Month: March 2019

Local by-elections in Scotland are conducted by Single Transferable Vote (which to all intents and purposes functions like the Alternative Vote if only one councillor is being elected), meaning that ...

Film footage of heather moorland on fire belching clouds of smoke across the Cairngorms has sparked fierce criticism of sporting estates.Landowners and gamekeepers burn patches of heather to help boost ...

The SNP’s Joanna Cherry was told by a pro-Brexit protester that she was a traitor and that she should go back to her own country. I’m quite sure that Joanna ...

Several media outlets today relate a story from BBC Scotland’s fascinating three-part documentary of the indyref, revealing that secret UK government polling in the first week of September 2014 gave Yes a lead ...

Scotland’s richest MSP is under pressure to return a £185,000 property development grant after bungling officials failed to claim it back on time. Taxpayer cash was awarded to a firm ...

It’s now been confirmed what those of us who were paying attention had known all along. During the independence referendum campaign of 2014, senior journalists within the BBC saw their ...

The breakdown data from last week’s vote on Theresa May’s withdrawal agreement: ENGLAND: 266 MPs for, 256 MPs against (51%-49%)SCOTLAND: 13 for, 45 against (22%-78%)WALES: 6 for, 33 against (15%-85%)NORTHERN IRELAND: 1 for, 10 against (9%-91%) Once again, readers, the ...

As we all know, an individual Scottish subsample from a GB-wide voting intention poll is rarely of much use, except as a straw in the wind when there's absolutely nothing ...

Hackers have brought down the computer system at Scotland’s only immigration detention centre prompting an investigation by Police Scotland, The Ferret can reveal.The cyber attack took place more than six ...

Well that’s buggered that then. Today in the House of Commons the Speaker John Bercow blindsided Theresa May by telling her in no uncertain terms that her government can’t just ...