Is Fife a kingdom, and is Scotland a country?
Fife is a bonnie part of Scotland, but obviously when it’s called the Kingdom of Fife it’s just a way
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Author: Tam
“There would be little point in the SNP as a party”
In a blog post about a speech by Michael Moore on the Liberal Democrat Voice website, LibDem activist Caron Lindsay
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The flatness of the polls
The Panelbase poll that was published today was basically another independence referendum opinion poll that didn’t register any statistically valid
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The anglocentric media and the London Scots
Yesterday the Herald published two articles that both contained interesting observations about the way Scotland and the independence referendum are
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Skintland and my mum
My mum was chairman of the local constituency Social Democratic party in Denmark for decades, so she is quite politically
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Quis persuadebit ipsos persuasores?
There was an interesting wee exchange of opinions on Twitter today: Susan Stewart (ex-director of communications for Yes Scotland): Step
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Higher taxes, but more money in your pocket, too
When people discuss proposals such as the Common Weal, you often hear complaints that taxes would have to be sky-high
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