Paul Mason
#Indyref: five questions for Cameron, Miliband and Clegg
I don’t know whether I will bump in to the Westminster party leaders in Scotland today — but this is what I would ask if I did.
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FactCheck: Is an #indyref yes vote forever?
The no campaign has been at great pains to say that a vote to break up the United Kingdom would be irreversible. Is that actually true?
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Gary Gibbon
No camp throw the kitchen sink at it
I find some long-standing devolution supporters who, after month and month of staring at the binary choice on offer, have grown used to the risks, or “bumps” as Alex Salmond calls them, of independence.
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Gary Gibbon
Will ‘almost federal’ offer to Scots change votes?
You find quite a few late-surge yes supporters saying they wish that devo max had been on the ballot paper.
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Paul Mason
Why Brown’s ‘new powers for Scotland’ are a dice roll
Gordon Brown’s “new powers for Scotland” may not be the last throw of the dice for the no campaign – but the proposal is undoubtedly a gambit.
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Alex Thomson
What is England’s view on Scottish independence?
The result of next Thursday’s referendum will be a profoundly important moment for the Union, but nobody outside Scotland will have a vote.
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Gary Gibbon
Will devolution process turn ‘switherers’?
Labour decided the best interests of the cross-party agreement on fast-tracked devolution would be served if they slipped the announcement out early from the lips of Gordon Brown.
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FactCheck: is Scotland’s NHS under threat from Westminster?
Health is one of the key battlegrounds as the independence referendum looks. Will the Scottish NHS be better off in or out of the UK?
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Gary Gibbon
Independence referendum: plenty for Labour to worry about
I found one voter who said he was undecided, 60/40 for independence and who said only one Labour voice might pull him back to the union: Gordon Brown.
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Michael Crick
How ‘nuclear-free’ would an independent Scotland really be?
Alex Salmond has privately told the boss of the energy firm EDF not to worry about future of its nuclear power stations, despite SNP pledge to phase them out.
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Michael Crick
Why next week’s Salmond-Darling debate is so important
As SNP leader Alex Salmond visits the home of the declaration of Arbroath, he needs urgently to narrow the gap in polls between the yes and no voters on Scottish independence.
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Michael Crick
Salmond’s Scottish sporting surge? Perhaps not
Is Alex Salmond hoping to ride a wave of patriotic fervour flowing for the Glasgow Commonwealth Games? If history tells us anything, he may be disappointed.
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Gary Gibbon
Independence, ghosts and ‘Stormont Scotland’
Prof Sir Tom Devine believes that if the yes side win, it will be thanks to something that was for decades unimaginable: Catholics voting for independence.
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FactCheck: will an independent Scotland be better or worse off?
Scots will either be £1,000 better off or £1,400 worse off if they vote for independence, according to the UK and Scottish governments. Who to believe?
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Jon Snow
Immigration and identity in Scotland
Jon Snow spent the day in Govanhill – home to settled and more recent immigrant communities asking how they see themselves and how they might be voting.