A lump of coal for sorry Sarwar as Scottish Labour slump to FOURTH place in YouGov subsample of Yuletide wonder

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"Totally at odds with European values": should Israel's potential new apartheid death penalty law lead to a belated Eurovision expulsion?

Scot Goes Pop: The Final Fundraiser is underway (you can read more about why I anticipate it being the final one HERE) and it's already pretty close to halfway to its target figure of £1700.  A million thanks to everyone who has donated so far.  Card donations can be made at the GoFundMe page HERE, or if you prefer to cut out the middle-man, direct PayPal donations can be made to my PayPal email address, which is:   jkellysta@yahoo.co.uk

BBC Sports Personality of the Year and the "invisibling of Scotland"

Scott McTominay, in spite of his stellar year, was inexplicably excluded from the shortlist for BBC Sports Personality of the Year.  Meanwhile the Team of the Year award had a shortlist of three, of which farcically two were teams called "England" - and this in a year when Scotland had won the Men's World Curling Championship. The BBC's use of the annual awards ceremony to push the ideology of Greater England nationalism is not exactly subtle.  In the video below, I make a modest proposal for reform of the shortlisting procedure that would guarantee fair Scottish representation - but that of course is not an outcome the BBC are likely to regard as remotely desirable.

Scot Goes Pop: The Final Fundraiser is underway (you can read more about why I anticipate it being the final one HERE) and it's already pretty close to halfway to its target figure of £1700.  A million thanks to everyone who has donated so far.  Card donations can be made at the GoFundMe page HERE, or if you prefer to cut out the middle-man, direct PayPal donations can be made to my PayPal email address, which is:   jkellysta@yahoo.co.uk

DESPAIR for Farage in Wales as Plaid Cymru stretch their Senedd lead in stunning YouGov poll

Scot Goes Pop: The Final Fundraiser is underway (you can read more about why I anticipate it being the final one HERE) and it's already pretty close to halfway to its target figure of £1700.  A million thanks to everyone who has donated so far.  Card donations can be made at the GoFundMe page HERE, or if you prefer to cut out the middle-man, direct PayPal donations can be made to my PayPal email address, which is:   jkellysta@yahoo.co.uk

And the Christmas bells that ring there are the clanging chimes of doom, WELL TONIGHT THANK GOD IT'S THEM INSTEAD OF STEW

Stew on Twitter: "People voting SNP for independence." pic.twitter.com/Y8U4XQ2SWA

— Wings Over Scotland (@WingsScotland) December 17, 2025

OK, Stew, now do people voting Reform UK "for independence".

Then do bloggers telling independence supporters that voting for a far-right unionist party will somehow get them what they want. 

Then do your trademark "to *win* independence, we must first *kill* independence" spiel.

I'd imagine the video you're looking for will be something along the lines of...

SNP are THIRTY percentage points ahead of Labour in fabulously festive Scottish subsample from YouGov

Scot Goes Pop: The Final Fundraiser is underway (you can read more about why I anticipate it being the final one HERE) and it's already pretty close to halfway to its target figure of £1700.  A million thanks to everyone who has donated so far.  Card donations can be made at the GoFundMe page HERE, or if you prefer to cut out the middle-man, direct PayPal donations can be made to my PayPal email address, which is:   jkellysta@yahoo.co.uk

Stew, hear our plea: "REVEREND CAMPBELL, THINK AGAIN"

As Eurovision winner Nemo returns the trophy, a reply to a supporter of Israel's inclusion in the contest

I was a delegate yesterday at the SNP National Council in Dundee.  Regular readers may remember that when I was a delegate at the special SNP constitutional conference in March, I asked for advice about what I could safely say on the blog about that event, and the answer was "pretty much nothing, apart from the fact that it happened and you were there".  I'm fairly sure the same principle applies to the National Council because it appeared to be a private session throughout.  So a photo of me posing in highly dignified fashion outside the venue with my delegate card will have to suffice.

As there isn't much I can say about the day in Dundee, today's video commentary instead returns to the subject of Eurovision, and the EBU's shameful failure to remove Israel from next year's contest.  My previous video on Tuesday about the subject attracted far more views than I expected.  In fact it was my most-viewed video so far by a long distance, and also received almost 300 comments - including, inevitably, some from pro-Israel apologists containing the familiar misdirection and misinformation.  In the new video I respond to one of those comments in particular.

Scot Goes Pop: The Final Fundraiser is underway (you can read more about why I anticipate it being the final one HERE) and it's already pretty close to halfway to its target figure of £1700.  A million thanks to everyone who has donated so far.  Card donations can be made at the GoFundMe page HERE, or if you prefer to cut out the middle-man, direct PayPal donations can be made to my PayPal email address, which is:   jkellysta@yahoo.co.uk

Pro-independence parties on course for their BIGGEST EVER majority of seats in the Holyrood election, says CHRISTMAS CRACKER of a poll from "gold standard" firm Ipsos

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Ipsos poll puts support for independence at 52% - and says it will go higher if Farage is PM

Should Scotland be an independent country?  (Ipsos / STV)

Yes 52%

No 48%

I have an analysis piece about this poll at The National, which you can read HERE.  I'm also going to try to make a video about the poll later on - apart from the independence numbers, there are voting intention numbers for Holyrood, net ratings for party leaders, and a question about whether voters will be more likely to back independence if Reform win the general election.