William Thomson
@williameconomist.bsky.social
Political Economist and Scottish Republican. Founder of Scotonomics. www.scotonomics.scot. MSc Green Economy. M.Econ Economics of Sustainability. A troublemaker spreading radical ideas.
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I really loved this conversation with @georgemonbiot.bsky.social - I've thought about it lots ever since.
Hope you enjoy it too!
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Hope you enjoy it too!
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How To Platform Socialist Ideas Through Billionaire Owned Channels | George Monbiot | Zack Polanski
YouTube video by Bold Politics with Zack Polanski
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November 22, 2025 at 10:08 AM
I really loved this conversation with @georgemonbiot.bsky.social - I've thought about it lots ever since.
Hope you enjoy it too!
youtu.be/3xx6lNFx8tI?...
Hope you enjoy it too!
youtu.be/3xx6lNFx8tI?...
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November 19, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Excited to be soft-launching a new online essay series for @the-breakdown.bsky.social - (re)reading radical thinkers for the climate crisis.
First up is Casey A. Williams on Stuart Hall and his analytical power for climate strategy today.
www.break-down.org/reading-stua...
First up is Casey A. Williams on Stuart Hall and his analytical power for climate strategy today.
www.break-down.org/reading-stua...
Reading Stuart Hall for the Climate Crisis
Stuart Hall’s politics of culture offers the left a blueprint for confronting the climate crisis.
www.break-down.org
November 13, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Excited to be soft-launching a new online essay series for @the-breakdown.bsky.social - (re)reading radical thinkers for the climate crisis.
First up is Casey A. Williams on Stuart Hall and his analytical power for climate strategy today.
www.break-down.org/reading-stua...
First up is Casey A. Williams on Stuart Hall and his analytical power for climate strategy today.
www.break-down.org/reading-stua...
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Never look directly at The Sun! 🔥
Another billionaire owned newspaper scaremongering the public.
People want hope and they want change, and Greens are the ones offering it. 💚📈
Another billionaire owned newspaper scaremongering the public.
People want hope and they want change, and Greens are the ones offering it. 💚📈
November 13, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Never look directly at The Sun! 🔥
Another billionaire owned newspaper scaremongering the public.
People want hope and they want change, and Greens are the ones offering it. 💚📈
Another billionaire owned newspaper scaremongering the public.
People want hope and they want change, and Greens are the ones offering it. 💚📈
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The Scottish Greens have surpassed 9000 members as support for the party is on track to reach a record high
Scottish Greens see surge in support as party 'skyrockets' to 9000 members
www.thenational.scot
November 12, 2025 at 5:37 PM
The Scottish Greens have surpassed 9000 members as support for the party is on track to reach a record high
I don't quite go this far. But that article, which is still live, is a high watermark for propaganda/misinformation.
Yet another false promise of “change” at BBC “Scotland” - where it will be “business as usual”.
The BBC is utterly discredited and beyond redemption.
The BBC is utterly discredited and beyond redemption.
October 26, 2025 at 8:32 AM
I don't quite go this far. But that article, which is still live, is a high watermark for propaganda/misinformation.
Private sector debt in Scotland
Private sector debt in Scotland - the real ticking time bomb You can be sure of one thing. If politicians and mainstream economists are not talking about something, it must be important. We live in an era of misdirection. Ample headlines and column inches are…
Private sector debt in Scotland - the real ticking time bomb You can be sure of one thing. If politicians and mainstream economists are not talking about something, it must be important. We live in an era of misdirection. Ample headlines and column inches are…
Private sector debt in Scotland
Private sector debt in Scotland - the real ticking time bomb You can be sure of one thing. If politicians and mainstream economists are not talking about something, it must be important. We live in an era of misdirection. Ample headlines and column inches are dedicated to the national debt. Nothing is written about private sector debt. Thankfully, both Professor Richard Murphy…
scotonomics.org
October 23, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Private sector debt in Scotland
Private sector debt in Scotland - the real ticking time bomb You can be sure of one thing. If politicians and mainstream economists are not talking about something, it must be important. We live in an era of misdirection. Ample headlines and column inches are…
Private sector debt in Scotland - the real ticking time bomb You can be sure of one thing. If politicians and mainstream economists are not talking about something, it must be important. We live in an era of misdirection. Ample headlines and column inches are…
The EU’s SGP in an independent Scotland
Adopting the EU's SGP in an independent Scotland will undermine economic resilience. Discussion paper: Undermining Economic Resilience - The Economic Impact of Adopting the European Union’s Stability and Growth Pact in an Independent Scotland. Dr Dirk Ehnts…
Adopting the EU's SGP in an independent Scotland will undermine economic resilience. Discussion paper: Undermining Economic Resilience - The Economic Impact of Adopting the European Union’s Stability and Growth Pact in an Independent Scotland. Dr Dirk Ehnts…
The EU’s SGP in an independent Scotland
Adopting the EU's SGP in an independent Scotland will undermine economic resilience. Discussion paper: Undermining Economic Resilience - The Economic Impact of Adopting the European Union’s Stability and Growth Pact in an Independent Scotland. Dr Dirk Ehnts and William Thomson. The paper is written with a specific period in mind: the decade after a vote for Scotland to become independent. We believe this transition period has been overlooked in Scottish government papers, including the most recent ‘A fresh start with independence’, which was published in October 2025, a month after this paper was released.
scotonomics.org
October 16, 2025 at 3:50 PM
The EU’s SGP in an independent Scotland
Adopting the EU's SGP in an independent Scotland will undermine economic resilience. Discussion paper: Undermining Economic Resilience - The Economic Impact of Adopting the European Union’s Stability and Growth Pact in an Independent Scotland. Dr Dirk Ehnts…
Adopting the EU's SGP in an independent Scotland will undermine economic resilience. Discussion paper: Undermining Economic Resilience - The Economic Impact of Adopting the European Union’s Stability and Growth Pact in an Independent Scotland. Dr Dirk Ehnts…
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'The people who make our lives more difficult arrive in private jets, not dinghies.'
October 14, 2025 at 7:00 AM
'The people who make our lives more difficult arrive in private jets, not dinghies.'
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"Whether you agree with Zack Polanski or not it is important to have a different view articulated as effectively as some of the radical right have been doing.
"Potentially it helps rebalance the scales a little bit in everyday media discourse"
www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/zack...
"Potentially it helps rebalance the scales a little bit in everyday media discourse"
www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/zack...
Zack Polanski: Can the Green Party leader ‘rebalance the scales’ of UK politics? | The News Agents
In little more than a month of leadership, Zack Polanski has grown the party’s membership and become a powerful figure on the left-wing of UK politics. Can he, and the Green Party, take this further…
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October 15, 2025 at 5:45 AM
"Whether you agree with Zack Polanski or not it is important to have a different view articulated as effectively as some of the radical right have been doing.
"Potentially it helps rebalance the scales a little bit in everyday media discourse"
www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/zack...
"Potentially it helps rebalance the scales a little bit in everyday media discourse"
www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/zack...
My newsletter in The National, wondering how 'a fresh start' can be so devoid of new ideas. www.thenational.scot/news/2554002...
I read the new independence white paper – here's what it's missing
AFTER rewatching Zack Polanski’s Green Party political broadcast on the train down to Edinburgh, I marched across North Bridge with a spring in my…
www.thenational.scot
October 13, 2025 at 4:57 PM
My newsletter in The National, wondering how 'a fresh start' can be so devoid of new ideas. www.thenational.scot/news/2554002...
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Want to hear more about what the Green Party is offering?
Watch the full interview with @zackpolanski.bsky.social on our YouTube, or listen wherever you get your pods.
#PodSaveTheUK #Politics #UK #Socialism #YourParty
Watch the full interview with @zackpolanski.bsky.social on our YouTube, or listen wherever you get your pods.
#PodSaveTheUK #Politics #UK #Socialism #YourParty
September 27, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Want to hear more about what the Green Party is offering?
Watch the full interview with @zackpolanski.bsky.social on our YouTube, or listen wherever you get your pods.
#PodSaveTheUK #Politics #UK #Socialism #YourParty
Watch the full interview with @zackpolanski.bsky.social on our YouTube, or listen wherever you get your pods.
#PodSaveTheUK #Politics #UK #Socialism #YourParty
This helps reframe our conversations about 'the bond market' and mythical 'bond vigilantes'. Every pound used to purchase a UK government bond has come from previous UK government deficit spending. 1/6
September 27, 2025 at 11:07 AM
This helps reframe our conversations about 'the bond market' and mythical 'bond vigilantes'. Every pound used to purchase a UK government bond has come from previous UK government deficit spending. 1/6
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"Polanski is adamant that Labour no longer deserves to be thought of as progressive.
"The Labour Party is so dead and gone in terms of being a progressive force. You don’t need to be in the Labour Party: @greenparty.org.uk time is now.”
www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab...
"The Labour Party is so dead and gone in terms of being a progressive force. You don’t need to be in the Labour Party: @greenparty.org.uk time is now.”
www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab...
Labour vs the left
While Keir Starmer focuses on the threat of Reform and the populist right, is his real problem a resurgent progressive politics?
www.newstatesman.com
September 24, 2025 at 7:50 PM
"Polanski is adamant that Labour no longer deserves to be thought of as progressive.
"The Labour Party is so dead and gone in terms of being a progressive force. You don’t need to be in the Labour Party: @greenparty.org.uk time is now.”
www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab...
"The Labour Party is so dead and gone in terms of being a progressive force. You don’t need to be in the Labour Party: @greenparty.org.uk time is now.”
www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab...
LIVE tonight at 8 pm, introducing Scotland's Sectoral Balances.
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September 24, 2025 at 1:28 PM
LIVE tonight at 8 pm, introducing Scotland's Sectoral Balances.
ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UFR7dK0th4
ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UFR7dK0th4
Good summary here.
www.thenational.scot/news/2546714...
www.thenational.scot/news/2546714...
'Austerity' warning if independent Scotland follows EU fiscal rules before joining
AN INDEPENDENT Scotland should not follow the European Union’s (EU) fiscal rules before joining the bloc as it could spark “several rounds of…
www.thenational.scot
September 16, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Good summary here.
www.thenational.scot/news/2546714...
www.thenational.scot/news/2546714...
I chaired a great panel discussing how the #MMT lens can be used to explain and explore the reasons behind the crushing of NHS budgets. www.patreon.com/posts/how-mm... Link to my introductory marks.
September 15, 2025 at 7:26 PM
I chaired a great panel discussing how the #MMT lens can be used to explain and explore the reasons behind the crushing of NHS budgets. www.patreon.com/posts/how-mm... Link to my introductory marks.
Paper available tomorrow! Good summary here.
www.thenational.scot/news/2546714...
www.thenational.scot/news/2546714...
'Austerity' warning if independent Scotland follows EU fiscal rules before joining
AN INDEPENDENT Scotland should not follow the European Union’s (EU) fiscal rules before joining the bloc as it could spark “several rounds of…
www.thenational.scot
September 15, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Paper available tomorrow! Good summary here.
www.thenational.scot/news/2546714...
www.thenational.scot/news/2546714...
The MMT lens for an independent Scotland and Wales
Warren Mosler uses the MMT lens to explain how both Scotland and Wales can enact progressive policies once they are separate from the rest of the United Kingdom In late August 2025, Warren Mosler, the founder of Modern Monetary Theory, delivered a…
Warren Mosler uses the MMT lens to explain how both Scotland and Wales can enact progressive policies once they are separate from the rest of the United Kingdom In late August 2025, Warren Mosler, the founder of Modern Monetary Theory, delivered a…
The MMT lens for an independent Scotland and Wales
Warren Mosler uses the MMT lens to explain how both Scotland and Wales can enact progressive policies once they are separate from the rest of the United Kingdom In late August 2025, Warren Mosler, the founder of Modern Monetary Theory, delivered a landmark presentation in Cardiff. It was the first time he considered how his insights could be used to support the successful economic independence of both Wales and Scotland.
scotonomics.org
September 5, 2025 at 8:58 AM
The MMT lens for an independent Scotland and Wales
Warren Mosler uses the MMT lens to explain how both Scotland and Wales can enact progressive policies once they are separate from the rest of the United Kingdom In late August 2025, Warren Mosler, the founder of Modern Monetary Theory, delivered a…
Warren Mosler uses the MMT lens to explain how both Scotland and Wales can enact progressive policies once they are separate from the rest of the United Kingdom In late August 2025, Warren Mosler, the founder of Modern Monetary Theory, delivered a…
Come along to Britsol on the 12th/13th to hear how #MMT helps you reframe the austerity narrative.
modernmoneylab.org.uk/events/brist...
modernmoneylab.org.uk/events/brist...
modernmoneylab.org.uk
August 24, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Come along to Britsol on the 12th/13th to hear how #MMT helps you reframe the austerity narrative.
modernmoneylab.org.uk/events/brist...
modernmoneylab.org.uk/events/brist...
Sectoral Balances set you on a different path. We will release Scotland's sectoral balances on 15th September. Sign up to receive the report.
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The Economic Impact of Adopting the European Union’s Stability and Growth Pact in an Independent Scotland
Subscribe to receive a copy of the independent report and the macroeconomic model of the Scottish economy on the 15th September.
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August 24, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Sectoral Balances set you on a different path. We will release Scotland's sectoral balances on 15th September. Sign up to receive the report.
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Tonight LIVE at 8 pm. We discuss The Impact of Central Banks on the real economy - me, you, and the jobs we do.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dV5Y...
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Ep 127: The Impact of Central Banks
YouTube video by SCOTONOMICS
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August 20, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Tonight LIVE at 8 pm. We discuss The Impact of Central Banks on the real economy - me, you, and the jobs we do.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dV5Y...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dV5Y...
The most recent Scottish Government prospectus for independence announced its desire to follow the EU's fiscal rules, the "SGP", once Scotland was independent and BEFORE it joined the EU. No one has ever considered the economic impact of that decision until now. Thread. 1/10
August 19, 2025 at 3:02 PM
The most recent Scottish Government prospectus for independence announced its desire to follow the EU's fiscal rules, the "SGP", once Scotland was independent and BEFORE it joined the EU. No one has ever considered the economic impact of that decision until now. Thread. 1/10