Archive
Everything published on the original Chokkablog between 2010 and 2022, rehosted here with its original dates. The writing stands as it was — the figures in it are of their time.
2022
- Scotland's Renewable Energy Statistics
- Ofgem Price Caps and Scotland
- GERS 2022 - Here we go again
- Why Not Scotland?
- We Need to Talk About Scotland
- Scotland's NI Contributions and the State Pension
- Independence by Gaslight: Pensions
2021
- What devolution of DWP functions tells us about the likely costs of Independence
- GERS 2021 - So What?
- Richard Murphy on GERS: The Perpetually Baffled Man
- Sturgeon on Andrew Marr, 25/04/21
- Sophist's Choice: how Sturgeon dodges questions on the economics of separation
- Analysing Sturgeon's STV Interview
- Mind The Gap: Critiquing the FT's Fiscal Gap Analysis
- What's £7 billion between friends?
2020
- In Other News
- Apples and Pears: GERS
- Fact Checking a Fact Check
- Kate Forbes' Grievance, Dissected
- Deficits, Deficit Gaps and Fiscal Transfers
- Pooling and Sharing: The English Regions
2019
- What GERS can and cannot tell us
- How Much of Scotland's Tax Revenue Does Westminster Keep?
- Dissecting a Deception
- The SNP: Living in the Past
- Andrew Wilson on Andrew Neil's Sturgeon Interview
- Robert Burns: An Immortal Memory
2018
- Responding to Commonweal
- In other news ...
- Growth Commission: A Simple Mistake
- Growth Commission: Cohort Selection
- Andrew Wilson's Doublethink Masterclass
- Kate Forbes SNP MSP Question Time Claim
- There Is No Growth Assumption
- Growth Commission - Embracing Austerity
- Growth Commission Claims
- SNP Growth Commission's GDP Growth Rate Claims
- Sustainable Growth Commission: Jam Tomorrow, Gruel Today
- Bonds of Union: Part I
- The SNP: Making the Case for Union
- The SNP's Conversion
- The UK Single Market
- The Act of Union 1707: An Economic Union
- Having Reservations
- The Act of Union 1707: Religion
2017
- EU Withdrawal: Irritable Bill Syndrome
- Where Are You From?
- These Islands
- Economic facts have become SNP's enemy
- Scotland's Deficit Figures Show that the UK Works
- Another Example of Murphy's Flaw
- Professor Murphy and Deckchairs
- GERS: An Inconvenient Truth
- GERS 2016-17: A Journey in Graphs
- Latest GERS Figures: A Quick Summary
- The Big Lie About Scotland's Oil
- Barnett Formula: Keeping it Simple
- Bikes, Maths and The Big Pig
- Calling Time on the Barnett Formula
- How Brexit Affected SNP GE Vote Share
- The Emotional Case for Union: Articulating an Implicit Moral Contract
- General Election 2017: The Scottish Constituencies
- Scottish Education: A Generation, Failed
- Scottish Education: SNP Neglect or Tory Austerity?
- Judging the SNP on Their Education Record
- Richard Murphy: The Outlier
- Joan McAlpine, GERS Denier
- The SNP's Indyref2 Mandate
- Richard Murphy, GERS Denier
- Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right
- Nicola Sturgeon's Right: Scotland's Great Deal
- Anyone for Tennis?
2016
- Impact of UK Austerity on Scotland's 2017-18 Budget
- Spinning the Scottish Budget: Part III
- Spinning the Scottish Budget: Part II
- Spinning the Scottish Budget
- Memetic Hogwash
- Changing The Rules of The Game
- Defacing the Facts: SNP MP Paul Monaghan
- Data Errors in Beyond GERS
- Beyond GERS - Beyond Belief
- Does Scotland Simply Spend Too Much?
- The £9bn Fiscal Transfer vs The £15bn GERS Deficit
- Crazy Horses
- Salmond Spins Again
- Nationalist Reflections
- Listing Foreign Worker Numbers
- Scotland, Scotland, Independence, Scotland
- Response to Prof Hughes Hallett Letter to the FT
- GERS - Good News for Scotland
- GERS: A Story Told Through Graphs
- Wings' Idiot's Guide for GERS Deniers
- Response to Herald Letter from a GERS denier
- GERS Deniers
- Unknown Region Exports & Hidden GDP
- The Certainty of Independence
- Two Types of People
- Brexit and the case for Scottish independence
- Unity, Solidarity & Harmony: Why I'll be Voting Remain
- Immigration and the EU Referendum
- The Blame Game
- Thoughts on the EU Referendum
- An Open Letter to Nicola Sturgeon
- Business for Scotland: Where are They Now?
- The SNP: Running to Stand Still
- It's Time For An Apology
- Clowns Left, Jokers Right
- The Price of Independence
- Why we should be glad we voted No
- GERS 2014-15: Reasons to be Cheerful
- Playing the Long Game
- Unreasonable Negotiation
- Barnett Fair?
- What's £8bn Between Friends?
- SRIT: Scottish Labour's Proposal
- Mind the Gap
- Marr Fails To Grill Sturgeon
- Thinking About the Living Wage
2015
- Neuro-Linguistic Programming for the Masses
- SRIT: A Blunt But Undeniably Progressive Tax
- Swinney: Confused or Aiming to Confuse?
- Why Our Kids Should Hate Us: Debt and Taxes
- Joan McAlpine in the Daily Record
- The Masters of Spin
- Instinctive Leadership: We Need To Talk About Jeremy
- FFA For Dummies Methodology
- The Power of Persistence
- Wee Blue Book of Errors Part II: Pensions
- Wings and His Wee Blue Book of Errors
- Joan McAlpine and Scotland's Missing Whisky Taxes
- The Fabulously Absolute SNP
- Electoral Commission Response
- Tugging at Threads
- The Tax Burden
- Who's Really Against Austerity?
- All You Need Is Hate
- Chokkablog Videos
- Let's Talk About Growth
- Stop Getting GERS Wrong
- Circles Within Circles
- Sowing the Seeds
- With Great Fiscal Power Comes Great Fiscal Responsibility
- George Kerevan, my new SNP MP
- It Doesn't Matter
- Guest Blog: Neil Lovatt on N56
- The Great Escape
- Full Fiscal Autonomy in 700 Words
- Oil Price and Scottish Tax Generation
- Full Fiscal Autonomy for Dummies
- Explaining the £7.6bn "FFA Black-Hole"
- A Simple Summary of Scotland's Economy
- How Scotland's Economy Contributes to the UK
- SNP/Tory Coalition - Think It Through
- Simple GERS summary
- Analysis of 2013-14 GERS
- Why Do I Care?
- Wings Over Scotland: An Apology
- Simplify, Exaggerate and Carry on Regardless
- Yes or No: Makes no Difference
- Business for Scotland & Deutsche Bank Report
- Scotland's Economy
- Time for SOBR Reflection
- Let it go
2014
- Business for Scotland and the SNP
- Scottish Government Oil Revenue Forecasts
- Oil & Gas: Will We Ever Learn?
- Alex Salmond's Shameless £8bn Lie
- Smith Commission and Corporation Tax
- BBC Bias and the Independence Referendum
- Smith Commission: A Simple Summary
- Business for Scotland & Smith Commission part II
- "Business for Scotland" Smith Commission Submission
- Thoughts on The Smith Commission
- The Sovereign Will of the Scottish People
- Pathetic Bigots
- You Read it Here First
- It's Not About The Numbers
- The Business View on Independence
- Guest Blog: Bank Bailout Myths
- Viewpoint: Scottish Referendum
- The Wee Blue Book (of Lies)
- £8.3bn Better off?
- Have we paid £8bn more in than we've had out?
- Currency Union and Economic Asymmetry
- Michelle Thomson: A Response
- Response to "Independence and the Economy - The Facts"
- The Case in Summary
- Dunleavy and the Costs of Independence
- Who Do "Business for Scotland" Represent?
- The McCrone Report
- Oil & Gas (Part II): The Oil Fund
- Scottish Independence: Pros & Cons
- Lies, Damn Lies & Cost Estimates
- The Positive case for No
- Oil & Gas (Part I): For Richer, For Poorer
- Who can we Trust?
- Who Says Scotland's too Small to be Independent?
- Look at our GDP/Capita; Look at Ireland
- We should decide who Governs Us.
- Independence & Scotland's Trade with rUK
- Independent Scotland and the EU
- The Referendum Debate: my Bona Fides
- Praise for Chokkablog
2013
2011
- Truth, Beauty, Happiness, Shareholder Value
- The Apprentice
- Bikes, Businesses and Gearing
- If You Don't Ask ....
- Training Entrepreneurs?
- Be lucky
- Playing the Long Game
- When Profit isn't Profit
- What Motivates Us: A Deeply Personal Perspective
- Loneliness and Vanity
- Negotiations and the Sheer Force of Will
- An Amazing Balancing Act
- Beware the Time Thieves
- The Weakest Link
- Experiencing Narrative Backwards
2010
- Whither Catalogues; Catalogues Wither?
- Boots the Brand vs Ignorant Consumers
- How Google has Blinded Itself
- Google’s latest data give-away
- It's all about the Talent
- Exploding the Multi-Channel Myth ...
- Voucher Code Affiliates
- My Business Ramblings Blog ...