Saturday, August 10, 2019

Nothing has changed: vote-splitting in Holyrood elections is still a mug's game

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So I've just been catching up with today's news (gleefully announced by Kenny "Devo or Death" Farquharson) that Wings Over...
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Wednesday, August 7, 2019

Every Loser Wins: How "democracy" works in Scotland as part of the UK

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Scottish Labour seem to be slipping deeper and deeper into an  Alice Through the Looking Glass world where the acceptance of reality is, at ...
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Monday, August 5, 2019

Has Ashcroft poll turned Our Precious Union to ASHES? Westminster in shock as a MAJORITY of Scots now support independence

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Apologies for the slight delay in getting this post up - I was writing an article for The National about the Ashcroft poll, which you can r...
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Saturday, August 3, 2019

Remaining open-minded about a Remain alliance in Scotland

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I have a new article in The National about the Brecon and Radnorshire result, entitled 'Could by-election-winning Remain alliance work ...
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Friday, August 2, 2019

The real winner in Brecon and Radnorshire was the Welsh language

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So a few quick thoughts about the Brecon and Radnorshire by-election result... * The big paradox is that the Liberal Democrats won, and th...
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Wednesday, July 31, 2019

On Robertson v McAlpine

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I've just been catching up with the indirect war of words the other day between Fiona Robertson (the SNP's highly controversial Wome...
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Monday, July 29, 2019

Plaid Cymru make history by TAKING THE LEAD in a Welsh poll for the first time ever

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Today's much-hyped Welsh poll from YouGov didn't disappoint: it shows Plaid Cymru taking the lead for the first time, and they'v...
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Sunday, July 28, 2019

Memo to Boris Johnson: "awesome foursome" doesn't actually rhyme properly in Scottish and Northern Irish accents

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Just to return briefly to the subject of Boris Johnson's bizarre appointment of the MP for Worcester as a junior minister in the Scotlan...
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Saturday, July 27, 2019

Swinson Bounce? What Swinson Bounce? Despair for overrated new Lib Dem leader as three new BOMBSHELL polls show her party flatlining

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On Wednesday, when the first poll came out after Boris Johnson became Tory leader, I suggested that there had been no Boris Bounce over and ...
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Boris Johnson has declared war on Scottish nationhood

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I was thoroughly bemused a few hours ago by the muted reaction from Nick Eardley of the BBC to the extraordinary news that Boris Johnson has...
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