Thursday, July 3, 2025

Was Rachel Reeves weeping for the failure of her political project, or for the shame of knowing it was never worth fighting for in the first place?

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It now appears (although we'll have to wait for people's memoirs to know for sure) that Rachel Reeves' tears at PMQs yesterday m...
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Wednesday, July 2, 2025

Ipsos poll confirms that the end is nigh for Alba

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I didn't get around to giving you the party political voting intentions numbers from the Ipsos poll yesterday, so here they are... Scott...
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Tuesday, July 1, 2025

More analysis of the Ipsos poll showing a pro-independence majority

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Just a quick note to let you know that I have an analysis piece at The National about the new Ipsos poll, which shows Yes in the lead by 52%...
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Ipsos abandon a decades-long tradition of phone polling in Scotland - but continue to show a Yes lead on the independence question

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As you'll remember from a few days ago, there was a GB-wide poll from Ipsos which used a new methodology.  Ipsos announced they were mov...
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Monday, June 30, 2025

A question for Mandy Rhodes: who has killed the most women over the last year, Iran or Israel?

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I saw a furious response on Twitter to a Mandy Rhodes article about the Israeli assault on Iran, and having taken a look I can understand wh...
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Sunday, June 29, 2025

A gentle hint to the non-Sovereignty contingent within Liberate Scotland: the tactic of "slinging a deefie" at any questions about the electoral pact with a far-right nativist party is not going to work for a whole year, and especially not when the mainstream media start asking the questions

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As I understand it, Liberate Scotland view the SNP as an anti-independence party, hence the decision to split the vote on the constituency b...
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Saturday, June 28, 2025

Now we've established that Stew doesn't want Holyrood to have any say on foreign affairs (meaning by definition that he opposes independence), can he clarify whether he agrees with his own retweet that Israel's 1967 invasion and conquest of the Arab town of Bethlehem was "the liberation of Bethlehem"?

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As mentioned in the previous post, my devoted Somerset stalker "Stew" has been continuing to fire off tweets about me over recent ...
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Friday, June 27, 2025

Crossbreak cornucopia as SNP stun rivals with epochal lead in Scottish subsample from Find Out Now

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GB-wide voting intentions (Find Out Now, 25th June 2025): Reform UK 30% (-1) Labour 22% (-1) Conservatives 18% (+2) Liberal Democrats 13% (+...
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Thursday, June 26, 2025

Scot Goes Pop puts Anas Sarwar ON THE SPOT

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Well, sort of.  I had a little cameo last night at the Holyrood Sources podcast recording in Edinburgh where both John Swinney and Anas Sar...
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Astounding YouGov MRP poll puts the SNP within eight seats of overtaking the Tories UK-wide - and with a 26% chance of holding the balance of power

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The title of yesterday's blogpost was 'Using an election to double as an independence referendum is the ONLY way independence can an...
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