Tuesday, January 25, 2022

Has the Boris Factor outlived its usefulness for the independence movement?

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Just a quick note to let you know that I'm quoted (along with Green activist Laura Moodie and Professor James Mitchell) in Alasdair Sous...
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Sunday, January 23, 2022

Welcome to the parallel universe in which the BBC would have the right to expect supporters of independence to defend the licence fee

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Fingers point at Auntie after the UK's "Near Death Experience" Edinburgh - 19th September 2014 Anti-separation chiefs were jub...
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Friday, January 21, 2022

First independence poll of 2022 sees Yes draw level in a Savanta ComRes survey for first time since April: does #Partygate mean #PartyOver for #OurPreciousUnion?

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The final independence poll of last year - which was also the first since the ongoing story of the Downing Street parties broke - presented ...
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Thursday, January 13, 2022

The day that the Scottish Tories finally saw themselves through the contemptuous eyes of their Westminster masters

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The election leaflets are going to write themselves, aren't they? "I don't think Douglas Ross is a big figure." "He...
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Monday, January 10, 2022

"I will do everything within my power to do this" does not mean the same thing as "I will do this, this will be done"

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“I intend to do everything that’s within my power to enable that referendum to happen before the end of 2023” Watch the First Minister’s ful...
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Sunday, January 9, 2022

And a second New Year's Resolution for the Yes movement: let's make 2022 the year Scotland gains a genuinely balanced six-party system

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Back in the days when Scotland had a clear-cut four party system, there was sometimes a debate over whether it was a good thing or a bad thi...
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Wednesday, January 5, 2022

A second memo to Chris Hanlon: "recalling" two parliaments that haven't existed since the early 18th Century is not a "relatively simple matter"

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Chris Hanlon left a comment on my previous post about his support for a multi-option referendum featuring a Devo Max option.  I initially t...
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Tuesday, January 4, 2022

Memo to Chris Hanlon: Devo Max is either impossible, or it's a trap

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I may be quite unusual among independence supporters in that I would be inclined to take Devo Max if it was genuinely on offer.  I've al...
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Monday, January 3, 2022

Average of all independence polls from 2021 shows a Yes vote of 50%

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Scot Goes Pop commissioned three full-scale polls on independence during 2021, two from Panelbase and one from Survation - but in total ther...
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Saturday, January 1, 2022

A New Year's resolution for the independence movement: embrace the principle of falsifiability

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A warm welcome to 2022, the year in which - if Nicola Sturgeon keeps the promise she made to the SNP conference - the "process will be ...
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