Ceterum censeo Caledoniam esse independentem
Everybody seems to be delighted by the Scottish Government’s legislative programme, which Nicola Sturgeon announced today. I’m not happy, though.
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SNP
Winning over the No–Remain voters
The British Election Study team has produced some really interesting graphs showing how the four main groups of Scottish voters
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Is the SNP suffering from acute Labouritis?
All political parties over a certain size are essentially coalitions. Their members generally agree on some questions but disagree wildly
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Election reflexions
The SNP has lost a lot of excellent MPs, and Westminster will be poorer without them. Amongst them, my local
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The irrelevance of the main political axis of the 20th century
In most democracies, politics in the past century was dominated by two large parties – a socialist or social-democratic party
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There’s more than one way to do it!
Some of my fellow Nats seem to be going rather mental about the crowd-funded anti-BBC billboards. I have a few
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The Blue Tribe of Scotland
I thought I’d have a closer look at the four tribes of Scotland as described in my two earlier blog
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