Month: October 2019

Well that was predictable. The EU has looked over the British Government’s die in a ditch proposal for a Brexit deal, and has gone “meh”. And as was equally predictable, ...

The Scottish Tories are thinking about a replacement for Ruth Ran Away Before Her Party Got Skelped Davidson. Sadly for the Scottish Tories, they’re reduced to fishing for a new ...

Families on housing benefit are being priced out of homes across Scotland, according to new data that highlights the crisis in affordable rents. UK-wide research by the Bureau of Investigative ...

So we’ve done a new poll, and this one’s a little different than usual. The sample was 1007 Scottish voters who said they would vote SNP with their constituency vote at ...

In this week’s edition of the dugcast, The National’s editor Callum Baird and I discuss how the Scottish Conservatives have been channelling that episode of Dallas when Sue Ellen woke ...

So there were a few interesting points made in response to the previous post.  Scottish Skier pointed out that the three YouGov subsamples putting the SNP in the 30s had ...

As a counterbalance to my post about the run of relatively unimpressive YouGov subsamples for the SNP, here's some better news from Opinium (well, "better" if you leave aside the ...

I’m not long home from Edinburgh. The dug and I went on the Edinburgh march and rally for independence along with my downstairs neighbours Mary and Mark, and my Uncle ...

How united are the main political parties? By Russell Bruce Returning to Lord Ashcroft Polls recent analysis carried out for the Conservative party conference, I have uncovered more information of ...

The number of fines issued to rogue fishermen has decreased over the past three years while skippers caught fishing in protected waters have not been reported to the procurator fiscal, ...