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The youth of today and the youth of yesterday
Those delightful chaps over at the No campaign's official Twitter feed seem terribly excited about a new poll of the referendum voting intentions…
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Thankyou for correcting our defective memories, Mr Gove
England's Education Secretary Michael Gove at the Scottish Tory conference a couple of days ago - "There's no question that Scotland cou…
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The first skirmish in the independence battle : winning the consultation numbers game
It goes without saying that Michael Moore's consultation exercise is a farce - to the extent that the outcome is not already pre-determined, it w…
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The distorting average
I know that a number of us feel that John Curtice's polling analysis is now noticeably fairer to the Yes campaign than it was back in the summer …
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Drama as Panelbase release their datasets : it turns out half of the Scottish public want a second indyref within TWO years, not three
As I mentioned in the post about the new Panelbase poll , I was having to take all the information from John Curtice's What Scotland Thinks webs…
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Believe me when I say to you, I hope the Middlelanders love their children too
Well, it's now official from the BBC website - the unspoofable Tory MP Rory Stewart has abandoned his "Hands Across the Border" wheeze …
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Poll commissioned by anti-independence campaign backfires catastrophically, with almost as many people backing independence even when confronted with a leading question
One day, very very soon, we're going to start calling a brass neck a 'McDougall'. Just 24 hours after mocking the Yes campaign for using …
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Sturgeon v the Lib Dems' third choice
I wonder just how much of a realist Alistair Carmichael is. It won't have been a surprise to any of the viewers of tonight's referendum deba…
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Scottish Social Attitudes Survey : contrasting fortunes for what Michael Moore presumes to call "Scotland's two governments"
The latest Scottish Social Attitudes Survey has delivered a crushing blow to the coalition government's claim to be one of "Scotland's t…
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Multiple options for a multi-option referendum
OK, I can't resist, one more outing for AM2-watch. In reply to the comments on his latest post berating all three unionist parties for not gett…
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Yes campaign bounce back to all-time high in first post-debate poll from Survation
Survation have won the race to conduct the first poll since Alex Salmond humbled Alistair Darling in Monday night's BBC debate... Should Scotland…
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An independent Scotland beckons, as Yes campaign close the gap to just 5% in spectacular new Panelbase poll
The third Panelbase referendum poll of 2014 has been released in the last few minutes - and not to put too fine a point on it, it's a cracker. Th…
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Wisdom on Wednesday : It's this simple
"For too many years of my life I have lived under Westminster governments who neither I, nor the majority of Scottish people voted for, and I fa…
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This is one Scot who will not shirk his moral duty
Whenever Blair McDougall takes some rare time out from his internet trolling career to laud an anti-independence rant in the Guardian as "excel…
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Dramatic TNS-BMRB poll shows pro-independence campaign closing the gap to the lowest level so far
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 pollsters…
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The "international socialist movement" and its curious obsession with boundaries
Duncan Hothersall, leading Twitter propagandist for what he fondly describes as "the international labour movement" (better known to us as …
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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 and sham…
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Calling Ms Davidson, calling Ms Davidson : are you paying attention this time?
I'm still trying to get my head round how Ruth Davidson thought she could claim a few weeks ago that "every opinion poll in history" ha…
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A fond (and 'fantastic') farewell to the banned "Vote No Borders" cinema ads
Transcript : George Osborne? Fantastic! The bedroom tax? Fantastic! Tory governments we didn't vote for? Fantastic! Nigel Farage as Deputy Prime …
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Which was less likely - Governor George W Bush of Texas granting clemency to a death row prisoner in 1999, or the unionist parties giving the people a say on their constitutional future in 2007 or 2010?
You have to hand it to the more mindless critics of the SNP and Plaid Cymru - if nothing else, they have their tedious little repertoire well-drilled…
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