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Posted by: Editor June 25, 2016, 11:30 a.m.

The newspapers on the day after Brexit

We take a quick look round the main Scottish and rUK newspapers on the day after Brexit to gauge how the referendum result is being presented. We have also included a few continental European newspaper front pages, just for fun.

Have EU heard?

Posted by: Editor in Constitution, EU June 24, 2016, 9:51 p.m.

Britain out, IndieRef back, Dave going

Well, for a campaign that started off as uninspiring and lacklustre the EU Referendum has turned into one of the most fascinating political events ever. The polls predicted that it would be close and it was with 52% Leave and 48% Remain. In Scotland, however, Remain scored an emphatic 62% emphasising, yet again, how different the political scene is here compared to rUK. All of Scotland's 32 local authority areas voted Remain although some, like Moray at 50.1%, were much closer than others.

Too close to call

Posted by: Editor June 21, 2016, 12:43 p.m.

EU Referendum result on a knife edge

There is only one campaigning day left before the referendum is held on Thursday and the UK result seems to be too close to call. The financial markets and the bookies (Betfair on Monday were offering 5 to 1 for Brexit) seem to be suggesting that Remain had it in the bag but the UK's only known psephologist, John Curtice, warned against discounting a Leave majority. The pollsters are all over the place.

Death knell

Posted by: Editor June 14, 2016, 1:22 p.m.

The Sun: they think it's all over (in England)

The Sun newspaper likes to be seen on the winning side of any political decision as it is good for their circulation figures. In the last few days there have been some strong polling suggesting that the Leave campaign would be victorious a week on Thursday. Polls are just snapshots of opinion at a given time and there are nine days of scaremongering campaigning still to go.

Watching you, watching everyone

Posted by: Editor April 29, 2016, 3:43 p.m.

Take two

In 2013 Edward Snowden leaked documents which disclosed the extent of global surveillance mostly carried out by the USA but also assisted by the governments in the UK, Canada and Australia. The disclosures made it clear that the surveillance was attempting to capture everything that anyone was doing online or on their mobiles.

A wee reminder

Posted by: Editor in Constitution, Defence, Economics March 20, 2016, 5:09 p.m.

A snippet from "Scotland's Future"

This incoming Thursday is the 24th of March, 2016. Had a Yes vote prevailed in the referendum, March 24th would have been Independence Day. The following is a quote from "Scotland's Future" also known as "The White Paper".

Next referendum announced

Posted by: Editor in Constitution, EU Feb. 20, 2016, 5:22 p.m.

Erm, EU referendum, that is

A short while ago David Cameron announced, from outside Downing Street, the date of the EU referendum: Thursday, June 23rd, 2016. He stated that following his "deal", secured late last night,

Love Labour's Loss

Posted by: Editor Feb. 12, 2016, 5:31 p.m.

Every cloud has a silver lining

As everyone else is looking forward to a fascinating Holyrood election in May we will just briefly glance back to last year's Westminster contest. Professor Philip Cowley, of Queen Mary University of London, had been conducting interviews with senior Labour politicians as research for his co-authored book on the 2015 General Election. Prof. Cowley was quite taken aback by the response from a current Labour Shadow Cabinet member:

Independence: it's not a game

Posted by: Editor in Constitution, Media Jan. 22, 2016, 5:37 p.m.

Ad's so bad even Better Together didn't use them

Union Jack begone

Posted by: Editor in Constitution Dec. 19, 2015, 5:55 p.m.

Well, maybe

The New Zealand government is currently running a referendum process which will decide which flag the country will use in the future. The first stage of the process asked for people to submit their ideas and designs for a possible new flag. The second stage of the process asked voters to select one of the five shortlisted designs. The second stage has now completed and the selected Silver Fern design will go up against the existing Union Jack based flag in a postal referendum in March 2016. The two flags are shown in the image below.

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