Friday, July 7, 2023

A few months ago, the press regulator IPSO also upheld a complaint against the Sun on Sunday for lying about the results of a Scottish independence poll

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You might remember that a few weeks ago, the "press regulator" IPSO (in reality a self-regulator set up by the press themselves in...
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Wednesday, July 5, 2023

Westminster REELS IN SHOCK as support for independence SURGES in new BOMBSHELL Redfield & Wilton poll - but Humza Yousaf's personal popularity slumps again, and the SNP are clinging on to a barely-there lead

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Should Scotland be an independent country?  (Redfield & Wilton Strategies, 1st-2nd July 2023) Yes 48% (+3) No 52% (-3) To some extent th...
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New Survation poll shows independence support continuing to hold up impressively, while the SNP under Yousaf cling on to a precariously slender lead at both Westminster and Holyrood

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So let's start with the customary good news - in common with all other recent polls, the new Survation poll shows support for independen...
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Saturday, July 1, 2023

The incompatibility between NATO membership and signing the treaty banning nuclear weapons is actually a golden opportunity for the SNP to get themselves off the NATO hook

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It's not often that one of the unionist usual suspects on Twitter makes me grudgingly say "good point", but that happened a we...
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Friday, June 30, 2023

Alex Massie was the architect of a notorious piece of TV fakery during the 2014 indyref - but he's now attempting a much more outrageous deception

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In the 2014 referendum, Alex Massie got on a TV debate by posing as an "undecided voter". That was TV fakery on a par with Major C...
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Thursday, June 29, 2023

Yousaf has at least half-listened to SNP members about using the election to win independence - but for the plan to work *without* him being replaced by a more popular leader, he'll have to dispense with the destructive factionalism and bring his rivals back into government

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For the three months since the nightmare scenario unfolded in late March, I've been consistently saying that the SNP needed to do *at le...
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Tuesday, June 27, 2023

So where do we go from here?

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As regular readers will recall, I was in absolute despair when Humza Yousaf was narrowly elected SNP leader in controversial circumstances t...
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Monday, June 26, 2023

Until such time as there is a democratic mechanism by which Scotland can freely choose to leave the UK, we are to all intents and purposes a colony - and if the description makes unionists in England deeply uncomfortable, that's exactly as it should be

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I'm a bit tired today, because I was up to 3am last night as a result of the director of a Labour think tank (or technically the Labour ...
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Sunday, June 25, 2023

In spite of Team Humza's optimistic attempts to use the heckler incident to turn their man into Gandhi, the polling evidence continues to suggest he's leading the SNP to big losses at the general election

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The team around Humza Yousaf obviously felt they'd pulled off a masterstroke yesterday by quietly changing the definition of victory for...
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Saturday, June 24, 2023

The "Schrodinger's De Facto" announced by Yousaf today is a deliberately ambiguous and contradictory policy - but it may still represent a step forward *if* he can be held to it

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The minutes immediately after Humza Yousaf reached the key part of his speech were rather comical, with the BBC claiming that he had announc...
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