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Edinburgh welcomes UKIP

By Max Crema - reproduced courtesy of ScotsPolitics.com In the tightly controlled and pre-tested world of politics it’s not often that ...

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Farage and the Farrago of lies

  By G.A.Ponsonby  A band of hard line Scottish nationalists this week turned on UKIP leader Nigel Farage, forcing the ...

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Ukip-Tory UK not for confederalists

By George Kerevan  THINGS are afoot in England. A quarter of English voters now support Ukip – a right wing, ...

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Edinburgh welcomes UKIP

By Max Crema - reproduced courtesy of ScotsPolitics.com
 
In the tightly controlled and pre-tested world of politics it’s not often that an event occurs which doesn’t fit into a narrative. A company will go bust and left-leaning papers will decry deregulation while their counterparts demand more. A speech will occur, a bill will be passed, a by-election will be won and you can easily predict the media packaging and allegiance for each event.
 
However, sometimes the narrative doesn’t fit.

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Scotland Inspires Me

By Gordon S. Kerman
 
I had heard about Scotland all my life, growing up in a Canadian family with a Scottish mum, whom I call M.  Before leaving Canada I travelled the length and breadth of it, from British Columbia to Nova Scotia and Dawson City, Yukon Territories to the border of the United States and beyond.

My first holiday in Scotland was in August 1995 for a two-week period.  I was immediately taken by how different and beautiful the country was in comparison to Canada.

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Ukip-Tory UK not for confederalists

By George Kerevan
 
THINGS are afoot in England. A quarter of English voters now support Ukip – a right wing, populist party that has its roots in the values and nostalgia of Middle England.
 
Boris Johnson wants the income from council tax, business rates and stamp duty devolved to the London Assembly – perfectly justifiable, but a body blow to the argument the Union is about fiscal sharing, as the metropolis is the richest part of the UK by far.

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'Better Together' just circling the drain

   By Mark McNaught

Last week the Queen gave her speech presenting the UK government’s manifesto for the next year.  As I watched it, I wondered to what degree she actually agrees with what she was proposing, or whether she was just channelling the neo-liberal think tanks that provide the Tories with their discredited intellectual architecture. 

The Queen’s Delphic treatment of the question of devolution was notably short on substance.

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Farage and the Farrago of lies

  By G.A.Ponsonby
 
A band of hard line Scottish nationalists this week turned on UKIP leader Nigel Farage, forcing the mild mannered English gent to flee from Edinburgh in fear of his own safety.
 
This lie is being perpetrated by malevolent forces within the media here in Scotland.  It is a lie that has at its heart the aim of portraying Scots who oppose fundamental Unionism as nothing more than an anti-English Facist mob intent on silencing all who oppose them.

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Young Scots debate the independence referendum

Two young Scots representing each side in the independence debate answer questions on the merits of Scottish independence and remaining within the Union.

Ross Greer from Yes Scotland and Michael Low from Better Together give a young person's view of the debate.

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First Minister's Questions - 16 May 2013 - video

In keeping with our aim to provide, as often as we can, a full recording of First Minister's Questions, we have uploaded the latest session.

Many people are unable to navigate both the Scottish Parliament's own recordings and BBC Scotland’s online recording of the event, and thus Newsnet Scotland believes that by publishing here we make the event accessible to a much wider audience than would otherwise be the case.

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Time to move forward

By Allan Grogan of Labour for Independence

"Someone in Glasgow is no different to someone in London or Cardiff and I think it's really important to remember that."

If this comment above sounds familiar it may be because you heard it on the video launch of United with Labour. But it is more likely that you will hear it from a Labour member voting no in 2014.

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