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- Media Watch: Historian's cunning plan for a “third” indy referendum is a Unionist trick 28/10/2026A Unionist historian has come up with a new idea to prevent Scottish independence - the idea of a two-stage independence referendum. The Herald presented the column by Professor Colin Kidd as coming from “one of Scotland’s leading historians” - but they failed to mention that Kidd sits on the board of dark-money-funded, aggressively British […]
- Westminster's sovereign wealth fund admission is a painful lesson for Scots 25/10/2026When UK Chancellor John Healey finally admitted on TV that a UK sovereign wealth fund established in the 1980s would today be worth roughly £1 trillion he was touching on a painful area for Scots. We know what we have lost. We watched UK governments we did not elect squander what should have been Scotland’s […]
- How the UK gov’s decisions are killing off Scotland's 'Just Transition' to renewables 20/10/2026The “just transition” was the promise that, as Scotland phases out North Sea oil and gas production, our workers and communities won't be abandoned as the miners were. The green energy boom was supposed to give Scotland high-paying jobs, lower household bills, and a strong supply chain. People coming out of oil and gas would […]
- UK Parties pledge to dismantle Scotland’s Parliament 14/10/2026Three UK parties are now threatening Scotland’s Parliament. The Conservatives, Reform UK and Restore Britain have all pledged to either abolish Holyrood or to undermine it as a political power base, because they can't win elections here. Any unite-the-right coalition will diminish even the small power that the Scottish Parliament has.
- Burnham's Brexit referendum U-turn will backfire 08/10/2026Andy Burnham has indicated that the United Kingdom can revisit Brexit after 10 years and “we could go all the way” and rejoin the European Union. UK Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy has also said that the “question of Europe was not settled forever”. Quite right. A decade is a long time in politics. Circumstances change, […]
- Wellbeing Economy and Pension policy pushes independence support to 63% 02/10/2026The point of our latest Norstat poll was not simply to ask whether Scotland would vote Yes or No in a referendum held tomorrow. We wanted to test what kind of independence Scotland’s people might actually vote for. Message testing is really important and it needs to be followed up on with focus groups and […]
- Burnham attack on Scottish pensions to fund English Care system backfires 01/10/2026Andy Burnham’s plan to raid Scottish pensions to fund free personal care for English pensioners is going down like cold chips in Scotland. On the podium at the Labour Party conference, the UK PM said he would break the triple lock, which has been very gradually raising the UK state pension since it was introduced […]
- Burnham is wrong - Scotland needs independence to tackle the cost of living 29/09/2026Andy Burnham’s big conference speech had little to offer Scotland. He mentioned Scotland only once - to say that he was determined not to be the last PM of the UK - because it would have upset his dad. Burnham did not mention Scotland’s right to choose its own constitutional future. Last week, a huge […]
- Celtic Exit poll finds Yes rises to almost 60% as national civic movements meet. 29/09/2026New polling has found that support for Scottish independence rises to almost 60% if Scottish voters become convinced that Northern Ireland is moving towards a united Ireland and Wales towards independence.
- New poll finds independence Support rises to 65% with Farage as Prime Minister 24/09/2026Written by Gordon MacIntyre-Kemp Nigel Farage and Reform UK may be generating some pretty bad press in the last few weeks, but nobody should assume that means the possibility of a Reform government has disappeared.