Runes from the Polls as the SNP Meet Again

26th November 2021 Comment Elections, parties & leaders How Scotland should be governed The Scottish independence referendum

The SNP meet (virtually) again this weekend for their second conference in three months. But have the polls changed significantly since the party’s previous conference in September, just before the seventh anniversary of the 2014 independence referendum? There is little sign of any erosion of the party’s dominance of vote intentions. Three polls of vote […]



Questions of Values and Identity

21st October 2021 Comment Cross border attitudes How England should be governed How Scotland should be governed National identity and cultural issues

Today’s British Social Attitudes report contains two chapters of particular relevance to the subjects covered by this website. The first is a chapter  by Chris Deeming of Strathclyde University that compares attitudes in Scotland towards aspects of social justice and inequality with those in England on the one hand and those in the three Nordic […]