Watch out for ORCS! Rory Stewart thrillingly brings back "The Middleland", by no popular demand - it's Our Pweshus Union's answer to Middle-Earth

Burnham's TIME-BENDING hypocrisy: "It's fine for us to consider overturning the 2016 EU referendum result because that was TEN YEARS AGO, but we won't let Scots change their minds on how they voted in...

Burnham uses the loss of his father as an excuse for stripping Scotland of its democratic right to choose its own future, in a despicable conference speech stunt

Is Robin McAlpine hallucinating, or is he trying to gaslight us?

YouGov MRP mega-poll shows SNP on course to hold BALANCE OF POWER at Westminster - and the right to hold independence referendums MUST be their price to keep Burnham as PM

HUGE milestone for Scottish independence as TENTH Norstat poll in a row shows Yes majority - and 68% of voters DEMAND a second independence referendum

WHO KNEW that the Brit Nats would be SO triggered by the mere idea of a totally hypothetical ferry from Scotland to Denmark?

Burnham's REVOLUTIONARY U-turn as he accepts Scotland can have an independence referendum if it wants one - but is this sudden outbreak of democracy FOR REAL?

Burnham suffers more Scottish poll MISERY as SNP enjoy 17-point lead in YouGov subsample

A de facto referendum on independence would self-evidently not be "bonkers" - although you'd be forgiven for wondering if an edict has gone out to gaslight us into believing that it would

"Well THAT one was worth waiting for!": SNP have DOUBLE Labour's support in delayed YouGov subsample

RevStew can squeal but *of course* the SNP have done the right thing by ruling out a deal with Reform UK

The refusal to allow a debate and vote on independence strategy at the SNP conference is reprehensible, and leaves a vacuum where strategy should be

Another Scottish polling disaster for Burnham: a majority of voters want Scotland to become an independent country, and the SNP have a FIFTEEN point lead over Labour

The BBC will ALWAYS be fearlessly neutral and even-handed and ask all the important "valid questions"...except on these four subjects, naturally

Warning - Danger - MASSIVE BLACK HOLE APPROACHING and Stew wants to chuck YOUR life savings straight into it - Please learn the lessons of the Dugdale debacle and ca' canny this time

Concerns mount that the "Scottish Daily Express" may be written by clueless Home Counties toffs, as paper launches bizarre crusade to stamp out the name Queensferry Bothy "because it's Gaelic"

Douglas Alexander tacitly admits the choice for Labour is: a) change course on independence, or b) keep losing elections (and we already know it's b) because of the leadership contest stitch-up)

YouGov poll suggests Andy Burnham is faring about as well in Scotland as the Romans and Edward II did

Liberation Scotland's wish to disenfranchise one million "incomers" - isn't that a rather sinister echo of Reform UK's language about deporting "strangers"?

"Yeah, you know that John Major guy? The Council of Europe FORCED him to give Scotland devolution. He only did it because they MADE him. FACT" - How Sara Salyers wrecked Salvo's credibility yesterd...

Some free - and mostly sincere - advice for Scottish Labour

Seven Days Of Retro Scot Goes Pop - a marathon of conventional text-blogging with comment pre-moderation switched OFF - yes, it's the fundraising gimmick to end them all - it's going to be mayhem - yo...

Analysis of the very strange Clacton by-election result

The Scottish REVOLUTION! Almost half of Scottish voters demand U.D.I. in history-making poll

Analysis of the first full-scale poll of Scottish voting intentions for Westminster of the Burnham era

Bafflement as Gerry Hassan claims the 1979 devolution referendum, in which Scotland voted for devolution but didn't get it, is proof that Scotland is in a "voluntary union"

The BBC's attempts to sabotage the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games will never be forgotten - and demonstrates powerfully why a British state broadcaster will always fail Scottish viewers

The Craig Murray and Xander Elliards blueprints for securing Scottish independence: is one better than the other?

John Swinney's strong denunciation of Burnham's outrageous "off-limits" comment: my reaction

No. 10 North: How Burnham is signalling with his choice of name that "England is our country, Scotland is an external possession"

Scottish poll DISASTER for Burnham: SNP have massive lead in his first YouGov subsample as PM

Scotland is now in a FORCED union, not a "voluntary" one: Burnham makes it official on just Day 4 of his premiership

A poll for Scot Goes Pop readers and viewers - please respond if you can

The case for optimism that the next general election WILL be used as a de facto referendum on independence

A progress report on the Scot Goes Pop video channel - plus a question for its viewers

On the day Andy Burnham becomes Prime Minister, Scottish independence could now be just one or two years away from taking centre-stage once again

Not "hatred" or "bigotry" after all: in stunning turnaround, the British establishment decides that it *is* OK to want a national football team to lose for political reasons

"Democratic Self-Determination for the Falkland Islands but NOT for Scotland!" - World Cup exposes WEIRD contradiction in British imperial logic

SNP vote INCREASES in Larkhall by-election as Burnham FAILS his first Scottish electoral test

Why so many Scots want NORWAY to beat England in the World Cup: three CRACKING reasons

Disaster for Burnham as Labour languish in JOINT THIRD in YouGov Scottish subsample