A taste of what we're up against.

SNP candidates are making full use of independence as an electioneering device. Naturally, this is raising expectations. Expectations which are not going to be met.

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The interesting bit You could be forgiven for having failed to notice, but there is an election campaign going on at the moment.

Being pro-independence isn’t enough any more.

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When all is said and done It’s Sunday, and we are 18 days away from polling day in the 2026 Scottish general election.

A lot of pro-independence voters are going to be frustrated, disappointed, resentful, and angry when it becomes impossible to pretend that Scotland’s cause is going to make any progress within the next parliamentary term.

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The market has been useless at what you might call ‘social pricing’. I am no longer content to leave them to it when people can’t eat.

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Rally for what? I sympathise with a sentiment expressed by Lesley Riddoch in her column in today’s National. She writes, “…when you’re fed up making a point repeatedly, others may only have just started to really lis...

Nobody is denying our right of self-determination. It is our access to that right that is being denied.

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Let's start at the very beginning. A very good place to start.

Abbi Garton-Crosbie says, “visibility shapes ambition”. That is doubtless true. But it is not a solution.

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Thanks, Wes! I would like to begin by expressing my gratitude to the Rt Hon Wes Streeting MP Secretary of State for Health and Social Care in the British (English) parliament.

You'd think a cabinet minister saying something stupid would be controversial in itself.

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The deadline to register to vote in the Scottish Parliament election is midnight on Monday 20 April.

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Seesaws of the mind The expression ‘in two minds’ has taken on a particular poignancy of late.

As things stand, the only notable thing about this election is how unremarkable it is.

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You would think so. But while I would never vote for a Unionist party, I consider the thought of voting for the SNP equally repugnant on account of what John Swinney proposes to do. Voting for the Alliance is acceptable, but it is rather pointless.

There is not a word about what they intend to do to advance Scotland’s cause. That’s pretty much the story of this election. If like me you take the constitutional issue seriously, there is nothing for you in this election.

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Jist sayin'

What's the rush? I have long maintained that restoration of Scotland’s independence is a matter of the utmost urgency.

Left in the hands of the SNP and the rest of the independence industry, the fight to restore Scotland’s independence will wither and die.

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EuropeanPowell (@europeanpowell) Keir Starmer’s government partnership with Blackrock will, as I have said many times over, privatise the UK. Everything is up for grabs Blackrock’s ’Infrastructure Imperative’ is targeting green spa...

This must be stopped.

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The wrong door I see Alan Crocket is again peddling his supposed simple solution to the constitutional conundrum through the letters page of The Sunday National. It’s nonsense, of course. But no explanation of why i...

The British state is aware that it cannot deny our right of self-determination, as such an action would contravene international law.

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The pronoun wars rumble on with the anti-science lobby using all the old tactics.

US searches for missing crew member as Iran urges public to find ‘enemy pilot’ THE US military is pressing ahead in a frantic search for a missing pilot after Iran shot down an American warplane and called on people to turn the…

"They don't like it up 'em!" - Lance Corporal Jack Jones, Dad's Army

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Mortar decay and Armageddon I’m grateful to Stuart Campbell at Wings Over Scotland for sharing this video of an exchange on the fairly simple question of whether men can get pregnant between Republican Senator Josh Hawley and OB...

If those controlling mass communication can manipulate basic concepts like sexual differentiation, they can similarly alter categories such as true and false, right and wrong, and moral and immoral.

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This is not for Stephen Kerr I found myself today on the verge of responding to Stephen Kerr because my painkiller-addled mind mistook him for Chris McEleny.

That the SNP would continue to dominate was known with a very high degree of certainty more than a year ago.

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Trump's delusional speech Supreme Leader Trump’s primetime delusional speech last night on Operation Epstein Fury was, as one social media post put it:

Trump's delusional speech
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The goat died in vain If the matter were not so serious, there might be some amusement in watching the various forms of fantasy politics being played in below-the-line comments on the article in The National headlined How ...

The constitutional issue has been reduced to just another political football to be kicked around by players all looking to score for themselves and their ‘team’.

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The attacks on Iran are going really well for the United States It's going really well, right?

The attacks on Iran are going really well for the United States
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Keir Starmer silent on Israel's death penalty law targeting Palestinians KEIR Starmer has remained silent after Israel imposed a death penalty for Palestinian prisoners.

What a despicable specimen of corrupt and cowardly humanity Starmer is! Vile!

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Weary but thrawn I was not at yesterday’s march and rally in Edinburgh. I am not physically able to do that kind of thing any more. But I wouldn’t have attended even if I had been fit to do so. It was my dodgy knees a...

We’re not on a route to independence. That’s why Swinney and the rest are so reluctant to show you the map they are using.

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None at all for a Scottish nationalist like myself. Particularly as I live in John Swinney's constituency. My vote would be seen as a direct endorsement of his atrocious 'strategy'. I just can't do that.

Be careful what you vote for! Once again I must ask in all seriousness, so what?

Be careful what you vote for!
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Not as exciting as it looks Checking out polling for the 2026 Scottish general election, it occurred to me that the above graphic made it look like it should be quite an exciting affair.

I can sympathise with the frustration evident in Ruth’s column. There is a powerful sense that this is a critical time for Scotland’s cause.

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Almost getting there Yesterday, I did something I don’t often do; I watched a YouTube video.

Asserting powers in relation to the constitution is a de facto declaration of independence, because when you have power over the constitution, you have power over everything.

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Time is running out There is another fine letter in The National today from Mike Wallace. I make no apology for reproducing that letter here in full in the hope that it might reach a wider audience.

The doctrine of parliamentary sovereignty precludes Westminster transferring to a devolved parliament powers which supersede its own.

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