Iain Roberts' Blog

This week, Nicola Sturgeon published a draft bill to authorise a second Scottish independence referendum. That's a long way from commit...

Last week was a significant one for Scotland. Thursday 24 March was the prospective date for Scottish independence, if the 2014 referendum ...

A friend recently posed this question: Why is it that the English left is so comfortable with the independence of everywhere from Austra...

Charles Kennedy, former leader of the Liberal Democrats, passed away on Monday. He was an exceptionally decent, principled and humane polit...

The UK government has decided to loosen restrictions on fracking across Britain. This has met with fury from independence supporters in Sco...

In his speech after the referendum result , Alex Salmond accused the UK parties of trickery in their offer of additional powers for the Scot...

The post-referendum article by Irvine Welsh, which I quoted in the previous entry , also has this to say: A devo max that gives Scotlan...

Referring to the No campaign as Project Fear started off as a clever bit of marketing by the Yes side. It has become something dangerously ...

The vote is a decisive No: Final result of Scotland's Independence referendum #indyref NO 2,001,926 (55%) YES 1,617,989 (45%) Turno...

Here is a double feature of Dexter, facing the news from Scotland with natural poise and style.

Good luck, Scotland. I'm hoping for a good-natured and untroubled vote, with high turnout and a clear result for Yes or No. In the immo...

We are close to the end of the road, where Scotland must turn one way or another. It's been more than three years since the SNP's el...

A good friend of mine is a die-hard supporter of Scottish independence, and has become rather irate with me. I have reached some conclusions...

The Yes campaign contains two extreme and opposing views of English politics. In my view both are mistaken. The pessimists see the future ...

In a speech in Edinburgh  on Wednesday, David Cameron gave a remarkable demonstration of missing the point: I hope [what] will really com...

The polls are close, and we are eight days away from the vote. Inevitably, the campaign is becoming more heated. A major theme of the Ye...

Here is a much-needed distraction from the serious arguments about Scottish independence. An opinion column in the New York Times had th...

Today, for the first time, a mainstream poll has put Yes in the lead. The Sunday Times reports Yes 51%, No 49%, excluding undecided voters....

One argument for Scottish independence was expressed on Tuesday by George Monbiot in the Guardian : Imagine the question posed the other ...

The topic of currency has been well and truly flogged to death in recent weeks, so I'm going to leave it alone for a while. Before I do,...