Thursday, May 14, 2020

Landmark Wings poll finds that the SNP's popularity is crucial to preserving the coalition of support for independence

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One of the reasons I knew in advance there was a Wings poll on its way was that people who had been interviewed by Panelbase mentioned there...
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Prematurely relaxing restrictions on so-called "low-risk" groups is an exceptionally high-risk thing to do - unless you can somehow totally segregate the generations, which you can't.

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This is the sort of point that sounds sophisticated but is actually very silly. Allowing so-called 'low risk' people to be infected ...
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Wednesday, May 13, 2020

The BBC can't have it both ways: if they want to criticise the Scottish Government for not taking stronger action than Westminster, they can't simultaneously dismiss devolved laws as toytown rules that shouldn't be taken too seriously

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I said yesterday that the BBC were partly justified (and I stress only partly ) in asking whether the Scottish Government could have saved ...
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Tuesday, May 12, 2020

Dr Mike Ryan of the WHO ferociously denounces UK-style herd immunity strategies: "Humans are not herds", "No-one is safe until everyone is safe"

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I posted the other day about Iain Macwhirter quoting Dr Mike Ryan out of context to give the false impression that the World Health Organiza...
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The BBC's criticism of Scotland's slowness to react to the crisis is *partly* justified - but the BBC itself has questions to answer about its own failings in March

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Quite a few SNP and independence supporters have reacted angrily to a BBC Scotland programme earlier this evening that suggested 80% of the ...
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Monday, May 11, 2020

As predicted, Stuart Campbell performs *another* 180 degree turn: his new case for a list-only party flatly contradicts the one he was making only a few months ago

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Stuart Campbell's latest rant today is fascinating (and mildly depressing) in at least one respect.  I had assumed his initial positive ...
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Sunday, May 10, 2020

If Britain has ceased to look like "one United Kingdom" tonight, it's because Boris Johnson has insisted upon a go-it-alone English-only policy change, while Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland remain united around "stay at home"

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If the Tories respect devolution as much as they say, can we look forward to Johnson stressing for clarity tonight that his announcements (a...
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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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