Alex Salmond
Mixed news for SNP with Ipsos-Mori
The latest full-scale Scottish poll conducted by Ipsos-Mori contains sobering news for the SNP on the constituency vote, with Labour's lead incre…
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Alex Salmond
The dark heart of nationalism : personal pronouns
Oooh, nationalism. It has to be said that, even as a nationalist myself, I appear to have a weak understanding of the concept. Fortunately, some of…
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Alex Salmond
I don't want to become a broken record on this subject, but...
From today's Scotsman - "The First Minister yesterday dismissed claims that holding a referendum on voting reform on the same day as the Sc…
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Alex Salmond
Liberal Use of the Wrong Name
Mike Smithson at PoliticalBetting.com is forever complaining about Gordon Brown's irritating tendency to refer to the Liberal Democrats as "…
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Labour are the party in greatest need of allies, whether they realise it or not
Via Joan McAlpine's blog , I've just caught up with the story about a "senior SNP figure" supposedly sounding out Labour about a po…
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Alex Salmond
Memo to Jackanory Jim : be careful what you wish for
Labour have been busily feigning outrage for weeks that Alex Salmond wasn't taking part in two of the three Scottish side-debates, so you'd p…
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"The various claims from the Scottish government raise more questions..."
Or so the US Senator Kirsten Gillibrand has said . I don't think she realises quite what a revealing utterance that is, as she's effectively…
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Alex Salmond
Why is the Scottish government even cooperating in writing with this committee of clowns?
I was going to try to resist the temptation to write yet another full post on almost exactly the same subject as the last one, but it has to be noted…
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American views on compassion are based on "emerging evidence"
USA Today has published an opinion piece on the Megrahi case, which (as you can probably guess without even reading it) is full of the now-familiar…
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Alex Salmond
'Independence is not everything'
A sentiment which many of the fundamentalists within his own party have of course long suspected Alex Salmond of treacherously harbouring, so it'…
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But, alas, democracy still has its critics...
The other day, I suggested that Ian Hamilton was wrong to talk as if Scotland was an occupied country, with the need for some kind of 'revolutio…
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AM2. Discuss and explain.
If anyone ever wants to carry out an academic study into the origins of irrational obsession, they could do far worse than to try to track down that …
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Alex Salmond
Nelson's column
As ever, I'm grateful to Ezio for pointing me in the direction of a Nat-bashing article I might otherwise have overlooked, this time by Fraser Ne…
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SoS opinion poll analysis : compare and contrast
According to Tom Peterkin in Scotland on Sunday , Labour's opinion poll leads of six and five points over the SNP are, in spite of having just b…
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Holyrood's opposition politicians look like (even) smaller people tonight
The last 48 hours or so have provided yet another textbook example of a lack of imagination on the part of opposition politicians in Holyrood, and (t…
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Alex Salmond
Have the Lib Dems just made Alex Salmond's post-election interview that bit easier?
Even when Alex Salmond first set his target of twenty Westminster seats, I think most of us knew that twelve or fifteen - arguably even ten - would b…
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Alex Salmond
AM2. Discuss and explain.
If anyone ever wants to carry out an academic study into the origins of irrational obsession, they could do far worse than to try to track down that …
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Alex Salmond
Holyrood's opposition politicians look like (even) smaller people tonight
The last 48 hours or so have provided yet another textbook example of a lack of imagination on the part of opposition politicians in Holyrood, and (t…
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Alex Salmond
A full and equal partner
Further to my last post, it seems David Maddox at the Steamie has got a distinctly odd definition of the word ‘sinister’. If he thinks a political …
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Alex Salmond
Prejudice cuts both ways
So yet another feature on Newsnight Scotland about anti-English prejudice in Scotland. It was music to my ears when the academic behind the researc…
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