Austerity is a major election talking point, as the different parties announce their plans for how to deal with the policy’s impact should they win the general election. The Ferret’s...
Read moreToday is – thanks be to God and all that is holy – the last day of the worst general election in recorded human history, and indeed perhaps the worst...
Read moreLeading Scottish campaigners and church leaders have called on politicians elected tomorrow to commit to “righting the wrongs” caused by a decade of austerity. Whoever wins the keys to 10...
Read moreYouGov MRP seats projection:Conservatives 339 (-20) Labour 231 (+20) SNP 41 (-2) Liberal Democrats 15 (+2) Plaid Cymru 4 (n/c) Greens 1 (n/c)Obviously the change figures in brackets are measured from the last update, not...
Read moreO/T. I watch the BBC’s leader debate, and putting aside that only Sturgeon is the real leader, all the rest are branch office managers, I weirdly enjoyed this particular debate....
Read moreIf memory serves me right, YouGov's projection model was updated every day during the 2017 general election campaign, but this time we've only seen one set of figures so far...
Read moreTwo stories from yesterday’s Scottish papers, published at 11.19am and 11.28am: But it’s even weirder than it looks. Because despite the seemingly totally contradictory headlines, the two articles above are...
Read morePhotograph Dorothy Bruce By Russell Bruce People can be pretty confused by the multitude of polling data churned out but what polling has consistently shown over many months is women...
Read moreSo the mystery of the YouGov independence poll has been solved - it wasn't the same poll that gave the SNP a 44% to 28% lead over the Tories. It...
Read moreNearly 10,000 calls to a helpline for rape victims went unanswered last year due to a lack of resources, according to Rape Crisis Scotland. A new report by the charity,...
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