Jon Snow
To me, as an Englishman who has scoured his family tree in search of Celtic blood and sadly found none, Scottish independence would feel like an amputation, an impoverishment of who we are.
Gary Gibbon
Gordon Brown had been intending to give the all-party Better Together campaign a wide berth. But then the narrowing of the polls happened. And in Scotland the former PM still has a lot of weight.
Cathy Newman
Many more women have been elected to political office in Scotland than at Westminster, but female voters remain sceptical about independence.
Liam Dutton
As the Scots vote on independence, one aspect of the country seems to already have gone its own way – its weather. So is the notion of dull drizzle and biting blizzards myth or reality?
Gary Gibbon
Gordon Brown is out-flanking quite a few in his party with his prescription for how far Scottish devolution should go.
Gary Gibbon
The no camp set out to vanquish independence and keep yes support in the low 30s. I haven’t heard many no campaigners predict the “low 30s” for the yes campaign in some time.
Gary Gibbon
The PM is whizzing into Aberdeen, the granite city, on an RAF flight that the SNP MP Angus Robertson has coined “Scare Force One”.
Gary Gibbon
Jose Manuel Barroso thinks copy-cat separatist movements infused with hope by a successful Scottish independence campaign could take off and threaten the entire EU project.
Gary Gibbon
Jose Manuel Barroso’s first salvo against Scottish independence shows how EU countries, afraid of the boat being rocked, are the main obstacle to membership.
Scotland’s first minister insists there is a “very, very powerful argument” for Scotland to retain use of sterling. FactCheck investigates.
Gary Gibbon
Alex Salmond restrained himself from the usual swatting of unappealing questioners. He made a page reference to his weighty document in almost every answer like a clergyman citing the Bible.
The Scottish government has insisted that it will inherit its “fair share” of UK defence assets if it becomes independent. But FactCheck finds a report from the government begs to differ.
Scotland would face a yawning “fiscal gap” if it left the UK, according to the respected Institute for Fiscal Studies. What is it and what does it mean for the independence debate?
Gary Gibbon
A new crystal-gazing IFS report concludes that an independent Scotland would need to raise £6bn each year starting in the 2020s – either through extra tax, spending cuts or a combination of the two.
Gary Gibbon
Nick Clegg has decided the Scottish independence battle needs a more pugilistic approach.