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Kenny Farquharson: SNP heading for Nato U-turn in referendum battle plans

HERE’S a wee prediction for you. By the time we get to the referendum on Scottish independence, the SNP will have ditched its iconic policy on pulling out of Nato. How do I know this? By paying attention and reading the runes.

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Has the coalition gone sour? Picture: Getty

Kenny Farquharson: Tories’ marriage of convenience crying out for a quickie divorce

WHAT happens when marriages of convenience become inconvenient? No, this isn’t a question about the torrid revenge saga of Chris Huhne, his lover and his ex-wife.

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Kenny Farquharson: Six myths about the SNP and the independence referendum

I LOVE lists. Lists of ingredients. Lists of books to read on holiday. Lists of songs on iTunes to match a particular frame of mind. Lists of things you really should be doing in the house but haven’t quite got round to yet – but, hey, it’s on a list so that’s something, right?

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Kenny Farquharson: Keep your hands off Scotland’s Sir Humphrey

THE job description “civil servant” is oddly quaint and archaic. Apart from Sunday night tranquiliser television of the Downton Abbey variety and the required protocol if you happen to be writing to the Queen (you are meant to sign off “I have the honour to be, Madam, Your Majesty’s humble and obedient servant”), the very concept of being someone’s servant seems very 19th century

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Kenny Farquharson: Home truths for the new Unionist Party

WHEN did Scottish Labour become the Unionist Party? When did a proud tradition of fighting for Scottish home rule that can be traced back more than a century to Keir Hardie turn into the sour suspicion of constitutional change we see in the party today? And when did Scottish Labour’s attitude to its own country become so deformed that it sees a Nationalist conspiracy in every flutter of a Saltire?

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Kenny Farquharson: Britishness is about pop and fish ‘n’ chips

IN MANY interviews down the years, usually when rebutting suggestions of latent anti-Englishness within the SNP, Alex Salmond has been fond of describing himself as an anglophile.

Kenny Farquharson: A right royal test of Salmond’s power

AH, THOSE were the days. Excuse me while I get a tad misty-eyed while recalling a enjoyable weekend in Rothesay in September 1997, when the SNP conference and assorted hangers-on like myself rolled into town.

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Kenny Farquharson: New school of thought on sectarian debate

THERE is an elephant in the room in the debate about sectarianism in Scotland, and we need to acknowledge it’s there. To do so, I’m aware, is to risk fuelling yet more bigotry and bile. But in an otherwise thorough debate about the Old Firm, parcel bombs and ingrained religious intolerance, it would make no sense to avoid it. I’m talking, of course, about our habit of educating Scottish children in separate schools according to their religion.

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