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Craig Murray , on his unsuccessful attempt to become an SNP Parliamentary candidate for Westminster: "I was asked at assessment wheth...

This lament by Iain Dall MacKay was composed on hearing of the death of Patrick Og MacCrimmon - a family famous for its piping tradition w...

"Labour is paying a heavy price for leading the recent campaign against independence, and persuading the Scottish people they’d be be...

Last week's Scottish referendum has lit a match to other firecrackers in this country and elsewhere - Belgium and Spain, for example. Bu...

  http://i4.dailyrecord.co.uk/incoming/article4265480.ece/alternates/s615b/1.jpg  On 15th September 2014, the leaders of the three...

‘What price the union?’ said one senior Conservative MP angered by the last-ditch offers to the Scots. ‘And why is Gordon Brown the tail-...

Genuine? If so, on what scale? htp: Karl Denninger READER: PLEASE CLICK THE REACTION BELOW - THANKS! All original material is copy...

"How shall I be sad on my wedding day?" (at 48:40) It's not business as usual today. As Professor Vernon Bogdanor said las...

If Scotland were an independent country today, should her people vote to give up self-government and be ruled from Westminster? Your reaso...

Q1. Reduce the following article from 1,590 words to 650 or fewer. Q2. "The union... has endured since 1707." Respond, with ref...

It's not about Alex, even though Mail columnist Jan Moir angled her coverage of the referendum to make it a vote on his sexual attracti...

"With one bound Jock was free"   (pic source)   Imagine starting a country with no National Debt, a balanced budget and...

As I comment on AKHaart's preceding piece: I think it's coming anyway. The panic last-minute promises from HMG are a gift to the Y...

1. Why is the pound such an issue? If Blair had had his way we'd all be in the Euro now. 2. Why worry about Scotland's dysfunction...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2726381/JAN-MOIR-Salmond-s-fatal-flaw-We-women-think-s-got-charm-turnip.html Write the rest o...

Electoral Calculus is currently predicting a 40-seat majority for Labour in the 2015 General Election: Layout slightly modified; page a...

I don't know how I missed this... "The proposal to appoint specific named persons from the NHS and councils to monitor every you...

I've previously noted the unfairness of the UK electoral voting system in Scotland, which gives Labour an unearned majority there: ...

The UK has big flaws built into its system of democratic representation - and within the UK, Scotland's is worse. Should the two countri...

I've already suggested that if it secedes from the UK, Scotland might seize the opportunity to remain outside the EU (rather than suffe...