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We’ve never been able to actually confirm the oft-cited “quote” from Margaret Thatcher suggesting that the SNP winning a majority of Scottish seats at a UK election would constitute a...

We couldn’t help but raise a quizzical eyebrow at this assertion from SNP MP Pete Wishart in today’s Sunday National. It was said in the context of securing a second indyref in...

Scotland’s education watchdog has been accused of allowing inequity to be “hardwired into the system” following revelations that a paid-for consultancy service is dominated by private schools. In the...

I live here and I loathe that man beyond all words. He’s the worst of all worlds: a self serving right wing climate change denying politician and a fundamentalist evangelical...

From less than 10 years ago: A plebiscitary election? Now there’s an idea you don’t hear much any more. Category comment, history, scottish politics, uk politics Trackback: trackback...

YouGov have conducted the first poll of the Labour leadership contest, and given the good track record of similar polls in the past, it now looks pretty likely that the...

Have a great 2020, readers. We’re still in the UK, for now. (Pic by Rafal Miazga, from Woot! 2019 tape magazine for the ZX Spectrum.) Category culture Trackback:...

Well, I was all set to write a retrospective of how Scot Goes Pop has covered the seismic events of the last decade...but I've run out of time.  Maybe tomorrow,...

The 2010s end in a matter of hours, and everyone and their genderfluid dog is writing retrospectives of the 10 years just past. This site, which came into existence in...

By Russell Bruce Boris Johnson has many faces and the problem for commentators is to find the most predicable ‘face’ in order to make a judgement on the most likely...