SCOT goes POP!: Come On In, Scotland! (Or 'My trip to the Commonw...

SCOT goes POP!: Come On In, Scotland! (Or 'My trip to the Commonw...: So, yes, I'm just back from Celtic Park.  I hadn't been planning to go to the opening ceremony until a few weeks ago, when I got an ...

SCOT goes POP!: New Panelbase poll shows Yes vote up on last direc...

SCOT goes POP!: New Panelbase poll shows Yes vote up on last direc...: A new Panelbase poll has finally been released - I'm not sure yet whether it's the one that we heard about people being interviewed ...

Lallands Peat Worrier: Irregular verbs

Lallands Peat Worrier: Irregular verbs: The independence campaign is becoming characterised by its irregular verbs.  Last month , it was I disagree with you .  You shout me down...

Tarff Advertiser: Darling? Nob End or Dickhead?

Tarff Advertiser: Darling? Nob End or Dickhead?: After my burst of creativity in the early part of last week a combination of the sun (a stranger to Scotland), golf and just being so compl...

SCOT goes POP!: A wild suggestion : why not crowdfund the handing ...

SCOT goes POP!: A wild suggestion : why not crowdfund the handing ...: I don't know if anyone has definitively solved the mystery of who was responsible for handing out the blatantly political "two-face...

Tocasaid: Happy Birthday George from BBC Tocasaid!

Tocasaid: Happy Birthday George from BBC Tocasaid!: Or, alles Gute zum Geburtstag in your ancestral tongue. It's been a while but what better occasion to take a break from the scorch...

SCOT goes POP!: Is this the best put-down of the campaign so far?

SCOT goes POP!: Is this the best put-down of the campaign so far?: Jonathan Jones (in his "On Art" Guardian blog) : Scotland's art is doing brilliantly as an inflection of British art. Brede...

SCOT goes POP!: TNS-BMRB poll : 'Undecided leaners' are breaking f...

SCOT goes POP!: TNS-BMRB poll : 'Undecided leaners' are breaking f...: As I pointed out a few days ago that the rounding in the ICM poll had flattered No slightly, I should in fairness also point out that the r...

SCOT goes POP!: I wouldn't have thought this was possible, but I'v...

SCOT goes POP!: I wouldn't have thought this was possible, but I'v...: There's been a perception for quite some time that, in broad brush terms, and perhaps because of the personality traits that drive peopl...

SCOT goes POP!: Wisdom on Wednesday : Knowledge is power, in more ...

SCOT goes POP!: Wisdom on Wednesday : Knowledge is power, in more ...: "An independent Scotland could now expect to have massive surpluses both on its budget and on its balance of payments and with the prop...

Thursday, 24 July 2014

Frankly Independent: A Crazy Dream

Frankly Independent: A Crazy Dream:              An Indian television news report (in Telugu) on the Scottish Commonwealth Games opening ceremony (TV5 New...

Frankly Independent: Scottish Independence Is Inevitable

Frankly Independent: Scottish Independence Is Inevitable: Have you noticed how the Bitter Together/ Project Fear campaign has taken to indulging in a ritual incantation to the effect that advocat...

Frankly Independent: Getting It Together

Frankly Independent: Getting It Together: Do you remember those complacently self-assured Tory types with bushy tails and one-track minds who self-righteously prated at us that we&...

Tarff Advertiser: Commonwealth Games

Tarff Advertiser: Commonwealth Games: Glasgow is all hyped up with nowhere to go, travel lanes have been marked around the city so VIP's can be whisked from one photo oppor...

SCOT goes POP!: A-list, at last

SCOT goes POP!: A-list, at last: You might remember that a few months ago, the ex-fascist Daily Mail newspaper started running a series of sinister articles that "named...

Frankly Independent: A Normal Country

Frankly Independent: A Normal Country:              Un País Normal (A Normal Country), a Catalan documentary with subtitles in English           This...

Tarff Advertiser: Better Together - for whom?

Tarff Advertiser: Better Together - for whom?: To a friend who is a Better Together supporter: Dear ...... Maybe you can make a positive case for the Union because the Better Together ...

Tarff Advertiser: The NHS is safe in my hands ....

Tarff Advertiser: The NHS is safe in my hands ....: Oh how we health care professionals across the UK laughed at that bullshit from Cameron because it was either that or cutting our own throa...

SCOT goes POP!: Remember the day Eddie Izzard campaigned with Elai...

SCOT goes POP!: Remember the day Eddie Izzard campaigned with Elai...: There are already doctored photos doing the rounds on Twitter of the Z-list celebrities from the much-mocked 'Let's Stay Together&#3...

SCOT goes POP!: Pro-independence campaign make spectacular breakth...

SCOT goes POP!: Pro-independence campaign make spectacular breakth...: TNS-BMRB have on average been the third most No-friendly out of the six BPC-affiliated firms.  Their last poll showed Yes on a new high wate...

Frankly Independent: National Identity and Social Equality

Frankly Independent: National Identity and Social Equality:              Isobel Lindsay , Vice-Chair of Scottish CND , Convener of Scotland's for Peace and a member of the boar...

SCOT goes POP!: Is that it?! ICM poll the No campaign have been c...

SCOT goes POP!: Is that it?! ICM poll the No campaign have been c...: This month's ICM poll has just been released, and shows only margin of error changes.  The headline numbers are well within the firm&#39...

SCOT goes POP!: ICM poll is better for Yes on the unrounded number...

SCOT goes POP!: ICM poll is better for Yes on the unrounded number...: It's uncanny how often this has happened with ICM - to be fair it's just coincidence/bad luck, but the rounding has yet again flatte...

SCOT goes POP!: Book Club Bonanza

SCOT goes POP!: Book Club Bonanza: I know we all love our anecdotes about finding Yes voters in unexpected places, so I thought you might enjoy this one.  For the last four ye...

Frankly Independent: The Truth about the NHS

Frankly Independent: The Truth about the NHS:              Dr Philippa Whitford         Dr Philippa Whitford, a consultant breast surgeon in Kilmarnock, spoke...

Frankly Independent: Staying in the UK

Frankly Independent: Staying in the UK:              Stephen Paton's helpful little video on What Staying in the United Kingdom Means for Scotland , the UK ...

Tarff Advertiser: Enough is Enough

Tarff Advertiser: Enough is Enough: I have just watched what can only be called an offense against humanity. I was persuaded to view footage of an Israeli drone attack of a fu...

Frankly Independent: A Vote of Confidence

Frankly Independent: A Vote of Confidence:                  A vote of confidence in Scotland in September still looks like a realistic possibility, as yet anot...

Tarff Advertiser: Empty Headed

Tarff Advertiser: Empty Headed: I have seen too many unpleasant sights in my life as part and parcel of my professional career from faces mangled in road traffic accidents...

Frankly Independent: Westminster Takes Note

Frankly Independent: Westminster Takes Note:                   The UK parliament published a note the other day on the non-binding consultative independence refere...

SCOT goes POP!: Support for independence soars to highest ever lev...

SCOT goes POP!: Support for independence soars to highest ever lev...: The new Survation poll for the Daily Record has just been released, and it shows a strikingly similar picture to Sunday's TNS poll, whi...

Tarff Advertiser: The Cost of a Yes vote ...

Tarff Advertiser: The Cost of a Yes vote ...: Sauntering home along the lanes by the Tarff River from Kirkcudbright I began to muse just how much a Yes vote would cost say ..... Alisda...

Frankly Independent: IndyRef Weekly Review 6

Frankly Independent: IndyRef Weekly Review 6:              Stephen Paton's Scottish independence referendum weekly review           Investment in Glasg...

SCOT goes POP!: Believe me when I say to you, I hope the Middlelan...

SCOT goes POP!: Believe me when I say to you, I hope the Middlelan...: Well, it's now official from the BBC website - the unspoofable Tory MP Rory Stewart has abandoned his "Hands Across the Border&quot...

Tarff Advertiser: Willfully Missing the Point

Tarff Advertiser: Willfully Missing the Point: Poor Martin writes this fluff in the Gruniad at the same time as yet another British Establishment cover u...

Tarff Advertiser: May You Live in Interesting Times! (an old Gaelic ...

Tarff Advertiser: May You Live in Interesting Times! (an old Gaelic ...: Take 25% of Sterling's foreign exchange earnings out of this PwC ' Through the Looking Glass ' fantasy and just how screwed is...

SCOT goes POP!: New TNS-BMRB poll shows 2% increase in support for...

SCOT goes POP!: New TNS-BMRB poll shows 2% increase in support for...: Well, the plot thickens.  As we were waiting for a poll in the Sunday Post that No campaign staffers seemed to be crowing about on Twitter,...

Friday, 4 July 2014

Peter A Bell: Please stay: A response to Jim Sillars's essay in ...

Peter A Bell: Please stay: A response to Jim Sillars's essay in ...: Jim Sillars: A concerned grandfather Jim Sillars is, of course, fully justified in being deeply concerned about the consequences for Sc...

SCOT goes POP!: Are Peter Kellner and YouGov Yes Scotland’s hidden...

SCOT goes POP!: Are Peter Kellner and YouGov Yes Scotland’s hidden...: A guest post by Alasdair Stirling YouGov's Peter Kellner has written an extraordinary blog article entitled 'Why Do the Polls in S...

SCOT goes POP!: More on Kellner

SCOT goes POP!: More on Kellner: Just to let you know I've written an article for Newsnet Scotland about this week's ongoing YouGov saga - you can read it HERE .  T...

Tarff Advertiser: If you love your country.

Tarff Advertiser: If you love your country.: Cameron is making yet another ' big speech ' today to save the Union, today's appeal is to the ' silent majority ' of S...