Tommy Ball's Blog: Jackie Baillie and my granny

Tommy Ball's Blog: Jackie Baillie and my granny: In 2005, my grandmother was diagnosed with throat cancer. She'd just turned seventy, and in many other countries, it would have been co...

SCOT goes POP!: On the plus side, everyone who has ever worked for...

SCOT goes POP!: On the plus side, everyone who has ever worked for...: Just spotted that I got a glowing mention a few hours ago on the Twitter account of J K Rowling's abusive and misogynistic friend (but ...

SCOT goes POP!: More on that totally coincidental link between J K...

SCOT goes POP!: More on that totally coincidental link between J K...: As you may have seen, I was highly privileged yesterday to briefly attract the attention of the unholy alliance between abusive CyberBrits a...

Tarff Advertiser: Coslads ... Labour's last fiefdom in Scotland

Tarff Advertiser: Coslads ... Labour's last fiefdom in Scotland: Labour's last bastion in Scotland, Cosla, is squealing, like the herd of stuck pigs they are, that Mr Swinney is, " Jist no play...

SCOT goes POP!: Panelbase hints that the gap between Holyrood and ...

SCOT goes POP!: Panelbase hints that the gap between Holyrood and ...: It's been brought to my attention that deep within the Panelbase datasets there seems to be the equivalent of a full-scale Scottish poll...

Tarff Advertiser: Record misdirecting ....

Tarff Advertiser: Record misdirecting ....: Wings are off on one again as the good Reverend rips into the paper that uses untreated, used toilet paper, molded by minions in Mancheste...

Peter A Bell: No negativity

Peter A Bell: No negativity: Having read the headline over Iain Macwhirter's article in the Herald , I scoured what followed looking for some statement from Nicola ...

Sunday, 24 January 2016

Peter A Bell: Wrong narrative

Peter A Bell: Wrong narrative: All of this from Pete Wishart, Tommy Sheppard and others might make some kind of sense if anybody was actually pressing for an immediate se...

SCOT goes POP!: Punchy Panelbase poll puts SNP lead at 29%

SCOT goes POP!: Punchy Panelbase poll puts SNP lead at 29%: Constituency ballot : SNP 50% (-2) Labour 21% Conservatives 17% (+3) Liberal Democrats 6% Greens 3% UKIP 2% Regional list ballot : S...

Munguin's Republic: YOU'VE HEARD OF THE TEA PARTY?

Munguin's Republic: YOU'VE HEARD OF THE TEA PARTY?: WELL THIS IS THE HAMILTON LABOUR TEA-CAKE PARTY This, ladies and gentlemen, I am reliably informed, is a bunch of Labour canvassers in ...

SCOT goes POP!: On the progress of "the movement"

SCOT goes POP!: On the progress of "the movement": Denise made an interesting suggestion on the previous thread.  She reckons that the recent "Scottish blog wars" (of which the tota...

The Calum Maclean Project: The Grey Dog of Meoble

The Calum Maclean Project: The Grey Dog of Meoble: No part of the Highlands and Islands seems to have a shortage of supernatural legends, some of which have a connection with animals. The ...

Peter A Bell: Just Jim

Peter A Bell: Just Jim: Jim Sillars is very popular. He is, with some justification, regarded as a stalwart of the independence movement. For this reason, there is...

Tarff Advertiser: Treaty or Act?

Tarff Advertiser: Treaty or Act?: It has been pleasing to read the growing number of informed letters to the National on the subject of the Treaty of Union, in the light of...

Tarff Advertiser: Snaw Bad or is it?

Tarff Advertiser: Snaw Bad or is it?: I have to admit a degree of disappointment when it comes to the ' Snaw ' coating most of Scotia this weekend as I have yet to read...

SCOT goes POP!: By-election boost for sizzling SNP in hallowed Ham...

SCOT goes POP!: By-election boost for sizzling SNP in hallowed Ham...: There can't be another town in Scotland that says "by-election" quite like Hamilton, and there was certainly no disappointment...

Lallands Peat Worrier: Justice, divided?

Lallands Peat Worrier: Justice, divided?: A niche interest, perhaps, but let's talk about Holyrood's Justice Committee . Christine Grahame's committee often pops up on...

SCOT goes POP!: EXCLUSIVE : Read the article on "tactical voting" ...

SCOT goes POP!: EXCLUSIVE : Read the article on "tactical voting" ...: If your blogger sounds thoroughly hacked off today, there's a very good reason for that.  Yesterday, Mike Small of Bella Caledonia claim...

Sunday, 17 January 2016

Tommy Ball's Blog: The price of a Rise vote is a Unionist MSP

Tommy Ball's Blog: The price of a Rise vote is a Unionist MSP: The number of votes cast for the major parties on the List vote in Glasgow in 2011 are as follows: SNP                  83.109 Scotti...

SCOT goes POP!: The increasingly disturbing attempts to pathologis...

SCOT goes POP!: The increasingly disturbing attempts to pathologis...: On St Andrew's Day 2010, I (along with a number of other bloggers) received a mysterious email "announcing an independence referend...

SCOT goes POP!: SNP lead by 31% in supremely scrumptious Survation...

SCOT goes POP!: SNP lead by 31% in supremely scrumptious Survation...: Considering how close we are to the potentially hugely important fifth election to the Scottish Parliament, we haven't exactly been spoi...

Thursday, 14 January 2016

Tarff Advertiser: Scotplod vs CNDScot

Tarff Advertiser: Scotplod vs CNDScot: Let us start from a known and that is Scotplod would know exactly who should be driving the CNDScot vehicle as they would have called up al...

SCOT goes POP!: If you want to, I'll change the situation. Right ...

SCOT goes POP!: If you want to, I'll change the situation. Right ...: A Scot Goes Pop reader found this Tory leaflet dropped through her letterbox in Upper Largo last night, beseeching her to ca...

Dear Jeremy /

Dear Jeremy / [A plea for a federal UK @No thanks #Re-independence non-negotiable]

The Mo' Flo' Mojo: Indyref 2020

The Mo' Flo' Mojo: Indyref 2020: The 700th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Arbroath will occur on April 6th, 2020. This document contains many stirring pa...

SCOT goes POP!: The SNP manifesto shouldn't just "not rule out" a ...

SCOT goes POP!: The SNP manifesto shouldn't just "not rule out" a ...: You may have seen earlier this evening that within two minutes of the Sunday Herald tweeting that they had a story about the SNP manifesto ...

SCOT goes POP!: The SNP manifesto shouldn't just "not rule out" a ...

SCOT goes POP!: The SNP manifesto shouldn't just "not rule out" a ...: You may have seen earlier this evening that within two minutes of the Sunday Herald tweeting that they had a story about the SNP manifesto ...

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CYNqid_WwAQsw1O.jpg:large (600x450 pixels) [BritNat trash talk from BritLab's uber-Unionist, Susan Dalgetly trash talks SNP]

Munguin's Republic: A COUPLE OF THOUGHTS FROM YESTERDAY'S NEWS

Munguin's Republic: A COUPLE OF THOUGHTS FROM YESTERDAY'S NEWS: Presiding over slowest recovery since 1830, whilst doubling UK debt to £1.5 trillion! And all the bad stuff is the fault of the Chinese,...

Munguin's Republic: A COUPLE OF THOUGHTS FROM YESTERDAY'S NEWS

Munguin's Republic: A COUPLE OF THOUGHTS FROM YESTERDAY'S NEWS: Presiding over slowest recovery since 1830, whilst doubling UK debt to £1.5 trillion! And all the bad stuff is the fault of the Chinese,...

Tommy Ball's Blog: Preview of 2016

Tommy Ball's Blog: Preview of 2016: May I wish you all all the best for the upcoming year.  It promises to be another seismic one in Scotland, the latest in a series of de...

SCOT goes POP!: The Glasgow Effect : why do the anti-independence ...

SCOT goes POP!: The Glasgow Effect : why do the anti-independence ...: Just a quick note to let you know that I have a new article at the International Business Times , about the controversy over the awarding of...

SCOT goes POP!: Spoiler alert : There are no spoilers. We don't k...

SCOT goes POP!: Spoiler alert : There are no spoilers. We don't k...: There's yet another "tactical voting on the list" (sic) article out today, this time from Fraser Stewart at Common Space .  Th...

The Fall of Scottish Labour - BBC Scotland documentary 22nd June 2015

The Fall of Scottish Labour - BBC Scotland documentary 22nd June 2015

SCOT goes POP!: The BBC's guidelines for Holyrood election don't m...

SCOT goes POP!: The BBC's guidelines for Holyrood election don't m...: I'm finding it hard to work myself up into my customary state of moral outrage over the BBC's (provisional) decision about which par...

Tairis: Book review: Celtic Cosmology: Perspectives from I...

Tairis: Book review: Celtic Cosmology: Perspectives from I...: Celtic Cosmology: Perspectives from Ireland and Scotland Edited by Jacqueline Borsje, Ann Dooley, Séamus mac Mathúna, and Gregory Toner ...

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