Jan 7, 2025 · My problem with this suggested arrangement is the same as I have with the current one; that flat vote! Any flat vote of the Union’s MPs, the vast majority of them representing the English half of the Union, means that Scotland’s MPs cannot effectively defend the interests of their half of the Union against English-led predation.

Nov 9, 2024 · Ah yes, the US Supreme Court elections. The most eagerly anticipated election results, watched by billions all over the world, closely following all the action on multiple TV stations and online as the votes from US citizens pile up steadily until winners are declared.

Jan 20, 2025 · The wild thing about this poll isn’t the headline that six months after winning a massive landslide majority, Keir Starmer now trails Nigel Farage – leader of a party with five MPs to Starmer’s 411 – as the electorate’s choice for best Prime Minister.. It’s the little grey numbers sitting quietly at the bottom.

Jan 16, 2025 · Way back in the day, the Lib Dems in particular, but also other parties and the “Better Together” campaign, were infamous for the “dodgy barchart” tactic.. And so degraded is the modern SNP, it’s now scraping the same barrel. Here’s a graphic the party’s MSPs have been tweeting this week, made up to look like it came from the polling company Survation:

Jan 11, 2025 · NO EFFIN HOPE!! Swinney just confirmed that in his final remarks. Forbes is the latest ‘snake in the grass’ to pontificate. Her role in the FREEPORTS treachery in tandem with Gove should have set alarm bells ringing right across the country about the SNP’s ability to manage Scotland’s resources in the interests and long term benefit of Scots and Scotland!!

Jan 9, 2025 · The National carried a strange article yesterday, apropos of seemingly nothing, about a Brussels-based political thinktank supposedly linked to the right-wing Prime Minister of Hungary, Viktor Orban.The piece actually originated on superwoke “fact-checking” site The Ferret a couple of days earlier, and professed to expose …

Dec 29, 2024 · Look, we know that mocking front pages on The National is low-hanging fruit, and this particular example could hardly be any more of a self-parody if it tried.. But just for the sheer mental exercise in that stone-dead last week of December when nobody even knows what day it is, let’s imagine if it came true.

Jan 5, 2025 · Nobody really answered the question in this article from a few days ago. A few of the dimmer bulbs in the indy movement have been getting over-excited at what are still currently a couple of outlier polls from fringe polling companies, which suggest that the 2026 election could unexpectedly return a pro-indy majority due to the Unionist vote being split four ways in the wake of UK Labour’s ...

Dec 17, 2024 · The Scottish Government just issued another response in the long-running Freedom Of Information battle with alert Wings reader Benjamin Harrop over its conspiracy to frame and imprison the late Alex Salmond on false charges. Here’s a genuine extract. Yeah, definitely nothing to hide here. The release came a couple of days after the Scottish Information Commissioner, who has been trying to ...

2 days ago · For 10 years in Germany between 1935 and 1945, Jewish people were not legally human.The Nuremberg Laws, drafted in large part by Wilhelm Stuckart, established the principle in law that Jews were to be denied any rights on the basis that they were untermensch, a German word literally meaning “subhuman”.. It would be, to say the least, highly controversial for anyone to put forward in 2025 ...