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Attitudes to Gaelic and to Scottish Autonomy

25th June 2014

The status of national languages has been a source of controversy in many movements seeking autonomy for a small nation, such as, for example, those in Ireland and Wales. Yet Scotland seems to be an exception. Support for the Gaelic language has never been closely linked with campaigning  for Scottish political autonomy. But does that […]


Three Months To Go: Polls Still Poles Apart

18th June 2014

If you had not noticed, it is now exactly three months to go to polling day. But so far as the polls are concerned, it is business as usual. The saga of markedly divergent results continues with new findings from YouGov for The Sun (for Scotland as a whole) and from ComRes for ITV Border […]


YouGov Reports Its Highest Yes Vote Yet

26th March 2014

YouGov have so far been amongst the more conservative of the pollsters so far as its estimate of the Yes vote is concerned. Since September, most of its polls have put the Yes vote at between 38 and 40 per cent (once Don’t Knows were excluded). Its estimate of the degree to which the No […]


TNS BMRB Poll Suggests Yes Still Have Plenty To Do

25th March 2014

TNS BMRB’s latest monthly poll is published this morning. It is in fact relatively old. Interviewing began almost a month ago, and finished as long ago as the 9th of this month. However, that does not mean it should be ignored. The poll puts Yes on 28%, No on 42%. That represents a one point […]


March ICM Poll Uncovers Worrying Underlying Trends for No

23rd March 2014

The latest monthly ICM poll for Scotland on Sunday, published today, will do little to smooth the worried brows in the No camp. Once again the message appears to be that the referendum race has become, from their perspective at least, all too close for comfort. The poll puts Yes on 39%, No on 46%. […]


TNS BMRB Poll Confirms Continuing Swing to Yes

1st February 2014

At first glance, the poll from TNS BMRB published tonight (conducted on behalf of a new organisation being founded by Sir Tom Hunter, with the aim of improving the quality of the data and the evidence in the referendum debate) presents a very different picture of the state of the referendum race than last week’s […]


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