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August 2023
Let's Look at What You Could Have Won
Kate Forbes is positioning herself as an alternative to Humza Yousaf's failing leadership. A snapshot poll for this newsletter suggests that voters…
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Blair McDougall
Psst! It's GERS Day.
As the latest finance figures underline the benefits of being part of a redistributive union, a former SNP MSP says British intelligence are behind the…
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Blair McDougall
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A Force for Nothing Good
The far right are using the constitutional debate as their latest disguise. No decent person who supports Scotland's place in the UK should go anywhere…
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Blair McDougall
Waiting for Change
A bombshell Freedom of Information disclosure and a Humza Yousaf gaffe pose huge questions for the SNP's General Election Strategy. Plus: planes, trains…
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Blair McDougall
2
NoNSense: The Vow Was Not A Lie
Nationalists can't accept that we rejected nationalism and so have to pretend that we were conned. They us to think they lack power to avoid…
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Blair McDougall
Pulling Off a Plaster
The first day of the Rutherglen by-election told a story about the fortunes of the challengers. Plus: Robin Harper goes from Green to Reds.
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Blair McDougall
July 2023
What the Eck?
Salmond's resurgence is the surest sign of how big the crisis of nationalism is. Kate Forbes joining his end-of-the-pier show should kill the idea that…
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Blair McDougall
4
Stop Talking Down This Newsletter
The SNP need a new soundbite. They look silly. Plus Labour and the two child cap.
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Blair McDougall
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Bully for Him
Research of new SNP members public shows Humza Yousaf's party still has a serious problem with abuse in its ranks. Will the new leader do what the last…
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Blair McDougall
1
Behind You.
New polls suggest the is SNP losing hundreds of thousands of voters to Labour. How can they harness what feels like a moment of change?
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Blair McDougall
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June 2023
Filling the Hole With Water
Politics has to be better than causing problems so you can exploit them.
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Blair McDougall
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