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If there was ever any doubt that questions about independence were going to dominate the political debate in the run up to the Scottish Parliament election in May, this was surely quashed by the launch of the Alba Party on 26th March. Alex Salmond’s announcement that his new party would stand candidates in all of Scotland’s electoral regions, with the aim of persuading SNP supporters to give the party their list votes and deliver an ‘independence supermajority’, has increased the li...

Judging by recent headlines, you’d think the Battle of the Sexes has already been won. Nicola and Meghan will dominate this International Women’s Day – two women so well-known no surnames are required. Every week, First Minister’s Questions features a forthright (if departing) Ruth Davidson tackling a confident (if now battle-scarred) First Minister. Last week when Jackie Baillie, Linda Fabiani and the inimitable Margaret Mitchell led questioning during the harassment inquiry, Sco...

Actually, though it may seem contradictory – the answer could be yes to all the above. Let’s start with the poll commissioned by Scot Goes Pop and published yesterday which suggests more than half of Scottish voters would back the next Holyrood election being used as an “opportunity to vote for or against independence”. James Kelly interprets that as backing for the Plan B option favoured by Chris McEleny and Angus Brendan MacNeil which anticipates that Boris Johnson will “dae an ...

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