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Ipsos Mori poll shows major business leaders nervous of impact of independence

Data from a new Ipsos MORI survey of the corporate sector has revealed that the majority of the leaders of major businesses in Scotland believe that Scottish independence would have a negative impact...

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DVLA staff in one day strike over office closures

Staff at the 39 regional offices of the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) are on a one day strike today in protest at the UK Department for Transport’s plans to close them, centralising the...

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Silly story that SNP mght disband after a hypothetical ‘Yes’ vote in 2014

Stephen Noon, strategist for the ‘Yes’ campaign in the run up to the Independence Referendum in October 2014 seems to have started something of a hare running.He suggested that the SNP might well...

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Least credible statement of the week

This has to be a howling canard from Blair Jenkins, unimpressive head of the ‘Yes’ campaign for Scottish independence.Mr Jenkins said that under an independent Scotland ‘it might well be’ that the...

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The public purse and the ‘Yes’ campaign budget

Recent information on the Scottish Government’s diversion of significant numbers of civil servants to producing ‘work packages’ on different aspects of the independence proposition was already...

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Glasgow University students vote a big majority ‘No’

Glasgow University students, in a much touted and energetically promoted vote to test student opinion on Scottish Independence, showed first that the issue is of little interest to them.Only 13% voted...

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Mull says a big NO to BID

[Updated below} The ballots for the proposed Mull Business Improvement District [BID] were counted yesterday morning [22nd March] – and our broadband outage made us made to bring you the news earlier...

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First Minister reveals dangerous confusions over role of the media

Scotland’s First Minister has made an attack on BBC Scotland that, worryingly, reveals the extent of his own monomania.He has accused the BBC of failing to put across the independence case.It is not...

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Herald loses public trust in publishing Yes Scotland article

The investigation into the clearly widespread journalistic practice of hacking into electronic information and communications systems, netted a revelatory creature from the deep this week.It became...

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New SNP local division

There is news of another split in the already riven local SNP group – with the two local architects of the party’s fearful dash from power said to be ‘at each other’s throats’ – MSP Michael Russell and...

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‘Yes’ campaign meeting in Lochgoilhead to share all points of view

Whatever way you look at it, 2014 is going to be a historic year for Scotland, and, whatever the outcome, the political climate of Scotland will never be the same again.Whatever your political...

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Herald’s ‘senior coalition source’ may have been LABOUR peer

The SNP media team has named Baroness Jay as the person who may be the unnamed source featured in The Herald’s front page splash story of 13th February, inadvertently betraying the possibility of a...

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Scottish Social Attitudes survey shows substantial majority for keeping the...

The 2013 Scottish Social Attitudes Survey – they call it ‘the half-time score’ -  interviewed a probability sample of 1,497 adults, face to face, between 25th June and 23rd October 2013.An immediate...

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SNP report on Sun’s YouGov poll showing Yes to Indy on 1% increase

An SNP media release points to a new YouGov poll, published in today’s Scottish Sun, showing the percentage of declared ‘Yes to Indy’ intentions hitting 40% for the first time since the start of the...

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If you were at the ‘Indy’ debate in Dunoon Burgh Hall tonight, …

..18th December. Tell us about it, using Comments below.We set off to get there in plenty of time, hit a ramp hard at Dunderave, south of Cairndow – and remembered: Transport Scotland are resurfacing...

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The no-no campaign

It would be hard to find a more appropriately named political campaign than  the ‘No’ campaign on Scottish independence.No campaign that aimed to win should ever have been let make so many and such...

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Donors, public money and funding the independence referendum campaigns

Alastair Darling, frontman for the supposedly pro-union campaign that is, in every way, better described as the ‘No’ campaign, has been vociferous in recent days on the subject of the funding of the...

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Galloway ties two mighty albatrosses to the Yes campaign

George Galloway has an ego to outstrip even Alex Salmond’s – but these days there is no comparison in the ability of each to deliver to meet a level of expectation consistent with the size of the...

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Pro-indy event in Tayvallich this Friday

The pro-indy campaign is holding a questions and answers session in the Village Hall in Tayvallich on Loch Sween, this Friday, 4th July at 7pm.Guest speakers are:Michael Russell, Argyll and Bute SNP...

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Getting the governments we vote for?

First Minister, Alex Salmond and the pro-indy campaign, constantly repeat the anti-union mantra that ‘Scotland’ doesn’t get the governments it votes for. This is no more than a ‘dog whistle’...

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