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Also known as Paul Kavanagh.

Latest articles from Wee Ginger Dug

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…

The Union is dead. It has been killed by Unionists

THE Tory Party conference is under way in Manchester. Due to the…

Carlaw's attempts to rig indyref2 are an attack on democracy

THE desperation of the anti-independence parties to avoid another…

Democracy itself is now under threat across the UK

THE recent developments in British politics are deeply alarming,…

This is why we need to wipe out the anti-independence MPs

SPARE a thought for a political columnist. Newspaper deadlines…

Wee Ginger Dug: Tories prove UK democracy is unfit for purpose

THE UK, as we all know, famously has an unwritten constitution.…

Extract: This is how Scotland’s media stole the referendum

IT’S hard to believe that the first…

There’s only one way to safeguard your pension – independence

I’D like to live a very long time.

At the next elections, we need a big SNP landslide

AS a nation, Scots have a distinct tendency to beat ourselves up.…

Scottish independence is about escaping the UK’s Brexit fantasies

IT’S been a momentous week for the independence movement.

Wee Ginger Dug: This summer we will win Scottish Independence

AUGUST is traditionally regarded as the silly season in the…

This is why the Scotland Office is now the Colonial Office

THEY say when you are expecting something bad to happen that the…

A big day for Boris ... and the Yes movement

SOMEWHERE across the multiverse, a couple are sitting at the…

People who were staunch No voters are now turning to Yes

BY this time next week, the UK will have a new prime minister,…

Wee Ginger Dug: Indyref2 Plan B can work but timing must be right

IT is a fact of Scottish politics that the greater the demand for…

Johnson’s Union Jackery can’t stop independence

BORIS Johnson has a plan to stop Scotland’s march to…

Scottish independence: How will we survive?!

Oh my God! How will we survive? The Jeremy Vine Show yesterday…

Polling proves the writing is on the wall for the ‘precious Union’

FOR months now they’ve been relying upon some selective reading…

Wee Ginger Dug: This is why Hunt’s indyref2 ‘conditions’ are ludicrous

I WILL see you your lack of understanding of democracy and I’ll…

This is why Ruth Davidson is the biggest Tory hypocrite of the lot

THIS weekend the Conservative leadership contest was consumed…

Win-win for Farage but Scotland is facing a devil that’s far worse

THE need for Scotland to escape the dysfunctional mess that is…

Massive SNP win proves Scotland is on a different path and must have indyref2

British politics have become indistinguishable from a cheap…

Wee Ginger Dug: Do not fall for Nigel Farage’s claim on independence

THE UK will participate in the European elections this week.…

Wee Ginger Dug: Yes marches are vitally important – this is why

LAST weekend was very much a tale of two contrasting political…

Mundell wouldn't grant a Section 30 Order? It's a democratic disgrace

DAVID Mundell went one step further than Theresa May at the…

There’s much more to the case for independence than economics

NICOLA Sturgeon’s recent article in the pages of this newspaper…

Here are three important lessons for British nationalists

IT is a well-known fact, at least among anti-independence…

Wee Ginger Dug: This is why busted UK scare stories won’t die

IT’S a striking fact about anti-independence scare stories that…

It's a question of when, not if, for independence now

THE opinion poll commissioned by Progress Scotland which was…

If Michael Gove is the answer to Brexit chaos the country really is screwed

THERE is so much uncertainty just now in British politics that…

Brexit has destroyed the notion that Scotland is in a partnership of equals – that lie is no more

NOW, 2014 seems like an eon ago. A time when the UK was a very…

Wee Ginger Dug: Here's why it's wrong to say Brexit has achieved nothing

ANOTHER week, another decisive vote on Brexit in the House of…

Wee Ginger Dug: Indyref ‘no’ from May is no problem

IF it wasn’t for the fact that I have considerably less hair…

Nobody has Brexited before – independence is normal

NEITHER the anti-independence parties, nor any anti-independence…

It’s crunch time for the SNP: We need indyref2

WE are governed by a legislature in Westminster which holds that…

Question Time farce is part of a long pattern of bias against independence on the BBC

YET again, the BBC has succeeded in its mission. Well, that is if…

Scotland must realise the Labour Party can't save us

IT’S like we’re all trapped in a never ending episode of Mr…

The bright star of independence can lead us out of the darkness

SOME of us, who are a bit older, longer in the tooth, and…

Independence is nothing like Brexit ... it's been done before

PRESSURE for Scotland to have its say on the ongoing…

Theresa May’s lies on devolution just insult our intelligence

PLEASE make it stop. Please make it go away. We’re in for another…

Jeremy Corbyn has turned out to be just another Tony Blair

JEREMY Corbyn’s big promise was that he’d be different.…

2019 will see myths of our ‘precious Union’ exposed

IT’S 2019, the year when the phoney war ends and the real one…