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James Kelly
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Pro-independence blogger at 'Scot Goes Pop!', one of Scotland's three most-read political blogs. Member of the SNP's Policy Development Committee. Email: [email protected]
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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:

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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
An audio podcast version of the above video can be heard HERE , and will soon be available on Apple Podcasts HERE . *  *  * If you'd like ...
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October 4, 2026 at 2:31 PM
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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 the 2014 indyref because that was BASICALLY LAST WEEK" -

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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...
An audio podcast version of the above video can be heard HERE , and will soon be available on Apple Podcasts HERE . *  *  * If you'd like ...
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October 1, 2026 at 1:29 AM
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VIDEO: 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 -

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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
An audio podcast version of the above video can be heard HERE , and will soon be available on Apple Podcasts HERE . *  *  * If you'd like ...
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September 29, 2026 at 6:01 PM
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Is Robin McAlpine hallucinating, or is he trying to gaslight us? -

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Is Robin McAlpine hallucinating, or is he trying to gaslight us?
An audio podcast version of the above video can be heard HERE , and will soon be available on Apple Podcasts HERE . *  *  * If you'd like ...
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September 26, 2026 at 1:22 AM
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YouGov MRP mega-poll shows SNP on course to hold the BALANCE OF POWER at Westminster - and the right to hold independence referendums MUST be their price to keep Burnham as PM:

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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
An audio podcast version of the above video can be heard HERE , and will soon be available on Apple Podcasts HERE . *  *  * If you'd like to...
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September 24, 2026 at 2:01 PM
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HUGE milestone for Scottish independence as TENTH Norstat poll in a row shows Yes majority -

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HUGE milestone for Scottish independence as TENTH Norstat poll in a row shows Yes majority - and 68% of voters DEMAND a second independence referendum
An audio podcast version of the above video can be heard HERE , and will soon be available on Apple Podcasts HERE . *  *  * If you'd like ...
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September 22, 2026 at 7:34 PM
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WHO KNEW that the Brit Nats would be SO triggered by the mere idea of a totally hypothetical ferry from Scotland to Denmark? -

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WHO KNEW that the Brit Nats would be SO triggered by the mere idea of a totally hypothetical ferry from Scotland to Denmark?
An audio podcast version of the above video can be heard HERE , and will soon be available on Apple Podcasts HERE . *  *  * If you'd like ...
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September 21, 2026 at 1:27 PM
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Labour slump to THIRD PLACE in Scottish subsample as Burnham's YouGov horror show continues -

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September 16, 2026 at 12:55 PM
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Burnham U-turns on the U-turn and reverts to the previous policy that Scotland *doesn't* have the same rights as Northern Ireland for "historical reasons". Is that code for "the UK government is punishing Scotland for being impeccably peaceful", Andy? -

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September 11, 2026 at 4:04 PM
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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?
Link to video below -

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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?
An audio podcast version of the above video can be heard HERE , and will soon be available on Apple Podcasts HERE . *  *  * If you'd like ...
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September 10, 2026 at 12:11 PM
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Burnham suffers more Scottish poll MISERY as SNP enjoy 17-point lead in YouGov subsample -

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Burnham suffers more Scottish poll MISERY as SNP enjoy 17-point lead in YouGov subsample
An audio podcast version of the above video can be heard HERE , and will soon be available on Apple Podcasts HERE . *  *  * If you'd like to...
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September 9, 2026 at 12:17 PM
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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:

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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
There has been just one occasion in history in which an integral part of the United Kingdom became an independent country, and it did not ha...
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September 7, 2026 at 10:14 AM
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"Well THAT one was worth waiting for!": SNP have DOUBLE Labour's support in delayed YouGov subsample -

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"Well THAT one was worth waiting for!": SNP have DOUBLE Labour's support in delayed YouGov subsample
A pro-independence blog by James Kelly - one of Scotland's three most-read political blogs.
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September 2, 2026 at 10:42 PM
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RevStew can squeal but *of course* the SNP have done the right thing by ruling out a deal with Reform UK -

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RevStew can squeal but *of course* the SNP have done the right thing by ruling out a deal with Reform UK
The most dispiriting aspect of the controversy surrounding Dave Doogan is that it's given the controversial Somerset-based "Stew" blogger an...
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August 31, 2026 at 8:23 AM
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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 -

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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
I initially assumed that the timing of the publication of a draft indyref bill was directly connected to the news having just broken that th...
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August 29, 2026 at 9:16 AM
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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 -

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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
Someone asked on the previous comments thread whether it was true that a new Survation poll showed that Andy Burnham is the most popular pol...
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August 27, 2026 at 9:28 PM
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The BBC will ALWAYS be fearlessly neutral and even-handed and ask all the important "valid questions"...except on these four subjects, naturally -

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The BBC will ALWAYS be fearlessly neutral and even-handed and ask all the important "valid questions"...except on these four subjects, naturally
*  *  * I'm still urgently trying to make progress towards my blogging and YouTube videos becoming financially sustainable.  If you'd like t...
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August 24, 2026 at 9:16 PM
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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:

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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
Probably because I grew up during the period in which the Guildford Four and the Birmingham Six were released, I've always been deeply troub...
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August 22, 2026 at 9:14 PM
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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" -

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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"
If it wasn't so outrageous, the latest anti-Gaelic rant from the Scottish Daily Express would be hysterically funny.  The paper reports that...
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August 22, 2026 at 11:27 AM
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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):

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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)
My seven-day conventional text-blogging blitz to help  promote my Ko-Fi fundraising page is now over, and it certainly wasn't a waste of ti...
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August 21, 2026 at 11:30 AM
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YouGov poll suggests Andy Burnham is faring about as well in Scotland as the Romans and Edward II did -

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YouGov poll suggests Andy Burnham is faring about as well in Scotland as the Romans and Edward II did
History doesn't record whether the Roman Emperor tried to win over the reluctant Caledonian tribes by setting up a "Senate North" somewhere ...
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August 19, 2026 at 12:26 PM
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Liberation Scotland's wish to disenfranchise one million "incomers" - isn't that a rather sinister echo of Reform UK's language about deporting "strangers"?:

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Liberation Scotland's wish to disenfranchise one million "incomers" - isn't that a rather sinister echo of Reform UK's language about deporting "strangers"?
I was thinking of writing a blogpost tonight about the latest chapter in Stew's prolonged temper tantrum about the Crown Office impertinentl...
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August 17, 2026 at 10:09 PM
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"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 yesterday by trotting out a nutty, long-debunked claim:

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"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...
As I said in a recent video , I've tried hard to remain open-minded about Salvo's approach to independence campaigning - not because I think...
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August 17, 2026 at 12:10 PM
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Some free - and mostly sincere - advice for Scottish Labour:

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Some free - and mostly sincere - advice for Scottish Labour
Scottish Labour have finally learned the lessons of two decades of defeats and realised what they need is another soul-crushing machine poli...
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August 16, 2026 at 9:38 PM
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Stew reacts badly to poll showing the SNP with a double-digit lead over Labour - let's fact-check his meltdown:

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August 15, 2026 at 10:21 PM