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I want to start by talking about real life. Because all of us, all of us engaged in politics. find real life sometimes embarrassing. ...

This will be my last blog about the Referendum. I'll continue to blog from time to time, but probably not so regularly, about politics. ...

In 2007 Wendy Alexander, recently elected as leader of the Scottish Labour Party in the aftermath of our first defeat by the SNP, decided th...

This is almost certainly my last blog before the big vote itself. I’m conscious that I’m now in a slightly odd position intellectua...

I want to start with two stories. Or rather one piece of history and one anecdote. On 3rd April 1917, V.I. Lenin got off a train at the Fi...

So. There has been a poll and we are on the point of Armageddon. Apparently. For what it is worth I do not believe that if the Referendum...

Since the publication of last week's yougov poll a state somewhat approaching hysteria seems to have descended on the Nationalist camp. ...