UK Polling Favours Boris Johnson And The Tories
Despite a lot of churn in the polls the final week of campaigning in the British general election looks setContinue Reading
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Despite a lot of churn in the polls the final week of campaigning in the British general election looks setContinue Reading
Like others I tend to distinguish between online political campaigning or activism and the offline pounding of pavements and theContinue Reading
It’s extremely rare for blogs or online publications to have any great effect on offline politics which makes the influence Continue Reading
A dire assessment by Ian Blackford, the leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP) in the House of Commons, on theContinue Reading
Two weeks ago the Sunday Mail newspaper in Scotland published details of an investigation into the activities of the InstituteContinue Reading
There is a typically dire, fact-free article on the Scottish language (Scottish Gaelic) in today’s Herald newspaper, penned by theContinue Reading
Talking of the Democratic Unionist Party, in the immediate aftermath of the general election in the United Kingdom, Marco Biagi,Continue Reading
Just a few quick points on last week’s local elections in the United Kingdom and the continuing post-referendum shift inContinue Reading
Not only do the people of Greater England believe that all of the world’s historical empires were bad except for theirContinue Reading
To name a thing is to control a thing. Words have a power beyond the immediate and obvious. The processContinue Reading
These thoughts strike me in relation to the current post-referendum turmoil in Britain, and Scotland in particular. Ireland’s failed Easter RisingContinue Reading
Last November I featured news from Britain on the decision by the Conservative Party government in London to make savage cuts to the public fundingContinue Reading
Following a brief period of relative quiet the haters of Scottish Gaelic are back in full-swing, attacking new education legislationContinue Reading
Well, it’s been a busy week for those who despise the Scottish Gaelic language and the communities which speak it. From attack-stories on government supportContinue Reading
So, another day, another staged controversy drummed up by anglophone supremacists (for which one can read in this case, British nationalists) attackingContinue Reading
Merryn Somerset Webb is a relatively well-known business journalist and editor in the UK who writes on a wide range of financial matters for theContinue Reading
Mhairi Black MP, the left-wing political poster-child of the SNP, writing in Scotland’s pro-independence National newspaper, explaining her opposition toContinue Reading
Sometimes an individual should simply stick to doing what he or she does best. In the case of the BritishContinue Reading
Michael White, the parliamentary correspondent of the nominally centre-left Guardian newspaper in the UK, has gained an unenviable reputation overContinue Reading
Following up on the unexpected results of the UK general election Adrian Kavanagh has examined the barely democratic nature of Britain’s first-past-the-postContinue Reading
Some absolutely astonishing results from the UK general election so far, with the stand-out story being the sweeping of the electoralContinue Reading
My predictions for the general election in the UK (and the north-eastern bit of Ireland that the British stubbornly cling onContinue Reading