Between a rock and a hard place
The Scottish MPs from the Unionist parties are finding themselves in an increasingly difficult position as a Yes vote seems
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Month: April 2014
If we don’t get a Yes this time, we might end up like Catalonia
There is a school of thought that the independence referendum is happening too soon, before the Scottish public has been
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An absolute mess?
I had a wee Twitter conversation with a political blogger based in England a few days ago, discussing the consequences
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Going to the pub after independence
Better Together have been circulating an illustration of beer prices on Twitter today. It seems to be based on figures
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The rUK is already another country
My dear wife and I used to read The Economist and Private Eye regularly, and we watched the Andrew Marr
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Fisking Lord Robertson’s cataclysmic speech
I thought I would do a quick fisk of Lord Robertson’s Brookings speech. The following is based on the partial
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English newspapers in an independent Scotland
When I moved to Scotland twelve years ago, I had to find myself a daily newspaper to read. I tried
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