Friday, July 5, 2019

Jeremy Hunt downgrades Scotland from an opinion poll democracy to an anecdote democracy

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At the risk of tempting fate by complimenting a journalist too much, STV's Colin Mackay has often been noted for making an effort to be ...
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Monday, July 1, 2019

Calling all Wikipedia editors

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Until very recently, Wikipedia's list of UK opinion polls was immaculately inclusive - it had a separate column for each party that enjo...
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Sunday, June 30, 2019

Boris Johnson's hapless attempt to blackmail Scotland over Brexit

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As we all know, a potentially decisive factor in the outcome of the first independence referendum was the message from the No campaign that ...
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52% of Scots demand an early independence referendum in landmark Panelbase poll, as Tory myth dies

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You might have noticed that for weeks now, when a journalist or Tory politician has erroneously claimed that "there is still no appetit...
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Saturday, June 29, 2019

Explaining democracy to unionist politicians

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It strikes me that the "reasons" offered by unionist politicians for blocking an independence referendum are becoming increasingly...
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Wednesday, June 26, 2019

Paging Carole Malone: Sorry, Carole, but every single opinion poll this year has shown that support for independence is significantly higher than 45%

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I literally can't even force myself to watch the now-notorious clip from the Jeremy Vine Show , in which Princess Diana's former but...
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Sunday, June 23, 2019

Bombshell Panelbase poll shows support for independence at a three-year high - even without Boris Johnson as PM

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You've probably seen by now that there's a new Panelbase poll today suggesting that if Boris Johnson becomes Prime Minister, there ...
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Thursday, June 20, 2019

Humiliation for Ruth Davidson as Tory leadership result proves no-one in Westminster is listening to her

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What seems like a billion years ago (but in fact it was only a few months), there used to be this crazy notion that Ruth Davidson might be t...
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Tuesday, June 18, 2019

A tentative forecast for the second round of the Tory leadership contest

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As my 2016 track record will bear witness to, ballots of Tory MPs are notoriously hard to predict.  The classic example was Margaret Thatche...
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Monday, June 17, 2019

Memo to Jeremy Hunt: the most recent poll shows a majority IN FAVOUR of an early independence referendum

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As you probably saw yesterday, Nicola Sturgeon "slapped down" Jeremy Hunt (to use official Express terminology) and told him that...
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