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Post-referendum Scottish politics is a polarised place where dogma and demagoguery currently reign. While at least 55 per cent of Scots were hoping last September would mean a halt to the seemingly endless debate over independence, a voluble proportion of the...

In exactly one month it will be referendum polling day, and in two weeks the first postal ballots will be cast. Time is running out for the nationalists to find the ‘game-changer’ they seek. The white paper, the Commonwealth Games, the Bannockburn anniversary: Alex...

So there we have it. After three days of political posturing. Round one. Salmond one. Coalition nil. With 1000 days to go. And all we have so far is a rough date for the Scottish referendum. If you think that a legally binding, clear cut referendum, to be held as soon...