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I must apologise in advance for stirring up a hornets nest, but there is a question I must ask: Why does the mainstream press in Scotland, and the UK as a whole continue to be so unbelievably biased when reporting on the SNP? Beyond the fact that there is not a single newspaper in the country that r...

Theres a Single Transferable Vote system being used in Council elections for the first time, which should be an awful lot fairer. Its the same system used in most student elections, as in you list the candidates in order of preference, the main difference being that three people are now elected in (...

Quoting angel_kohaku from 13:27, 13th Feb 2007 Ok, everyone's having fun being all prentetious on the "favourite poem" thread, so I started this, because it is more fun. I have a special hatred reserved for Seamus Heaney because he ruined AH english for me, but this has to be the worst poem ever wr...

To quash a few myths... Rufus, yes, our First Minister, His Excelleny The First Minister Jack McConnell MSP Esq,Peace be Upon Him, was raised on a sheep farm on Arran - a humble background yes. A kinda departure from that would be to say we actualy do have a fairly solid educational system that allo...

After the Revolution, after we've put up all the barbed wire and deported all non pure-bred Scots, you will actually be able to choose between keeping your British passport, or getting a new Scottish one. A similar agreement exist between the UK and Ireland. Irish citizens have more rights in the UK...

Quoting ljrmorgan from 01:17, 2nd Dec 2006 Its very difficult to actively support the "status quo" that people keep harping on about. The phrase itself has quite negative connotations for a start. Is everything perfect in Scotland right now? No. Does that mean we should spend billions of pounds (th...

As I said earlier, go to www.snp.org, and yea shall find out.

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It could be argued that this thread was never going anywhere but downhill. Both sides have their own hackneyed arguments which don't really have much to do with the issue at hand. I'll make this my own last contribution. The hostility shown towards the idea of an independent Scotland from most of th...

Of course Scotland would take on its share of the national debt - and is here a country in the world that does not have some sort of national debt?

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A referendum on the monarchy post-independence? So, who would be head of state in the interim? I would support keeping the monarchy over some elected head of state, personally, if I did have to endure the agony of an independent Scotland. And you are right, there are plenty of royalists in prominen...

Quoting exnihilo from 23:29, 28th Nov 2006 Rising support for independence among young Scots, curiously at the same time as standards of teaching and academic attainment plummet. A general ignorance of the past, an unwillingness to hear new information, and an unshakeable interest in the self at th...

Quoting ljrmorgan from 21:24, 28th Nov 2006 Arguing against independence with a bunch of SNP supporters is a bit like arguing against the existence of god with a priest - no matter how right you might know you are, they've heard all the arguments before and always have a response. Having said that,...

I've alas missed most of the posting going in the last couple of days, but at least it gives me time to address the issue at root. I am a nationalist, and almost born that way. It almost seems to go against every internationalist bone in my body, at a time when the world is, well, globalising. But f...

Good question. With the old party on the up, even the beeb are getting in on the act by turning the question round - its great watching Jack McConnell squirm. Nobody has had the temerity to try it on Gordon Brown yet. I'm sure he'll be just as unable to provide an answer. If I can save us some time ...

Quoting Gealle from 23:11, 26th Nov 2006 Sounds more like a threat from what appears increasingly to be a party verging on the point of fascism. Quoting Iain from 20:24, 26th Nov 2006 If you aren't willing to explain the circumstances of this, which part of the SNP (students, politicians (which one...

Quoting Gealle from 23:11, 26th Nov 2006 Sounds more like a threat from what appears increasingly to be a party verging on the point of fascism. Quoting Iain from 20:24, 26th Nov 2006 If you aren't willing to explain the circumstances of this, which part of the SNP (students, politicians (which one...

Why don't they stand for Westminster then if it's national matters which truly interest them? [hr] http://imagegen.last.fm/chemin/artists/emoscopes.gif Holyrood has time set aside each week for debates concerning the issues of the day - and while Iraq was not strictly under its remit, they debated ...

Quoting flarewearer from 13:17, 31st Oct 2006 Quoting AlenWatters from 12:57, 31st Oct 2006 Meanwhile, parties actually committed to asking difficult questions of the government (OK, that'd be the SNP and Plaid Cymru) have given up their own parliamentary time today today call that Iraq debate (the...

Does anyone really care whether the Golden Eagle becomes an official national emblem? Alas, Probably. Do such trivial pronouncements get made by committees in Westminster? Certainly. A parliament which is stuck with the toon cooncil powers which ours does will enevitably turn into a toon cooncil. Me...

Sorry to break up the quite frankly ludicrous debate as to whether Israel is the guilty party (they are, why the debate?) to ask for some advice... I'm trying to set up an outlook express account on my laptop, and am rather confused by a few questions: Is our st andrews webmail account a POP, IMAP o...