thomas

Tactics vs strategy

06/02/2014 thomas 8 Comments

Most modern politicians are great tacticians but lousy strategists. They spend huge efforts on planning the run-up to the next

30/01/2014 thomas 32 Comments

I haven’t discussed the independence referendum opinion polls for a long time, mainly because they haven’t shown a clear picture.

26/01/201427/01/2014 thomas 12 Comments

I get really annoyed at the way the No side constantly try to make people think that voting Yes is

23/01/201424/01/2014 thomas 5 Comments

There was a rather downbeat article by Iain Macwhirter in The Herald today: Scots voted for the SNP by a

22/01/201422/01/2014 thomas 4 Comments

All independence campaigners have been aware of a varying degree of bias in mainstream media (MSM) for a long time.

16/01/201416/01/2014 thomas 7 Comments

The Alternative Vote was defeated because almost nobody really liked this voting system. The LibDems preferred the Single Transferable Vote,

14/01/201414/01/2014 thomas 13 Comments

The following is a reworked and updated version of this old blog post: At the moment, the main reason why