Friday, July 14, 2017

Colonel says "Phew"! Huge scare for Ruth as SNP run Tories close in Elgin by-election

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It always looked fairly predictable that the Tories would win yesterday's Elgin North by-election.  They had won the popular vote in the...
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Thursday, July 13, 2017

The Tories begin their Great Attempt to Destroy Devolution

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So it's official - the Tories have not only betrayed the promise that new powers will come to the Scottish Parliament after Brexit, but ...
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Tuesday, July 11, 2017

Relearning the oldest truth : voting Tory doesn't produce results for Scotland

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I've been having my latest technological meltdown, but 24 hours late, here's a quick note to let you know I have a new article on th...
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Friday, July 7, 2017

Tories take a hammering in new YouGov poll

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If the Tories imagined their narrow lead in the GB-wide Survation poll a few days ago was some kind of turning-point, they appear to have be...
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Tuesday, July 4, 2017

Scottish Labour may be dinosaurs, but it wasn't a dead cat bounce

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As you may have seen on social media, there was a post on the LSE politics blog yesterday arguing that the notion of a "Corbyn bounce...
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Monday, July 3, 2017

Live stream

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Just a very quick note to let you know I took part in a live stream on Independence Live earlier today, answering questions on a variety of ...
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Sunday, July 2, 2017

I'm going to make some mild criticisms of an article written by Neal Ascherson (some viewers may find these scenes distressing)

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Just very, very occasionally (maybe once every four months or so) Christopher Silver sends me a passive-aggressive tweet with a "Don...
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No, Jeremy Corbyn would not be Prime Minister right now if the Scottish Tories had failed to make gains

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This post is really just an indulgence of a point of pedantry, but it's been bugging me since the election that people keep saying that ...
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Saturday, July 1, 2017

Davidson seeks solace in titillating photos as Opinium subsample puts SNP 10% ahead

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Opinium have today become only the third pollster to produce a GB-wide poll of voting intentions since the general election.  Given the hamm...
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Thursday, June 29, 2017

And this is why Indyref 2 is not going away...

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As you may have seen, the House of Commons has just voted on an amendment to the Queen's Speech, tabled by Labour MP Chuka Umunna, calli...
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