Saturday, February 10, 2018

The weasel-worded power grab

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I suspect I'm not alone in finding Michael Settle's gossip-fuelled reporting for the Herald over the last 24 hours deeply unsatisfa...
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Thursday, February 8, 2018

The birthplace of valour, the country of worth

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Just a quick (and belated) note to let you know that I have an article in the February issue of iScot magazine, which also features contrib...
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Wednesday, February 7, 2018

It's now thirty years and counting since a Scot last represented the UK at Eurovision

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I was half-thinking of foregoing the Eurovision posts altogether this year, because some people seem to get weirdly irate when I do them.  ...
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"Oooh, you little fibbers!" Shock and disbelief as Scotsman newspaper is caught MISLEADING ITS READERS about an independence poll

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The days of me religiously following the Scotsman newspaper (at least via its website) have long since passed. But I did vaguely register t...
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Friday, February 2, 2018

More on the new Survation poll

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Just a quick note to let you know that I have a new article in The National , with some more analysis of the new Survation poll showing supp...
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Wednesday, January 31, 2018

Mainstream media's narrative lies in TATTERS as SNP vote increases across the board in sensational new Survation poll

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"Mike Smithson, calling Mike Smithson...Mike Smithson, come in please."  If you happen to be sitting next to a certain 'impa...
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Tuesday, January 23, 2018

An independence referendum in 2019 or 2020 is looking increasingly likely

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Somebody with more patience than I have will doubtless work their way line-by-line through Gerry Hassan's latest update of 'The Arti...
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Monday, January 22, 2018

'I don't know what a sense of Britishness is anymore'

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Sorry that blogging has been light recently - I've been a bit under the weather and rushed off my feet, which is never a great combinati...
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Thursday, January 18, 2018

The ultimate betrayal: Scottish Tory MPs vote to destroy the devolution settlement as we have known it for the last twenty years

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I wasn't following the notorious events in the Commons the other night very closely, so I was intrigued to see what the wording of the L...
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Wednesday, January 17, 2018

Body blow for hapless Leonard as Labour slip back in first Scottish poll of 2018

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Many thanks to Stuart Dickson for alerting me to the first full-scale Scottish poll of the New Year, conducted by YouGov for the Scottish ed...
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