• The Union that takes 8½ years off your life* (*Comparing Weegies)

    It was already an unthinking narrative with the events of the past ten years. But asking that question, this time especially, given the contents of the document being released and the speech just made, was particularly cloth-eared. The paper was about various vivid failures of the UK. Shown through the kind of international comparison that leaves clammy, bespectacled, ‘These Islands’ types all too obviously agitated and even more snide than normal…

  • Broken record

    Another day, another Spectator article alleging a Scottish Government ‘record of failure.’ Details of that failure are just as scarce and vague as usual however, with the two spectator journalists who wrote it apparently blaming ‘secrecy’. So let’s help them out. Because the truth is out there. Links to all claims, of course.

  • Yes or No?

    Unionist campaign group ‘These Islands’ has spent some of their £160k on more independence polling. They asked the official (Yes/No) question, the ‘Scotland in Union’ (Leave/Remain) question, and a whole load of supplementary and hypothetical questions on timing and what particular issues matter most to people in relation to independence. Let’s see what they learned and what they didn’t.

  • Stephen Daisley’s ‘lost Scotland’

    With the half-arsed praise quickly out of the way, Daisley gets on with his, anticipated, take of Douglas Ross’ 2022 Scots Tory Party conference speech. Where the Mail writer tries to improve and amplify the big Tory message. It amounts to one concept. By chance, the same one that Daisley is always writing about… ending division… caused by Nats. The Tories as a unifying force. Let’s dive into the madness…

  • 22 polls in a row for independence

    2019 recap: Polls showed support for Scottish independence rising but still generally trailing support for the Union (unless Brexit was…