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March 26, 2024

Crunch time for Nicola Sturgeon: she must hold firm and maintain the Scottish lockdown in full. Saving thousands of lives is far more important than staying in lockstep with Westminster as it loses its mind on ‘Magic Monday’.

Crunch time: what happens if UK Gov scraps stay home advice this weekend but Scot Gov considers it dangerously early?— ruth wishart (@ruth_wishart) May 7, 2020The public mood is being...

Alert readers may have noticed that this site is once more under attack from Twitter. Following the suspension of the main Wings account last December, and one we set up for...

Rare birds ‘devastated’ by huge wildfire in Tayside

Rare birds in a conservation area on the Firth of Tay have been “devastated” by a huge wildfire during a dry spell in April, according to wildlife experts. They say...

Crisis for crestfallen Carlaw as extraordinary Panelbase poll gives the SNP a thirty-point lead over the Tories on the Holyrood constituency ballot

Many thanks to the Twitter user 'Flood the Mainstream' for pointing me in the direction of the Holyrood and Westminster numbers from the new Wings/Panelbase poll. It looks like they...

Facts aren’t decided by opinion poll

I've been trying to work out all day what I make of the results on the Wings/Panelbase poll question about whether people believe there was a conspiracy against Alex Salmond. ...

This site used to have a running joke about the number of times the Scottish media screamed “SNP CIVIL WAR!” whenever any two people in the party – one of...

Did the Telegraph deliberately target Neil Ferguson in a sinister attempt to weaken government policy on suppressing the epidemic?

Piers Morgan, for all his faults (and they are legion), has been excellent throughout this crisis, but I'm not going to follow him down the road of suggesting that Neil...

Torness nuclear reactors predicted to start cracking in 2022

Cracks that could increase the risk of a radioactive accident at Torness nuclear power station in East Lothian will start appearing six years sooner than previously thought, according to the...

This is truly remarkable: in the middle of the biggest international crisis since World War II, support for independence has just INCREASED to 50%

May 5, 2020

I was reasonably encouraged in late March when a Panelbase poll for the Sunday Times suggested that support for independence had only slipped from 52% to 49%. I would have...