Essays

Essays on Scottish public policy, most recent first. Each links to the full text and a typeset PDF.

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  Generation, Meet Load

  8 June 2026

  Common Weal published Scotland’s energy problem and the most obvious use for its surplus on consecutive days, and recommended against both.

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  The Windless Dark

  7 June 2026

  A dead calm powers no compute. On firm power, long-duration storage, and the concrete nobody will pour.