The BBC presenter, Jackie Bird, has been the recipient of sustained online abuse from a coterie of SNP supporters since the Referendum. There is certainly a justifiable perception of bias in the BBC but this is an editorial policy and not one made by presenters. The SNP
Read more →The seeds of last Thursday’s decimation at the Polls of Scottish Labour were germinating long before the 2014 Referendum. Worried by the rise of the Nationalists in the Seventies, the late John Smith, one of Labour’s sharpest thinkers, saw critically limited devolution as the solution. His prodigy,
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Scottish Labour and, by extension, Ed Milliband may well be the net losers in the wake of the Scottish Referendum. It is being hit by the double whammy of mass defection in its heartland constituencies to the YES campaign and being ensnared by the Tories in failure
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