Saturday, May 9, 2020

Here we go again: now Iain Macwhirter is trying to gaslight us into thinking the WHO have done some sort of U-turn. Spoiler alert: no they haven't.

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A recurring feature of this crisis has been anti-lockdown journalists trying to gaslight their readers into believing that experts have said...
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Friday, May 8, 2020

Panelbase poll suggests more than one-third of Labour voters are pro-independence - which leaves Keir Starmer with a big problem

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Panelbase have released the datasets for a couple of questions from the Wings poll, and a few interesting points leap out. First of all, re...
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Thursday, May 7, 2020

Crunch time for Nicola Sturgeon: she must hold firm and maintain the Scottish lockdown in full. Saving thousands of lives is far more important than staying in lockstep with Westminster as it loses its mind on 'Magic Monday'.

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Crunch time: what happens if UK Gov scraps stay home advice this weekend but Scot Gov considers it dangerously early? — ruth wishart (@ruth_...
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Wednesday, May 6, 2020

Crisis for crestfallen Carlaw as extraordinary Panelbase poll gives the SNP a thirty-point lead over the Tories on the Holyrood constituency ballot

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Many thanks to the Twitter user 'Flood the Mainstream' for pointing me in the direction of the Holyrood and Westminster numbers from...
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Facts aren't decided by opinion poll

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I've been trying to work out all day what I make of the results on the Wings/Panelbase poll question about whether people believe there ...
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Did the Telegraph deliberately target Neil Ferguson in a sinister attempt to weaken government policy on suppressing the epidemic?

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Piers Morgan, for all his faults (and they are legion), has been excellent throughout this crisis, but I'm not going to follow him down ...
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Tuesday, May 5, 2020

This is truly remarkable: in the middle of the biggest international crisis since World War II, support for independence has just INCREASED to 50%

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I was reasonably encouraged in late March when a Panelbase poll for the Sunday Times suggested that support for independence had only slippe...
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Anti-lockdown right-wingers seem to believe in libertarianism for pathogens, not people. It's Thatcherism for microbes.

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Because I've been posting over the last few weeks in favour of social distancing, lockdown, testing, contact tracing, quarantining, etc,...
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Sunday, May 3, 2020

A short reply to Dani Garavelli: perhaps the independence movement should be reclaimed from those who think independence is less important than purity tests?

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Is Dani Garavelli a Yes supporter? I asked that question on Twitter because I genuinely don't know the answer.  If she isn't, the bi...
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Saturday, May 2, 2020

The vast majority of the British public want to extend the lockdown, according to new YouGov poll

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First of all, I have an article in The National  with more analysis of yesterday's sensational YouGov poll, which showed the SNP on an a...
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