SCOT goes POP!: YouGov survey puts SNP in pole position for Europe...

SCOT goes POP!: YouGov survey puts SNP in pole position for Europe...: There have been so many different polls over the last few weeks that it's possible I've lost track somewhere along the line, but I&#...

SCOT goes POP!: Wisdom on Wednesday : More from Parnell

SCOT goes POP!: Wisdom on Wednesday : More from Parnell: "Why should Ireland be treated as a geographical fragment of England? Ireland is not a geographical fragment, but a nation." Sa...

SCOT goes POP!: Meet your ill-fitting match

SCOT goes POP!: Meet your ill-fitting match: In the past, 'vote match' and 'political compass' type questionnaires have quite accurately reflected my natural preference ...

Frankly Independent: The Bruges Speech

Frankly Independent: The Bruges Speech:                The College of Europe in Bruges , where UK PM Margaret Thatcher issued a Europhobic warning against a  ...

Monday, 28 April 2014

SNmr: Choices

SNmr: Choices: Gordon Brown is not a stupid man. He knows that what he is saying today on pensions is nonsense and he has specifically selected his statist...

SCOT goes POP!: Another example of what gives YouGov such a bad na...

SCOT goes POP!: Another example of what gives YouGov such a bad na...: This question appears in today's YouGov poll commissioned by the Sunday Times , and it's certainly not the first time we've seen...

SCOT goes POP!: Is Ian Smart a malfunctioning android?

SCOT goes POP!: Is Ian Smart a malfunctioning android?: Now don't bite my head off, I'm merely throwing the question out there.  I know we've long suspected that Smart isn't quite ...

Saturday, 26 April 2014

A Fifers Thoughts On Independence: An Evening With Mr Carmichael

A Fifers Thoughts On Independence: An Evening With Mr Carmichael: If you had asked me a year ago if i would like to spend an evening with Allister Carmichael, i would have probably compared the proposal t...

SCOT goes POP!: Who Wants to Be a Laughing-Stock?

SCOT goes POP!: Who Wants to Be a Laughing-Stock?: Well, CBI, this is where it gets very exciting.  You're just one question away from being able to spend up to £150,000 campaigning again...

Frankly Independent: Chomsky for Indy

Frankly Independent: Chomsky for Indy: At a time when a UK political leader  whose father was a prominent Marxist thinker has been making a frenzied stab at persuading Scottish...

SCOT goes POP!: ITV's position is untenable - if this was a UK-wid...

SCOT goes POP!: ITV's position is untenable - if this was a UK-wid...: Make no mistake - if the CBI had registered as an official supporter of either the Yes or No campaign in the AV referendum, ITV would have i...

Tarff Advertiser: Reply to a Unionist ex-serviceman.

Tarff Advertiser: Reply to a Unionist ex-serviceman.: " I am 40 something have served my country in the Forces have traveled far and wide in doing so and have met many...

Lallands Peat Worrier: Expert blasts "reckless" SNP royal policy

Lallands Peat Worrier: Expert blasts "reckless" SNP royal policy: Disaster on disaster. While in the pages of Daily Telegraph the First Sealord warns that independence would hull our maritime security b...

Munguin's Republic: EVERYTHING THEY SAY IS RUBBISH: THEY'VE GIVEN UP O...

Munguin's Republic: EVERYTHING THEY SAY IS RUBBISH: THEY'VE GIVEN UP O...: Well, they said there was something wrong, so I suppose they were right on something! Darling, as we've said before has no author...

SCOT goes POP!: The mad, mad world of Rory Stewart MP

SCOT goes POP!: The mad, mad world of Rory Stewart MP: You've really got to hand it to Rory Stewart, the half-Scottish Tory MP for Penrith.  There aren't many 41-year-olds from these pa...

SCOT goes POP!: Concerns mount over the pollsters' apparent failur...

SCOT goes POP!: Concerns mount over the pollsters' apparent failur...: In some quarters, ICM's Martin Boon has been widely praised for his piece in Scotland on Sunday explaining the thinking behind his comp...

SCOT goes POP!: Wisdom on Wednesday : The eleventh commandment was...

SCOT goes POP!: Wisdom on Wednesday : The eleventh commandment was...: "But no man has the right to fix the boundary to the march of a nation. No man has a right to say to his country: 'Thus far shalt ...

Frankly Independent: Catalonia Votes

Frankly Independent: Catalonia Votes:                  On April 21st, with 201 days to go until November 9th, DiploCAT launched its new website, Catalonia...

SNmr: No basis in reality

SNmr: No basis in reality: No matter how hard they try, the No (thanks) campaign just can't escape their negativity. I almost feel sorry for them. This week they...

SCOT goes POP!: Recalculating the Poll of Polls and long-term tren...

SCOT goes POP!: Recalculating the Poll of Polls and long-term tren...: First things first - Survation have released the datasets for yesterday's referendum poll, and they show that on the unrounded figures (...

SCOT goes POP!: Landmark Survation poll confirms that pro-independ...

SCOT goes POP!: Landmark Survation poll confirms that pro-independ...: As it's Easter Sunday, I'll just keep this brief and give you the figures - Should Scotland be an independent country? Yes 38% (...

The Scottish Scaremonger: The "Lord George" Gentleman's Overcoat

The Scottish Scaremonger: The "Lord George" Gentleman's Overcoat:   A coat for all seasons A coat for the sophisticated "man-about-town" A coat for the glamourous international travell...

SCOT goes POP!: Independence rises this Easter, as Yes campaign cl...

SCOT goes POP!: Independence rises this Easter, as Yes campaign cl...: Santa was rather kind to us by delivering a swing to Yes in the last batch of polls before Christmas, and I'm delighted to say that the ...

Saturday, 19 April 2014

Logic's Rock: Defence? De man wid de nails am comin' to fix it.

Logic's Rock: Defence? De man wid de nails am comin' to fix it.: As a relic of Empire kicked out of more than one newly independent country in my youth, and later as one who spent his military career conf...

Logic's Rock: Defence? De man wid de nails am comin' to fix it.

Logic's Rock: Defence? De man wid de nails am comin' to fix it.: As a relic of Empire kicked out of more than one newly independent country in my youth, and later as one who spent his military career conf...

Munguin's Republic: MORE RANDOM THOUGHTS

Munguin's Republic: MORE RANDOM THOUGHTS: Letter to the Honourable Mr Docherty MP Dear The Honourable Mr Docherty, I understand that you have recently made a comment about peo...

Frankly Independent: Shaping the Future

Frankly Independent: Shaping the Future:              Trade union members at the Scottish Trades Union Congress in Dundee this week (April 14th-16th)      ...

Friday, 18 April 2014

A ponte entre Galiza e Escocia // The bridge between Galiza and Scotland : 声援苏格兰/ // SOLIDARITY WITH SCOTLAND

A ponte entre Galiza e Escocia // The bridge between Galiza and Scotland : 声援苏格兰/ // SOLIDARITY WITH SCOTLAND: https://www.facebook.com/solidaritywithscotland @ScotlandAbroad 声援苏格兰 / 几个月前有位美国朋友曾问我,她能为苏格兰独立做些什么。 “不必做什么”,我回答说,然后跟她解释,这是苏格兰的内...

Frankly Independent: Mars Attacks

Frankly Independent: Mars Attacks:           The latest from Project Fear (Click on image to enlarge.)         Hysteria rises as the Yes campaign ga...

Munguin's Republic: YES T-SHIRTS ANYONE?

Munguin's Republic: YES T-SHIRTS ANYONE?: In Albert Street, Dundee, today, I was walking past Dundee Tech Repair , where Munguin gets his many computers repaired, when I noticed tha...

SNmr: A very (un)British intervention

SNmr: A very (un)British intervention: I thought we lived in a country where the military didn’t tell us how to vote or who should govern us. And, yet, that is what has just happe...

Wednesday, 16 April 2014

Munguin's Republic: IT'S UP TO YOU...

Munguin's Republic: IT'S UP TO YOU...: Even the press think it is mad When on earth are they going to learn?

Munguin's Republic: SCANDAL OF THE 400% RISE IN FOODBANK USE

Munguin's Republic: SCANDAL OF THE 400% RISE IN FOODBANK USE: These figures are UK wide But at least we are still punching above our weight when it comes to running the world and causing wars. ...

SCOT goes POP!: Dramatic TNS-BMRB poll shows pro-independence camp...

SCOT goes POP!: Dramatic TNS-BMRB poll shows pro-independence camp...: This is hugely significant, more so than any Panelbase or even ICM poll. TNS-BMRB are different because they are one of only two non-online...

The Scottish Scaremonger: The "Indy-Monstered" Kit

The Scottish Scaremonger: The "Indy-Monstered" Kit: Don't miss out on this  Scaremonger Special Offer! Did you feel left out when you read about your colleagues are being "monst...

Munguin's Republic: MoD fire depleted uranium shells into Scottish wat...

Munguin's Republic: MoD fire depleted uranium shells into Scottish wat...: THE MoD has used a legal loophole to fire thousands of depleted uranium shells into Scottish waters. Military bosses dodged an inter...

Peter A Bell: Hot air from blimps

Peter A Bell: Hot air from blimps: Colonel Blimp (Photo credit: psd ) Apparently, a bunch of mothballed military types have seen fit to write a threatening letter...

Sunday, 13 April 2014

Logic's Rock: The Third Seal

Logic's Rock: The Third Seal: Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse  1887 by  Victor Vasnetsov A nd when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come an...

SCOT goes POP!: What Better Together would be saying about their Y...

SCOT goes POP!: What Better Together would be saying about their Y...: What Better Together actually said : This latest poll, which saw 1148 adults surveyed in Scotland between 8 and 11 April 2014, also confirm...

Frankly Independent: Taking the Future

Frankly Independent: Taking the Future:              First Minister Alex Salmond addressing the Scottish National Party spring conference April 12th 2014     ...

Unusual Historicals: Money Matters: The Tally Stick System

Unusual Historicals: Money Matters: The Tally Stick System: By Lisa Marie Wilkinson Throughout the centuries people have paid their debts and bought and sold goods using forms of exchange ranging fr...

SCOT goes POP!: Sagacity on Saturday : A Non-Wisdom Special

SCOT goes POP!: Sagacity on Saturday : A Non-Wisdom Special: "A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us." Said by former Prime Minister Margaret ...

SCOT goes POP!: Poll commissioned by anti-independence campaign ba...

SCOT goes POP!: Poll commissioned by anti-independence campaign ba...: One day, very very soon, we're going to start calling a brass neck a 'McDougall'. Just 24 hours after mocking the Yes campaign f...

SCOT goes POP!: YouGov continues to cynically mislead its own resp...

SCOT goes POP!: YouGov continues to cynically mislead its own resp...: Terribly mysterious thing, this - Blair McDougall has decided to ignore the results of a new poll showing his anti-independence campaign ar...

Frankly Independent: Convergence and Divergence

Frankly Independent: Convergence and Divergence:               New Poll: Yes 47% - Strong majority would vote Yes in #indyref if better off. Click here .         ...

Thursday, 10 April 2014

Tommy Ball's Blog: The European elections and a worrying democratic d...

Tommy Ball's Blog: The European elections and a worrying democratic d...: The nation awaits, agape and expectant, searching frantically for information on the various prospectuses. The feeling of anticipation is ta...

Wednesday, 9 April 2014

Tocasaid: Better Together, cataclysmic apart...

Tocasaid: Better Together, cataclysmic apart...: In the Gaelic of Islay, thank you is not ' tapadh leat ' but ' gu robh math agad ' So, to Lord George of Port Ellen, &#...

Frankly Independent: Another No

Frankly Independent: Another No:      Antena 3 Noticias, April 8th 2014         Yesterday the lower house of the Spanish parliament, the Congress of ...

Tuesday, 8 April 2014

The Calum Maclean Project: Peter Grant, ‘Auld Dubrach’: The King’s Oldest Ene...

The Calum Maclean Project: Peter Grant, ‘Auld Dubrach’: The King’s Oldest Ene...: A short extract from an interview conducted by Calum Maclean and Dr John MacInnes on a fieldwork trip to Braemar in 1959, local man John ...

Monday, 7 April 2014

Tocasaid: Fun at the fitba with Leigh Griffiths and The Rang...

Tocasaid: Fun at the fitba with Leigh Griffiths and The Rang...: Scottish football has been all shook up but some things have stayed just the way they always were. Such as... Rangers fans bringing viol...

Logic's Rock: Comic Trumps Academic in "Evil Cybernat" Publicity...

Logic's Rock: Comic Trumps Academic in "Evil Cybernat" Publicity...: As the storm in a teacup that was the utterly contrived Susan Calman "abuse" and "death threats" stooshie was subsidin...

SCOT goes POP!: More details from today's Panelbase poll

SCOT goes POP!: More details from today's Panelbase poll: Many thanks to Oldnat for pointing me in the direction of the datasets for today's Panelbase/ Wings Over Scotland poll, which have been ...

Sunday, 6 April 2014

The Calum Maclean Project: The Sweetest Bite: Cameron of Lochiel and the Engl...

The Calum Maclean Project: The Sweetest Bite: Cameron of Lochiel and the Engl...: Sir Ewen Dubh Cameron (1629–1719) who was referred to by the historian Thomas Babington Macaulay as the Ulysses of the Highlands was undo...

Frankly Independent: Scotland Is on the Way

Frankly Independent: Scotland Is on the Way:              The late Margo MacDonald MSP in 2012, supporting the Yes campaign in the Scottish independence referendum ...

Tocasaid: Margo: clach air a càrn

Tocasaid: Margo: clach air a càrn: She knew what Scotland needed to flourish and she knew what Scotland needed was to share its wealth and use it for the benefit of all. He...

SCOT goes POP!: Panic stations for anti-independence campaign as P...

SCOT goes POP!: Panic stations for anti-independence campaign as P...: When a polling organisation produces a poll showing something out of the ordinary, as Panelbase did last month by showing the No campaign a...

Saturday, 5 April 2014

SCOT goes POP!: Thoughts of Margo, plus a graph

SCOT goes POP!: Thoughts of Margo, plus a graph: I always feel at moments like this that I should be paying my own personal tribute, but there's nothing I could say about Margo MacDonal...

SNmr: Flight of fancy

SNmr: Flight of fancy: There’s been a flurry of concern online this morning over a memo, supposedly from Bill Munro of Barrhead Travel. Part of me wonders whether ...

SNmr: The No campaign's women problem

SNmr: The No campaign's women problem: In a parallel referendum universe, there is discussion of what has become known as the No campaign’s ‘men problem’. That is, the situation...

jrbrownlie: Oxymoron

jrbrownlie: Oxymoron: A lady buys a top of the range Rolls Royce but took it back to the dealer the next day because the radio did not work.  The dealer explained...

Munguin's Republic: MARGO

Munguin's Republic: MARGO: I was going to write something long and serious about Margo who died today. But many other people have done a far better job that I wou...

Munguin's Republic: DO SAVAGES LIKE THIS DESERVE A SIRHOOD?

Munguin's Republic: DO SAVAGES LIKE THIS DESERVE A SIRHOOD?: The good guy lost this particular battle; the savage won. Pity. This is Millionaire Banker, Tory Advisor and member and supporter of ...

The Scottish Scaremonger: The Scaremonger Paint Range

The Scottish Scaremonger: The Scaremonger Paint Range: The Scaremonger in association with world famous decorative consultant Naymor Oyal   The "NaySayer" Paint Range Choos...

SCOT goes POP!: Concerns raised over Ipsos-Mori's methodology

SCOT goes POP!: Concerns raised over Ipsos-Mori's methodology: An anonymous poster left this rather troubling comment on last night's post about polling accuracy - "James this is an excellent...

Peter A Bell: Silencing the proles

Peter A Bell: Silencing the proles: It's not difficult to see what is behind the latest inane rant from an increasingly frenzied and incoherent Alistair Darling as he bera...

SCOT goes POP!: How much credibility do the polls have?

SCOT goes POP!: How much credibility do the polls have?: Over the last couple of days, I've been contacted by three different people asking for my thoughts on this blogpost from Auld Acquainta...

Tarff Advertiser: England is Screwed! (No not the Dutch 20/20 win)

Tarff Advertiser: England is Screwed! (No not the Dutch 20/20 win): "All this highlights two issues: the no campaign is in difficulty – polls show the yes vote increasing – and England is indifferent. ...

Tuesday, 1 April 2014

Logic's Rock: From Carry On Screaming to Carry On Camping

Logic's Rock: From Carry On Screaming to Carry On Camping: Is Project Fear trying a new image with its choice of celebrity endorsements? First, the Krankies, then John Barrowman's cringeworthy I...

Logic's Rock: Da Vinci Code Expert called to Edinburgh to collar...

Logic's Rock: Da Vinci Code Expert called to Edinburgh to collar...: By no means the most shocking news to come out of Edinburgh today was this shocking tweet from Edinburgh South Labour MP Ian Murray: ...

SCOT goes POP!: Brit Nat Tomkins isn't quite the king of the castl...

SCOT goes POP!: Brit Nat Tomkins isn't quite the king of the castl...: Not for the first time, Professor Adam Tomkins took part in a discussion on Newsnight Scotland last night without having his hard-line anti...