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An important message from the radical left : 1) leave Emma Thompson alone, and 2) become a communist.
I think I may have just received my favourite ever response to one of my attempts at a semi-humorous tweet. This is what I said - "During the i…
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Latest EU referendum telephone poll shows slight improvement for Leave
It's been ages since I last posted anything about EU referendum polling, which is probably just as well, because I've been exasperated at the…
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No, Lady Hermon's support does not give the government a DUP-proof majority
There's a rather odd little article on the New Statesman website by Patrick Maguire, claiming that Lady Hermon's announcement that she will …
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Schrodinger's No Regulatory Divergence
I've just been catching up with the fudge on Northern Ireland that looks set to save the Brexit negotiations - but at what price? My first react…
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Unveiling the Scot Goes Pop Poll of Polls for the EU referendum
I know this falls into the category of "he would say that, wouldn't he", but I always felt that the Poll of Polls I ran on this blog du…
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Survation sing a song of satisfying solidity as support for independence remains above September 2014 level
Mr George Eaton's recent musings on Scottish opinion polling are an excellent example of how certain journalists, through either laziness or mali…
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Drama as Survation reports that Remain's lead has dropped to just SIX points - unusually low for a telephone poll
It's beginning to look like the signs over the weekend and Monday that Remain were pulling clear in the EU referendum may have been illusory. Ho…
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Leave campaign receive big boost in landmark ComRes telephone poll
As you'll remember, the Leave campaign took the lead in a telephone poll last week. That was a genuinely sensational result, because all previou…
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New podcast
Just a quick note to let you know that myself and Peter Arnott are the guests on this week's edition of the Newsnet podcast, hosted by Maurice S…
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And this is why Indyref 2 is not going away...
As you may have seen, the House of Commons has just voted on an amendment to the Queen's Speech, tabled by Labour MP Chuka Umunna, calling on the…
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VOTE : Have you changed your mind about the EU referendum?
A few months ago, I posed the EU referendum question in a readers' poll, and was quite startled that there was an overwhelming vote (in the regio…
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A progressive alliance may soon be needed more than ever
Just a quick note to let you know that I have a new article at the TalkRadio website, about how last week's High Court ruling could turn out to b…
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There's a difference between disempowerment and democracy
Given the reaction to John McDonnell brandishing Mao's Little Red Book yesterday, it's probably not the best idea for me to start quoting Kar…
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Extremist Leadsom reaches the final two after novel "Vote for Gove so he can be given a damn good thrashing" pitch fails to resonate
Conservative leadership election, second ballot : Theresa May 199 (60.5%) Andrea Leadsom 84 (25.5%) Michael Gove 46 (14.0%) Michael, you have been ev…
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So where now?
For the first time yesterday, I briefly came to the conclusion that the balance of probability slightly favoured a Leave victory. I was very surpris…
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On the forthcoming independence polls
The former Labour MP Eric Joyce has a piece at Wings Over Scotland arguing that there should be a very quick independence referendum provided that t…
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Do the Tory Brexiteers care more about Brexit than they do about their own careers?
Reading the front page story in the Sunday Times today, I could for the first time just about start to see a semi-plausible scenario under which a &…
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A right of reply to Pete Wishart: why "losing is not an option" is an immature belief that would lead to the quiet death of the independence cause
As you may have seen doing the rounds on Twitter, the letters page of this month's iScot magazine contains a contribution from Pete Wishart MP, …
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Britain could be on the brink of leaving the EU, as ICM online AND phone polls give Leave a decent lead
Until now, it's been possible to believe that the apparent spectacle of phone polls moving sharply in favour of Leave was illusory. There had on…
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Should the SNP's strategy be to dare the UK government to reject a realistic proposal for Scotland to remain in the UK?
Just a passing thought : in the light of Philip Hammond helpfully pushing Scotland towards independence by declaring that it will be impossible for u…
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