More powers evitable
We see many headlines at the moment proclaiming that more powers for the Scottish Parliament are inevitable after a No
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Why is devo-max so popular?
According to the Scottish Social Attitudes Survey (PDF), 32% of Scots agree that “the UK government should make decisions about
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You cannot step into the same river twice
There was a rather downbeat article by Iain Macwhirter in The Herald today: Scots voted for the SNP by a
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Voting No for change doesn’t work
The Alternative Vote was defeated because almost nobody really liked this voting system. The LibDems preferred the Single Transferable Vote,
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The powers we need
The unionists sometimes talk about the extra powers Scotland will get if we vote No. Apart from the fact that
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Thatcher on Scottish independence
In Margaret Thatcher’s “The Downing Street Years”, she has this to say about Scottish independence: If [the Tory Party] sometimes
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More devolution will never happen
The Scottish Parliament Originally uploaded by mariancraig Sometimes you find interesting articles in unexpected places. For instance, The Sun carried
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