Referendum round-up: Highlander | New opinion poll

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Get the latest on the referendum on our Scottish independence site. Picture: Jane BarlowGet the latest on the referendum on our Scottish independence site. Picture: Jane Barlow
Get the latest on the referendum on our Scottish independence site. Picture: Jane Barlow

TODAY’S MAIN NEWS:

An audience member at the BBC’s Question Time in Inverness has become an internet smash hit after delivering a 30-second polemic in support of the UK.

Nigel Hanlin’s intervention was the most talked-about topic on Twitter in the UK last night - watch the video here.

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Polling firm Survation have recorded the highest-ever level of support for a ‘Yes’ vote in September’s Scottish independence referendum in their latest opinion poll. The poll was carried out for the Daily Record and Dundee University.

Meanwhile, former Nato secretary-general Lord George Robertson has claimed that Scottish independence would be “very bad news” for the whisky industry, and the Deputy First Minister has said pensioners in Scotland could be around £260 a year better off after independence.

COMMENT AND ANALYSIS:

Our Scottish independence site showcases some of the best comment, analysis and opinion from across the web; here are some of our favourite articles from the last 24 hours.

• National Collective’s Yestival arts event continues to tour the country, making its latest stop in Edinburgh. Andrew Redmond Barr recaps the event in this diary piece.

• The Independent’s Chris Green looks at the potential impact of the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games on the Scottish independence referendum.

• The New Statesman’s Jamie Maxwell responds to Gerry Hassan of the Scottish Review, who called for left-wing activists and thinkers to think in a more radical way in an article released this week.

• All nationalists are patriots but not all patriots are nationalists and the Yes campaign would do well to remember it, writes John McTernan.

• Labour MP Jim Murphy continues his journey around 100 Scottish locations ahead of the referendum, recapping the journey so far in this blog.

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• The residents of Largs give the BBC’s Daily Politics their thoughts on the referendum campaign, with around half of those polled saying they feel informed on the debate and the remaining respondents feeling uninformed. Watch the video here.

• Alasdair Gillon reflects on his experiences of Scotland and Spain as he calls for Scottish independence to bring social democracy to the country in this piece for National Collective.

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