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Also known as Paul Kavanagh.

Latest articles from Wee Ginger Dug

Wee Ginger Dug: What the newest poll for Yes is really telling us

We are witnessing a genuine increase in support for independence…

Wee Ginger Dug: No amount of press-ups will make PM fit for office

IT was only a few short days ago that everyone was scoffing at an…

'Press-up' buffoonery shows entire Boris schtick is an act

ALEXANDER Boris de Pfeffel Johnson has appeared in some totally…

We need to smash the UK’s Section 30 refusal brick wall

ON Saturday an opinion poll was published which shows that by a…

New Yes poll shows British nationalism is dying out in Scotland

A NEW poll published this weekend, this time for Business for…

Wee Ginger Dug: Scotland isn’t ‘safe’ in this insane right-wing UK

THERE’S wrongness, and then there’s British nationalist…

Chaos over statues in London is the worst of fragile British nationalism

AS anyone who pays even passing attention to Scottish politics…

Wee Ginger Dug: Labour just wrote suicide note for next year’s vote

IF you’re struggling to get your head round the latest…

Wee Ginger Dug: SNP-bad smears won’t save Union after this disaster-fest

THE Prime Minister wants everyone to move on from the Dominic…

Wee Ginger Dug: Tory silence should have us screaming for independence

OVER the weekend the Conservative Government in London doubled…

Wee Ginger Dug: There’s only one cure for British exceptionalism

A POLL published over the weekend found, for the first time, more…

Wee Ginger Dug: #BorisHasFailed? That’s unfair and ridiculous

WELL, here we go again. The British Government has again…

Wee Ginger Dug: SNP have only one final chance to deliver independence

ONE of the most reliable characteristics of British nationalism…

Wee Ginger Dug: It’s easy to laugh at the Tories, but they are killing us

It’s easy to see why the British Government tried to keep Home…

Wee Ginger Dug: No amount of SNPBaddery will save Tories next time

IT would be nice to say most people in Scotland were shocked by…

Wee Ginger Dug: Changes needed will only be possible with independence

FOR the majority of us, those of us who are not essential workers…

Wee Ginger Dug: What lack of anniversary events tells Yes movement

YESTERDAY was the 700th anniversary of the Declaration of…

Wee Ginger Dug: Looking ahead to a different Scotland on Declaration of Arbroath anniversary

TODAY is the 700th anniversary of the Declaration of Arbroath,…

Alex Salmond is innocent – so the trial must end now

THE coronavirus crisis has changed everything. If it were not for…

Wee Ginger Dug: Why Salmond verdict is good for Yes movement

THE former first minister Alex Salmond has been cleared of all…

Wee Ginger Dug: Letting vulnerable bear brunt will be Boris’s undoing

IT’S 2020. When I was kid, we thought that in 2020 there would…

Wee Ginger Dug: The bankruptcy of British nationalism’s all around us

AFTER Wullie Rennie faced calls to step down from politics and…

Wee Ginger Dugcast: The two types of nationalism

COLUMNIST Paul Kavanagh – aka the Wee Ginger Dug – and…

Scotland is not an equal partner – it's a nuclear dumping ground

THERE are reports this week that the Ministry of Defence wants to…

Wee Ginger Dugcast: SNP can't afford to play the game at Westminster

THE Wee Ginger Dugcast is back for another week, with columnist…

This is what a Scottish passport will mean for our freedom

THE Home Office has announced that as of March, people applying…

The Scottish Tories are a tiny little cult – and this is who they worship

THE Scottish Conservatives have a new leadership team, although…

Support for independence will be unaffected by SNP scandals

THE dug doesn’t like to blow his own trumpet, what with his…

Nicola Sturgeon's Brexit speech urges indyref2 is coming, but patience is needed

WHEN you are forced to deal with bullies, eventually there comes…

Wee Ginger Dug: Gaelic must be treated like a national language

THE recent report highlighting the failings of Bòrd na…

Wee Ginger Dug: Sorry Gordon Brown, the UK won't reform to your federalist dream

THERE have been a number of democratic events in Scotland over…

Wee Ginger Dugcast: AUOB turnout and Boris refuses Section 30 order

PAUL Kavanagh is joined by The National's editor Callum Baird to…

Wee Ginger Dug: The Tories have killed off our democracy by refusing indyref

THE colonial Governor General Alister Jack has laid down the law…

Wee Ginger Dugcast: All the focus is on independence

NATIONAL editor Callum Baird returns to join Paul Kavanagh (aka…

You can’t solve drugs deaths without fixing the underlying cause

TORY MSP Miles Briggs published an article in the press over the…

Wee Ginger Dug: Mystic Dug’s big predictions for the year ahead in politics

THE mystic dug has been staring into his water bowl and has seen…

There's only one way back for the Labour Party in Scotland

AS the UK staggers to the end of 2019, its politics have become a…

Wee Ginger Dugcast: Independence, Brexit & Honeymoons

PAUL Kavanagh – aka National columnist Wee Ginger Dug – is…

Scotland in the Union has a safeword ... it’s indyref2

SCOTTISH supermarkets were very busy over the weekend, as Jackson…

Wee Ginger Dugcast: What the election means for Scotland and the UK

NATIONAL columnist Paul Kavanagh (aka the Wee Ginger Dug) is…

Wee Ginger Dug: Why voting SNP is a moral duty for Scots this election

WE’RE in the last days of this dire and depressing election…

Wee Ginger Dug: BBC let Boris Johnson away with blatant lies

ON Sunday, Boris Johnson bravely came on The Andrew Marr Show to…

This is what we must do to make Scotland heard in this election

SO far this has not been an election campaign which has sparked a…

Unionist parties must realise nothing will divert or delay independence

THERE’S a momentum developing in Scotland, and it’s not the…

Wee Ginger Dug: Don’t fall for this Unionist bid to shatter our resolve

WELL this is a farce, isn’t it. For all that the SNP come under…

Scotland scarcely exists in the UK media's coverage of this election

RECENT opinion polls give the Conservatives a lead over Labour in…

Wee Ginger Dug: Scottish Unionists are fooling only themselves these days

THIS week Ruth Davidson created a PR disaster by taking a PR…

Wee Ginger Dug: Questions about Scotland's future must be answered by Unionists

UNTIL now, the constitutional debate in Scotland has been about…

Time for an independence Plan B? Not right now, it isn’t

AS the SNP conference got under way in Aberdeen on Sunday, there…

An astonishing turnout in Edinburgh – where was the media?

WELL there’s a surprise, he said in the tone of a person who is…