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Media Watch: Times Scotland front page headline changed online after legal rubbishing
Frontpage headlines rarely cause laughter - unless on comics like the Broons. But listeners to the press review on BBS Radio Scotland’s Sunday Show last weekend may have chuckled as reviewers joked about the Sunday Times Scotland's latest anti-independence splash. Separately, a law professor condemned the editorial team behind the weekend’s splash headlines as “deeply unserious people” “more interested...
Top lawyer: UK refusal to negotiate with Scotland on independence “undemocratic”
Rising star in the field of Scottish and UK law Sionaidh Douglas-Scott, who is a fellow at Princeton in the US, argues the UK government risks undermining the rule of law and should change its stance to allow a referendum on Scottish independence. In a hard-hitting legal analysis in the current issue of Prospect magazine, Douglas-Scott writes: "The UK government’s...
Scotland scunnered with rule by House of so-called “Lords”
A proposal that Scotland’s Secretary of State Alister Jack should postpone taking up his controversial peerage until the next general election in order to avoid a by-election in his marginal seat of Dumfries and Galloway is being condemned as an attempt to play the system, in a new scandal for the UK’s unelected Upper House. Disgraced former PM Boris...
Ten things you need to know about the Supreme Court judgment - and the response
The UK Supreme Court jugment that the Scottish government doesn’t have the legal right to hold a referendum is a huge milestone in the road to independence. It gives clarity over the nature of the Union; it ends this potentially time-consuming legal stage promptly and puts the question of Scotland’s independence firmly back into the political sphere. Here are ten...
Two-thirds of Scots think the UK will not exist in ten years, Ipsos polling shows
Almost two-thirds of Scots say the UK will break up within a decade, and half think it will take just five years, according to a new poll by Ipsos Mori. Half of Scots want Scotland to vote for independence, with another 4% saying they don’t mind either way. And despite the constant onslaught by Unionist politicians and media, most Scots...
One party's vision for Scotland - five takeaways from the Greens' report on Scottish Independence
Believe in Scotland will share summaries of main parties' priorities for an independent Scotland as their proposals are released. The Scottish Greens produced the first in a series of “green papers” setting out its vision for an independent Scotland last week, titled: "Independence: For people, for planet". The Greens are a junior member of Scotland’s government - but the...
Keir Starmer's "car crash" interview dooms Labour in Scotland
Labour leader Keir Starmer set out his pitch to Scotland on BBC’s flagship politics show “the Sunday Show” at the weekend. It was widely regarded as a car crash. Columnist Lesley Riddoch wrote: " a stumbling Keir Starmer hit the brick wall of Scottish political reality with a bang on TV on Sunday". Starmer denied that Scotland has a...
FACT: When Scotland rejoins the EU we won't have to use the Euro
Would an independent Scotland have to use the euro? The answer is “No”. Nicola Sturgeon was correct when she told Douglas Ross this today - but that doesn’t prevent Scotland’s Unionist politicians and media doing their best to spread confusion. The Times headline today was “Join the euro or your EU dream dies, Sturgeon told”. It is technically...
Ten reasons to be confident of independent Scotland's economic future
Scotland is at a crossroads - should it remain as a region of a stagnant, Brexit-bound UK economy - or step out confidently into an independent future? Last week the Scottish government published a report on how an independent Scotland can build a strong economy, one that is fairer, greener, stronger and considers the wellbeing of the nation as well...
Snap General Election would make SNP official Westminster opposition
Polling by YouGov has indicated that if a snap general election were called, the SNP would be the official party of opposition in Westminster following a crushing defeat for the Tories. This is based on opinion polling for the UK and Scotland which shows Labour would win 529 seats with a majority of 408, the SNP would become the second...