AS WHAT APPEARS TO BE the chalice of political death passes to yet another leader, perhaps we need to examine the revitalising potion – or revolutionary poison – it contains. And we should do this not from a partisan position, but as Adam Smith’s impartial spectator. There are lessons here from Scotland for the entire […]
Day: 25 June 2026
Scotland’s data centre reckoning part 5: What Scotland can do right now
THIS SERIES HAS DOCUMENTED four failures: a planning system processing twenty hyperscale applications without cumulative assessment; a cost framework that hides hundreds of pounds per household in grid charges while directing public subsidy to trillion-dollar corporations; a water abstraction regime that allows developers to declare demands bearing no relationship to what their cooling systems will […]