The UK Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has decided to extend the current cap on energy prices for another three months – but that is not enough to help Scottish families who have to pay over the odds to heat their homes.  The headline figure says that this will keep average bills at £2,500 a year […]The post Energy freeze won’t cool Scotland’s anger over energy rip-off...

  A poll conducted by Panelbase for Believe in Scotland of over 2,000 Scottish residents, aged 16+ conducted has shown that 56% of Scottish voters would support Scottish independence if the Scottish Government put a Wellbeing Economic Approach at the heart of its economic plans for an independent Scotland. A plan that recognises that quality […]The post Poll – Two policies that...

  The mainstream news media is reporting that fresh vegetable shortages in British supermarkets are caused by “bad weather in Spain and Morocco”. But Brexit is a big factor – it has disrupted Britain’s supply chains and is reducing food production in the UK.  Social media is awash with photos of groaning shelves in European […]The post 10 reasons why Brexit is behind...

  A PanelBase poll conducted on behalf of Believe in Scotland has found 48% of respondents in support of Yes, the same as polls in October 2022, despite alleged ‘setbacks’ for the independence campaign. These results show that with a concentrated effort by the independence movement and the Scottish Government to put the focus back […]The post Polling News: Yes support unchanged...

  A large scale poll by Believe in Scotland conducted by Panelbase has found a two thirds majority of support amongst Scottish voters for an independent Scotland to rejoin the EU.  The poll of 2,006 people also found independence support to be at 48%. This is an increase from a similar sized recent Lord Ashcroft […]The post Poll shows 68% of voters want an independent Scotland to...

  On Saturday 18th February, 241 voting delegates from 126 local and national Yes groups joined the Scottish Independence Congress hosted by Believe in Scotland. This was the biggest ever meeting of Yes Group organisers. Delegates met to discuss and agree on the next steps for the Yes movement and what the strategy for achieving […]The post 70% of Yes Group organisers say Westminster...

  Saturday’s Scottish Independence Congress will be the biggest ever gathering of Yes Group organisers. More than 200 delegates from around 100 Yes Groups have registered to attend the congress.  The growing success of this event (registration opening only two weeks ago) serves to prove that the grassroots independence campaign is getting ready for a […]The post 200+...

  A poverty gap is opening between England and Scotland, in particular in child poverty rates, according to a new report by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. In its annual report: “UK Poverty 2023: The essential guide to understanding poverty in the UK”, the charity reports that rates of child poverty are diverging between the two […]The post Scotland’s poverty rate 20% lower...

When Shell announced the biggest profits in its history – £32.2 billion pounds for 2022 on Thursday – the BBC morning news flagship, the ‘Today’ programme gave listeners misleading information about how much tax it is paying in the UK compared to other countries.  The show’s journalists gave the erroneous impression that the UK is […]The post Mediawatch – BBC...

The UK government is attacking workers’ rights in draconian new laws, which will be imposed on Scotland –  despite fierce opposition from Scotland’s democratically elected Parliament.  The UK is also ripping up many workers’ rights that depend on EU laws – such as mandatory rest breaks and holiday pay for part-time workers.  Meanwhile, the UK […]The post The...

The UK Government has decided to block the Scottish Government’s Gender Recognition Reform Bill, despite the legislation falling under devolved competence. A move which Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said will almost certainly end up in court.  As we have been predicting, this is a worrying intensification of Westminster’s efforts to undermine devolution and […]The...

  The start of the year has seen keynote speeches from the Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and a response from opposition leader Keir Starmer. Both proclaimed they were setting their visions and their priorities for UK governance. One glaring similarity between the two speeches is that they both largely ignored Scotland and the other devolved […]The post Starmer and Sunak’s speeches try...

  The right-wing, ultra British nationalist Daily Express is not normally the first to make the case for Scottish independence – but an article calling Scotland “an energy goldmine” can only strengthen support for the country to run its own affairs. The headline  “UK handed energy ‘jackpot’ as Scotland’s huge goldmine could export £25bn a […]The post...

Scotland faces a media that in many cases is completely hostile to independence. News stories are spun to suggest Scots could never be trusted to run their own affairs. Good news is minimised, or just simply not reported and bad news for Scotland overblown and taken out of context.  Contrast that to the measurable and […]The post Our Ten Most Shared Blogs of 2022 appeared first on...

  BREAKING: A poll released this morning has shown support for Scottish independence has soared to 56% in the wake of the UK Supreme Court’s ruling against a second independence referendum. These results demonstrate that the writing is on the wall for Unionism as a political project- the people of Scotland are both ready and […]The post New Poll: 56% Yes and General Election...

  In Leeds today, Keir Starmer, flanked by former-PM Gordon Brown, unveiled Labour’s plans for UK constitutional reform. There is a clue in that first sentence as to why it’s not going to blunt moves towards Scottish independence. This report is about Labour reclaiming its so-called ‘Red Wall’ seats from the Tories and it offers […]The post 5 Things You Need to Know...

  Frontpage headlines rarely cause laughter – unless on comics like the Broons.  But listeners to the press review on BBS Radio Scotland’s Sunday Show last weekend may have chuckled as reviewers joked about the Sunday Times Scotland’s latest anti-independence splash. Separately, a law professor condemned the editorial team behind the weekend’s splash headlines as […]...

  Rising star in the field of Scottish and UK law Sionaidh Douglas-Scott, who is a fellow at Princeton in the US, argues the UK government risks undermining the rule of law and should change its stance to allow a referendum on Scottish independence.  In a hard-hitting legal analysis in the current issue of Prospect […]The post Top lawyer: UK refusal to negotiate with Scotland on...

A proposal that Scotland’s Secretary of State Alister Jack should postpone taking up his controversial peerage until the next general election in order to avoid a by-election in his marginal seat of Dumfries and Galloway is being condemned as an attempt to play the system, in a new scandal for the UK’s unelected Upper House. […]The post Scotland scunnered with rule by House of so-called...

  The UK Supreme Court judgment that the Scottish government doesn’t have the legal right to hold a referendum is a huge milestone in the road to independence. It gives clarity over the nature of the Union; it ends this potentially time-consuming legal stage promptly and puts the question of Scotland’s independence firmly back into […]The post Ten things you need to know about the...