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Better Nation
Let’s do something to stop the Glasgow subway photo ban
3 hours ago
A Burdz Eye View
Guestpost from Mike Small: Bad Food Overdose
4 hours ago
Ideas of Civilisation
What drives a politician's political opinions and actions?
18 hours ago
Barbarian Politics
Chemical Weapon Contamination
1 day ago
Bill Cameron
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau - Obituary
1 day ago
Dispatches from Paisley
A Potted History of The Anointed One’s
5 days ago
Braveheart's Blog
Nationalist Inarticulacy
6 days ago
Nationalist Mythbusting
"Dingbat" strikes again
1 week ago
NoMoraDiaspora
That Doosan thing...
4 weeks ago
Lallands Peat Worrier
Glasgow: A seagull's eye view...
5 weeks ago
Will Patterson
What does the latest poll mean for the May elections?
2 months ago
Not a Village in Westminster
Where now for Scottish Labour?
11 months ago
An Independence Minded Liberal
Freedom and Whisky
MSM blogs
Lesley Riddoch
Unacceptable face of gallery choices
1 hour ago
Alan Cochrane
The medical advice was wrong, but this was no grand deal
16 hours ago
Gerry Hassan
How to make and understand the Case for the Union
1 day ago
Torcuil Crichton
Salmond's challenge on same-sex marriage
1 week ago
Iain Macwhirter
Prondzynski Report: the Principals Fight Back.
2 months ago
Joan McAlpine
Bringing it all back home - The message of Tom Devine's book on Scottish emigration is ultimately a postive one.
8 months ago
Magnus Gardham
The thinnest-skinned MSP in Holyrood
9 months ago
Ian Bell
Scottish Elections: New Politics, Old Pastimes
1 year ago
Brian Taylor
Douglas Fraser
The Steamie
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The battle of Alex Salmond's ego
AS4FM nemesis for FM AS?
Mandate, what mandate?
The tennis nets election
Last week a watershed for Salmond and the SNP?
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Oil stand up for the SNP for a change
A convenient cover story for the Nats
Up the Amazon without a paddle
An April fool can't legitimise an illegal referend...
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Good job it was the Euromillions...
Robbing Paisley (say) to pay Perth
Tommy Sheridan's independence irony
Independence watered down and rebranded. Again.
SNP Government's overwhelming democratic mandate o...
Abuse of a domestic violence analogy
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The (bad) language of Scottish politics
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A final farewell from below the radar screen!
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Boo hoo!
Gesture policing and prosecutions (and political c...
An unethical conflict of interest in upholding eth...
Why not just get on with it?
Cash for honours in medieval Dundee
No, Jade was spot on in context
Murdo's separatist agenda and other ironies
More municipal blame-shifting
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The tram Gathering
Why no Asda 'Roll forward'?
The trams: same old, same old
Elites, experts and narratives
Stalking donkey or thoroughbred contender?
Expect more taxing questions ahead...
The politically correct Dr Starkey(!)
The Bill resurrected in Dundee!
It's that 'community spirit' again!
A statistical crime
The gangsta rap riots?
European uniformity trumps the Scottish national i...
Why no White Riot?
Never mind everything else, let's focus on indepen...
Like Murdoch, like Souter
McLeish defending Salmond or McLeish?
Scotland the banana milkshake republic?
Borrowing an idea from Gordon Brown
Elites, cronyism, and nepotism - it's all relative...
Another big bang in Dundee's Hilltown
A multi-faceted demolition job
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Where Tesco meets politics - every gimmick helps!
Norway and the SNP
You said it, Jenny!
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The Times will be thunderous
Gesture licensing
MacAskill misrepresentation?
Dundee strategic objectives shocker!
Dundee's 'big society'?
Another democratic deficit
News of the screwed
Glasgow's black market in taxi licences
Vanity plate or part of city's heritage?
Power, principle and political promiscuity
Little justification for fiscal autonomy
It's business as usual again
The nation rejects X Factor politics
The essential dilemma
My vote, the John Higgins factor and 'selfhood'
SNP planning presumption?
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