SCOT goes POP!

On a number of occasions I've made the point that Britain is, at best, a semi-democracy, due to the House of Lords being unelected. Som...

The SNP's Angus MacNeil and Labour's George Foulkes found some rare common ground a few days ago in condemning the Queen's '...

Question : If you were an American libertarian blogger who had spent almost every waking moment over the last decade advancing the fantastic...

Ten years ago, the results of the Northern Ireland census were greeted with a not inconsiderable amount of unionist gloating. All the expec...

A couple of years ago, I did a brief round-up of the more unusual search engine queries that had led unsuspecting surfers to this blog. I ...

We don't have a clue about his or her personality, talents or intelligence, but we're absolutely certain that he/she will be just th...

Leaving aside the obvious jibe that 'Open Unionism' is a contradiction in terms, my eye was caught by this article of the 'anyo...

Having got into the swing of responding to consultations earlier in the year, I thought I'd have another go with Labour MSP Rhoda Grant...

The Tories' billionaire puppet-master Lord Ashcroft recently conducted a UK-wide mega-poll of Westminster voting intention, with a sampl...

I've just found myself writing a rather impatient email reply to someone whose heart is in the right place, but who I think is lashing o...