Month: June 2020

So you've probably seen the headline in the Sunday National about a poll that appears to show this...Should Scotland be an independent country?  (Panelbase) Yes 54% (+2)No 46% (-2) I ...

Scottish politics dissected from a left, pro-independence stance. Each week, award-winning broadcaster and journalist, Lesley Riddoch chews over the week’s news with former media lecturer and Dundee United fan, Pat ...

Let's return briefly to the false claim that was made the other day that public opinion on independence hasn't budged for years.  It's probably best to demonstrate in precise terms ...

SHOULD Scotland be enthused by the trailing of some of what may be in the Advisory Group on Economic Recovery’s plans? This isn’t one of my (shortly concluding) virus columns ...

At the outset of the pandemic, New Zealand was on one end of the spectrum in controversially arguing that the virus could be completely eliminated.  On the other end was ...

Confucius said: “When words lose their meaning, people lose their freedom”. This may be over-doing it a little, but I know what he meant. Words are how we express the ...

What to do about schools is becoming a big problem for the Scottish Government, with no clear solution yet in sight and significant confusion about what the Scottish Government is ...

There’s a lot of upset on social media today. The usual anti-independence suspects have worked themselves up in a froth of indignation that those vile and nasty cybernats are pointing ...

Foreign companies own £4.4 billion worth of Scottish property, The Ferret can reveal, leading to calls for greater transparency to stop Scotland losing out on tax revenue. Concerns have also ...

The Scottish branch office of the Three B’s party, British, Brexit and Boris, is exulting today that it forced a u-turn from the Scottish Government’s education minister John Swinney on ...