Month: January 2021

THEORETICALLY, THERE SHOULD be an element of shock in Richard Leonard’s resignation as Scottish Labour leader, so close to a Holyrood election. But nobody seems even remotely surprised. The party ...

You might remember that when this blog commissioned its third Panelbase poll last autumn, I had a bit of a dilemma, because I wanted to find out about public attitudes ...

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There's a rather, for want of a better word, daft post on Wings Over Scotland tonight (ironically tagged with the word "psephology"!) which tries to paint the finding in the ...

JUST MENTIONING THE ECONOMY these days brings accusations of negativity and even “talking down Scotland”. The news is bad, everyone knows it, nobody wants to hear it. To avoid confusion, ...

IT’S TEMPTING TO ignore the Scottish Labour leadership election. Here will be two career politicians with milquetoast opinions fighting for the soul of a party that long ceased to matter ...

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon recently said in Holyrood and in interviews that the rollout of the vaccines, initially one, then two and now three, was a race – a race ...

Every time I've crowdfunded a poll, by far the most requested question has been on the subject of a 'Plan B' to secure an independence mandate if a Section 30 ...

By the time that you get to nineteen opinion polls in a row, over the course of more than a year from several different polling companies, all of which have ...

“THE DEATH of the Republican party has been proclaimed many times before”, says Michael Billeaux. Billeaux, political sociologist at the University of Madison Wisconsin and a commentator on the US ...