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Ray Perman

@HubrisTheBook

Author, "The Rise and Fall of the City of Money", "Hubris: How HBOS wrecked Britain's best bank" and "The Man Who Gave Away His Island." Former journalist.

Edinburgh Katılım Eylül 2012
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Ray Perman@HubrisTheBook·
Looking forward to Old Edinburgh Club 7.30 pm talking about James Hutton: Geologist - a modest genius who revolutionised how we think about Earth. Paperback out soon so there are hardbacks at handsome discount for next few talks rayperman.com/james-hutton-t…
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Anton Muscatelli
Anton Muscatelli@AntonMuscatelli·
@KeithMa95432918 @heraldscotland A ‘hard rewiring’ of LAs would take time and would be a distraction. Of course there’s nothing to stop LAs working closer together within regional structures.
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Anton Muscatelli@AntonMuscatelli·
My op-ed in today’s ⁦⁦@heraldscotland⁩ setting out why there needs to be greater cross-U.K. and intra-Scotland collaboration to boost regional economic development. “Greater devolution and cross-UK partnerships vital for Scotland’s prosperity” heraldscotland.com/politics/holyr…
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Fay Young
Fay Young@fay_young·
UK Budget 2025? Get real. The world has changed On Sceptical Scot John McLaren laments the disappointment of the UK Budget “doing nothing when so much needed to be done” Who benefits from Starmer’s risk aversion to urgently needed reform? sceptical.scot/2025/12/uk-bud…
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Ray Perman@HubrisTheBook·
Citizens Panels on funding higher education in Scotland, Carnegie Trust initiative, awaited with interest. “…a significant development in testing public opinion and attitudes regarding higher education funding in Scotland and potential options for the future.”
Anton Muscatelli@AntonMuscatelli

My op-ed in the Times today about the worrying finances of Scotland’s Colleges and Universities. Today as a @RoyalSocEd Royal Society of Edinburgh we published a summary report on our conference on tertiary education funding. You can find it here 👇 lnkd.in/dyhyMhum

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Steve Rosenberg@BBCSteveR·
One Russian paper today reports that “Half of all clothes and shoe shops in Russia have shut down….[due to] drop in incomes & slowing economic growth.” Another wonders whether Russia is suffering from “economic stagnation or technical recession.” #ReadingRussia
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Fay Young@fay_young·
A tribute I never expected to write. David Gow, a dear friend, mentor and co-founder of Sceptical Scot has died far too soon. There will be many more tributes to come sceptical.scot/2025/11/david-…
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James Mitchell
James Mitchell@ProfJMitchell·
David Gow obituary | The Guardian | The Guardian David’s personality, intellect, skills made him brilliant in his vocation as a journalist. He never really retired. Sceptical Scot, run with estimable ⁦@fay_young⁩ became an important platform. theguardian.com/media/2025/nov…
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@davidhumeinst A very generous tribute to a truly remarkable man. He will be missed for his work with DHI, the RSE and as co-editor of the current affairs blog Sceptical.Scot
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David Hume Institute
David Hume Institute@davidhumeinst·
It is with great sadness that we mourn the passing of David Hume Institute trustee, David Gow. Our thoughts are with his wife Gayle and their family at this sad time.
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Ray Perman@HubrisTheBook·
@dhlexpressuk second missed delivery, different excuse this time: address wrong – except that it isn’t. Just type it into Google maps, every other company seems to find us easily enough. Shocking service
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Ray Perman@HubrisTheBook·
@dhlexpressuk failed to make my delivery today claiming no-one was at home. A straight lie: I’ve taken a day off to be here all day and @Tesco managed to find us in
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@AntonMuscatelli It’s great and a shock to learn that all the PM’s messages are genuine!
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bookish_cats_aye@oculusaye·
@HubrisTheBook A harsh review. Albeit surprised by the musical elements; not enamoured by the profusion of profanities, they did add a Dennis Potteresque surreality that made light work of a heavy topic. Perhaps you should write a Faustian horror play featuring RBS's West Register and GRG?
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Ray Perman@HubrisTheBook·
#MakeItHappen Camping it up with poor music and even worse jokes, Iames Graham has thrown away a story which was a genuine tragedy – for thousands of people who lost their jobs, for hundreds of thousands who lost their life savings… sceptical.scot/2025/08/make-i…
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