Alex Thomson
Who owns Scotland? Not exactly feudal, but pretty weird
The SNP promised radical reform of land ownership in Scotland, a country where fewer than 500 people own more than half of all private land.
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Alex Thomson
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FactCheck: what has the SNP failed to deliver?
The Scottish Government has published its plans for this year. But the ruling SNP has failed to keep promises to voters in the past.
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Alex Thomson
Could straight-talking Jezza Corbyn take on the SNP?
The Sturgeonator v Jezza, the stillettoes v the vest – it should be quite a scrap.
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Gary Gibbon
SNP foxhunting move a raiding party into English lawmaking
The government has pulled the vote on foxhunting after the SNP’s decision to break its own pledge and vote against the relaxation of the ban in England.
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FactCheck: is Scotland giving the Queen a pay cut?
Will the Queen really lose millions if the Scottish Government takes over the Crown Estate assets north of the border? Errr… no.
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Alex Thomson
Nicola Sturgeon: my 56 MPs will fight to end austerity
Below the Forth railway bridge, in front of her 56 Westminster MPs, Nicola Queen of Scots pledges to fight austerity – and fails to mention “independence” or “referendum”.
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Paul Mason
Labour haven’t just failed to win – it’s worse than that
Labour have failed to understand the nature of the SNP challenge and are paying the ultimate price.
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Paul Mason
Election 2015: how will seven-party politics work?
Unless the polls are criminally inaccurate, a majority government is impossible. So the choice facing people as they put their crosses on the ballot paper is like a proxy vote.
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Alex Thomson
Could SNP do more to ‘name and shame’ the fringe?
SNP activists claim Scottish Labour was behind a dark propaganda deed to wreck its own rally in Glasgow. Come on guys.
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Alex Thomson
Jim Murphy confronts ‘the ugly face of nationalism’
Free speech was unquestionably denied in Glasgow today. It was shameful and it was perpetrated by people who say they will vote SNP.
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FactCheck Q&A: can Ed Miliband be prime minister?
Ed Miliband says he won’t do a deal with the SNP. Does that he won’t be the next Prime Minister? No.
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Gary Gibbon
Election 2015: talking to the SNP – deals and mini deals
Ed Miliband’s team has always been clear. The SNP, it argues, has nowhere else to go in a hung parliament, when it comes to votes that could bring in or vote out a Labour minority government.
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FactCheck: does the Sun win elections?
The Sun is backing the SNP in Scotland. Does Britain’s biggest-selling paper still have the power to win elections… if it ever did?
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FactCheck: does Cameron have ’10 days to save the union’?
Is Britain heading for a weak Labour government propped up the SNP, a party that wants to destroy the UK? Here’s the what the experts think…
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Alex Thomson
Other parties struggle to top the SNP’s fervent supporters
This is something close to adoration, and this cannot be faked – as a seasoned correspondent you report what you see, and I have never seen this in a UK election. Never.