Here's a chance to meet the hitherto unknown British correspondent of The economist and author of the article.
Her name is Rosie Blau. She's a mum, a former Booker Prize judge, (she read 138 books for the judging), she used to be literature editor at the FT, she's a graduate of both Cambridge and Harvard, she's worked as a columnist, arts and news editor, above all else she appears to be a terribly, jolly nice gel.
"Scotland seems to be err broadly fine"
Rosie has been interviewed by Joel Budd, the Britain editor at The Economist. The interview deserves a couple of plays to get those lovely coy moments from Rosie that reveal her true ignorance about Scotland. The usual clichés are trotted out. The Oil is running out. Renewable energy is no future because we'd need to subsidize it. Our Banks are shot, Small countries are in danger. Oh and according to Rosie, Nationalists go about saying, "We've got oil, we're going to be so rich, we're going to have this oil wealth for ourselves."
There is the rather off the cuff concession from Rosie that, "Oil and Gas, would have at one point certainly funded an Independent Scotland." That deserves a bit more investigation.
Rosie's original article drew over 2000 comments on the Economist. This is the first time the author has been identified. It struck me as odd that the author wasn't named. Rosie's background is in the arts and literature, not Economics. I feel her piece is clichéd and trots out the usual lazy stereotypes when London deigns to comment on Scotland.
I've removed the paragraph which contained the economist office number. It's freely available online. If anyone was offended, particularly those poor souls in the Unionist parties, then please accept my utmost apologies, if I caused you to weep for humanity.
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