The debate for Scotland gets ugly
With less than three weeks to go until polling day, the climate around Scotland’s referendum on independence has taken an ugly turn.
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The right is split – good news for the left
David Cameron, the Member for Brussels Central, has run out of ways to lie to his eurosceptic backbenchers – rejoice!
Accepting Carswell with open arms is actually a massive risk for UKIP
It has gone unnoticed, but accepting a genuine libertarian who disregards party loyalists is actually a really bad move for UKIP
Censorship will not consign Jihadism to the dustbin of history
Our government’s lunge for censorship suggests a fear among both officialdom and elected representatives that our society cannot defend itself against bad ideas
Disaffection with democracy and what political parties must do about it
Disaffection is a perennial problem for politics; the way democracy is understood contributes to that problem
Alex Salmond’s oil predictions aren’t so slick after all
Has Alex Salmond wildly overestimated the part of oil in his independent utopia?
Yes Scotland’s NHS scares and lies strategy
The Yes campaign has borrowed one of New Labour’s best tricks, and not in a good way.
Don’t put it past Gove –the founder of Carphone Warehouse really could be the next chair of Ofsted
The Tory donor has his own academy chain and a financial interest in selling technology to schools: what could possibly go wrong?
The Scottish referendum debate is doing the public an injustice
Describing Scotland as being ‘captive’ or ‘oppressed’ is patronising and insulting to the entire country.
Land-banking property owner gives Tories £300,000
A property developer that sits on land instead of building on it has given £300,000 to the Tories.