Thursday, February 24, 2022

The invasion of Ukraine

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So I'm sitting down to write this at 4.30am, when most people in Scotland are fast asleep and will be unaware for another couple of hour...
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Sunday, February 20, 2022

Team Muirhead scale the Scolympic heights - which is more than can be said for the Mirror and the Express...

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First of all, huge congratulations to Eve Muirhead and her team for securing what will undoubtedly be regarded as one of the all-time great ...
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Friday, February 18, 2022

Why the results of the BBC / ComRes poll on GRA reform are less reliable than the three recent polls showing massive opposition to gender self-ID

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You may have seen yesterday that BBC Scotland commissioned a poll about reform of the Gender Recognition Act.  Having been through the proce...
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Tuesday, February 15, 2022

Expectations for May's local elections

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There was an attempted comment on the blog a few days ago which I didn't let through because it contained a potentially offensive word. ...
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Friday, February 11, 2022

The world has gone absolutely bloody mad

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In early 2020, when the possibility of lockdown was being very vaguely discussed for the first time due to the small number of precedents in...
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Friday, February 4, 2022

A response to yet more "feedback" (ahem) from Bella Caledonia

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Predictably, Bella Caledonia's eccentric hit-piece the other day about me and this blog led to an extended pile-on from The Trendies in ...
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Monday, January 31, 2022

BELLA WOMAN-PHOBIA? A response to Bella's bizarre hit-piece about Scot Goes Pop - which I was neither given advance notice of, nor offered a right of reply to

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I have a long history with the Bella Caledonia website (or the Bella Caledonia group blog, to call a spade a spade).  Way back when Scot Goe...
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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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