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Professor Lindsay Paterson, University of Edinburgh
If policy is to be based on evidence, then the evidence has to be as independent of ideological points of view as is possible. MBM Scottish policy analysis has...
2nd May 2023
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Francis Wheen, Journalist and broadcaster
This is such important work. Rigorous, detailed, evidence-based analysis is desperately needed as an antidote to toxic shouting-down and vacuous sloganeering on Twitter. The hardline shouters-down will shut their...
2nd May 2023
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Simon Fanshawe, Writer, broadcaster and co-founder of Stonewall
Vital research to cut through the myths and establish the facts
2nd May 2023
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Liam Kerr MSP, Scottish Conservatives
MBM were very helpful to MSPs during a number of debates in the last parliament. There’s never any shortage of research, analysis and material for MSPs to go through...
2nd May 2023
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Jenny Marra, former MSP, Scottish Labour
The most intelligent and robust analysis of the Hate Crime Bill and its impact on women’s rights came from MBM
2nd May 2023
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Johann Lamont, former MSP and leader, Scottish Labour
Thoughtful, respectful, rational, compassionate and informative. So important when others demand ‘no debate’. I cannot overstate my respect for and awareness of the importance of this voluntary commitment to...
2nd May 2023
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Joanna Cherry MP QC, Scottish National Party
MBM’s forensic analysis is an antidote to the no debate culture, and their work a major contribution to the debate about an area of human rights which has become...
2nd May 2023
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Chris Deerin, Director, Reform Scotland
A formidable collective of female policy analysts
2nd May 2023
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Stephen Daisley, The Spectator
A policy analysis outfit whose principals boast extensive scholarship and years of experience inside the civil service
2nd May 2023