SCOT goes POP!

Not "hatred" or "bigotry" after all: in stunning turnaround, the British establishment decides that it is OK to want a national football team to lose for political reasons

2026-07-17T12:42:42.754+01:00

An audio podcast version of the above video can be heard HERE, and will soon be available on Apple Podcasts HERE.

Other recent videos:

"Self-Determination for the Falklands but NOT for Scotland!" - World Cup exposes WEIRD contradiction

SNP vote INCREASES in Larkhall by-election as Burnham FAILS his first Scottish electoral test

Disaster for Burnham as Labour languish in JOINT THIRD in YouGov Scottish subsample

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"Democratic Self-Determination for the Falkland Islands but NOT for Scotland!" - World Cup exposes WEIRD contradiction in British imperial logic

2026-07-14T18:56:21.481+01:00

An audio podcast version of the above video can be heard HERE, and will soon be available on Apple Podcasts HERE.

Other recent videos:

"Self-Determination for the Falklands but NOT for Scotland!" - World Cup exposes WEIRD contradiction

SNP vote INCREASES in Larkhall by-election as Burnham FAILS his first Scottish electoral test

Disaster for Burnham as Labour languish in JOINT THIRD in YouGov Scottish subsample

SNP vote INCREASES in Larkhall by-election as Burnham FAILS his first Scottish electoral test

2026-07-13T00:24:15.411+01:00

An audio podcast version of the above video can be heard HERE, and will soon be available on Apple Podcasts HERE.

Other recent videos:

Disaster for Burnham as Labour languish in JOINT THIRD in YouGov Scottish subsample

Another stunning SNP by-election GAIN as the Tories go into FREEFALL in the north-east of Scotland

Burnham in danger of making government from Manchester as remote and alien as government from London

Why so many Scots want NORWAY to beat England in the World Cup: three CRACKING reasons

2026-07-10T14:20:12.942+01:00

An audio podcast version of the above video can be heard HERE, and will soon be available on Apple Podcasts HERE.

Other recent videos:

Disaster for Burnham as Labour languish in JOINT THIRD in YouGov Scottish subsample

Another stunning SNP by-election GAIN as the Tories go into FREEFALL in the north-east of Scotland

Burnham in danger of making government from Manchester as remote and alien as government from London

Disaster for Burnham as Labour languish in JOINT THIRD in YouGov Scottish subsample

2026-07-08T15:01:24.364+01:00

An audio podcast version of the above video can be heard HERE, and will soon be available on Apple Podcasts HERE.

Other recent videos:

Another stunning SNP by-election GAIN as the Tories go into FREEFALL in the north-east of Scotland

Burnham in danger of making government from Manchester as remote and alien as government from London

Yet another poll suggests Burnham surge is a damp squib - SNP dominant in Scottish subsample

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Another stunning SNP by-election GAIN as the Tories go into FREEFALL in the north-east of Scotland

2026-07-04T14:11:50.288+01:00

An audio podcast version of the above video can be heard HERE, and will soon be available on Apple Podcasts HERE.

A great reply semi-ruined by the final sentence. Stew? In Scotland?! The very thought! https://t.co/xt4ltJ4enm
— James Kelly (@JamesKelly) July 3, 2026

There are only two places in the Universe According To Andy: London and Manchester. Live in both, understand them both - and you, my friend, have got it licked. https://t.co/GHH2aN6GL1
— James Kelly (@JamesKelly) July 3, 2026

Although I have some sympathy with this tweet, the idea that Birmingham is "the middle" simply reinforces the absurdity of Burnham's own worldview. Manchester itself is roughly in the middle of the UK. To treat it as the northern extreme leaves half of the landmass invisible. https://t.co/GEHnpNrueF
— James Kelly (@JamesKelly) July 3, 2026

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"IS THAT IT, ANDY?!" Only a 2% Burnham bounce for Labour with YouGov, as SNP dominate the Scottish subsample

2026-07-01T11:59:46.220+01:00

An audio podcast version of the above video can be heard HERE, and will soon be available on Apple Podcasts HERE.

Other recent videos:

Burnham in danger of making government from Manchester as remote and alien as government from London

Yet another poll suggests Burnham surge is a damp squib - SNP dominant in Scottish subsample

Scotland immune to Burnham effect? SNP buoyed by stellar subsample result in first poll of new era

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King of the South: Andy Burnham will make rule from Manchester as detested in Scotland as rule from London has always been

2026-06-30T03:42:44.300+01:00

An audio podcast version of the above video can be heard HERE, and will soon be available on Apple Podcasts HERE.

Other recent videos:

Yet another poll suggests Burnham surge is a damp squib - SNP dominant in Scottish subsample

Scotland immune to Burnham effect? SNP buoyed by stellar subsample result in first poll of new era

Andy Burnham's plan to rip up the Barnett Formula means he is ripping up Better Together's "Vow"

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Yet another poll suggests Burnham surge is a damp squib - SNP are dominant in the Scottish subsample

2026-06-29T02:28:42.817+01:00

An audio podcast version of the above video can be heard HERE, and will soon be available on Apple Podcasts HERE.

As regular readers may recall, I've been an elected member of the SNP's Policy Development Committee since last October, which meant I had an automatic delegate spot at SNP National Council in Port Glasgow yesterday. As far as I could see the entire event was held in private session without the media being allowed in, so I can't say anything about what happened inside the hall, and instead I'll just give you my now-traditional selfie from outside the venue just to prove that I was there. As I've mentioned once before, the last time I spent any time in Port Glasgow was when I was an extra on the film Anna and the Apocalypse, which entailed being chased down a residential street by zombies, so no jokes please about any similarities or contrasts between the two experiences.

By-election sensation as SNP gain seat in Aberdeen - John Swinney's party are speedily BACK IN BUSINESS in the Granite City

2026-06-27T20:40:43.088+01:00

An audio podcast version of the above video can be heard HERE, and will soon be available on Apple Podcasts HERE.

Other recent videos:

Scotland immune to Burnham effect? SNP buoyed by stellar subsample result in first poll of new era

Andy Burnham's plan to rip up the Barnett Formula means he is ripping up Better Together's "Vow"

Grim news for Labour, but good cheer for the SNP, in first poll of the Burnham transition period

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Scotland immune to Burnham effect? SNP buoyed by stellar subsample result in what is effectively the first poll of the Burnham era

2026-06-26T09:27:11.684+01:00

An audio podcast version of the above video can be heard HERE, and will soon be available on Apple Podcasts HERE.

Other recent videos:

Andy Burnham's plan to rip up the Barnett Formula means he is ripping up Better Together's "Vow"

Grim news for Labour, but good cheer for the SNP, in first poll of the Burnham transition period

Keir Starmer's resignation as Prime Minister has made Scottish independence INEVITABLE

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How it is still mathematically possible for Scotland to qualify for the second round of the World Cup (yes, it's that time already!)

2026-06-25T14:12:12.856+01:00

An audio podcast version of the above video can be heard HERE, and will soon be available on Apple Podcasts HERE.

Other recent videos:

Andy Burnham's plan to rip up the Barnett Formula means he is ripping up Better Together's "Vow"

Grim news for Labour, but good cheer for the SNP, in first poll of the Burnham transition period

Keir Starmer's resignation as Prime Minister has made Scottish independence INEVITABLE

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REVEALED: Andy Burnham wants to rip up "The Vow", making a second independence referendum INEVITABLE

2026-06-24T03:47:38.163+01:00

An audio podcast version of the above video can be heard HERE, and will soon be available on Apple Podcasts HERE.

Other recent videos:

Grim news for Labour, but good cheer for the SNP, in first poll of the Burnham transition period

Keir Starmer's resignation as Prime Minister has made Scottish independence INEVITABLE

SNP settle for one by-election win out of two - but Keir Starmer will only be settling for a taxi

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Grim news for Labour, but good cheer for the SNP, in first poll of the Burnham transition period

2026-06-23T14:27:23.959+01:00

An audio podcast version of the above video can be heard HERE, and will soon be available on Apple Podcasts HERE.

Other recent videos:

Keir Starmer's resignation as Prime Minister has made Scottish independence INEVITABLE

SNP settle for one by-election win out of two - but Keir Starmer will only be settling for a taxi

New low for BBC as they abuse Scottish World Cup coverage as a licence fee enforcement opportunity

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Keir Starmer's resignation as Prime Minister has made Scottish independence INEVITABLE

2026-06-22T15:17:22.738+01:00

An audio podcast version of the above video can be heard HERE, and will soon be available on Apple Podcasts HERE.

Other recent videos:

SNP settle for one by-election win out of two - but Keir Starmer will only be settling for a taxi

New low for BBC as they abuse Scottish World Cup coverage as a licence fee enforcement opportunity

BOMBSHELL as French Government reveals there was Israeli interference in the Scottish election

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SNP settle for one by-election win out of two - but Keir Starmer will only be settling for a taxi

2026-06-19T14:27:56.080+01:00

An audio podcast version of the above video can be heard HERE, and will soon be available on Apple Podcasts HERE.

Other recent videos:

New low for BBC as they abuse Scottish World Cup coverage as a licence fee enforcement opportunity

BOMBSHELL as French Government reveals there was Israeli interference in the Scottish election

Of course Good Morning Britain should apologise for its anti-Scottish chauvinism - but it won't

By-election analysis

2026-06-19T10:50:00.836+01:00

Just a quick note to let you know that I have a new article at The National analysing last night's three by-election results, which you can read HERE. I'll try to make a video later on as well, although having stayed up most of the night, I'm a bit groggy-eyed at the moment.

Burnham still in the danger zone in Makerfield by-election, say two out of the three most recent polls

2026-06-17T07:49:13.939+01:00

An audio podcast version of the above video can be heard HERE, and will soon be available on Apple Podcasts HERE.

Other recent videos:

New low for BBC as they abuse Scottish World Cup coverage as a licence fee enforcement opportunity

BOMBSHELL as French Government reveals there was Israeli interference in the Scottish election

Of course Good Morning Britain should apologise for its anti-Scottish chauvinism - but it won't

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This tweet should result in the end of Tapp's career. No politician with a shred of decency or integrity asks a question that his own government has made it illegal to answer. https://t.co/5sN4kK6VuX
— James Kelly (@JamesKelly) June 16, 2026

New low for BBC as they abuse Scottish World Cup coverage as a licence fee enforcement opportunity

2026-06-14T15:01:59.741+01:00

An audio podcast version of the above video can be heard HERE, and will soon be available on Apple Podcasts HERE.

Other recent videos:

BOMBSHELL as French Government reveals there was Israeli interference in the Scottish election

Of course Good Morning Britain should apologise for its anti-Scottish chauvinism - but it won't

Sparkling YouGov subsample puts spring in SNP's step as crucial by-elections approach

BOMBSHELL as French Government reveals there was Israeli interference in the Scottish election

2026-06-12T19:10:24.033+01:00

An audio podcast version of the above video can be heard HERE, and will soon be available on Apple Podcasts HERE.

Other recent videos:

Of course Good Morning Britain should apologise for its anti-Scottish chauvinism - but it won't

Sparkling YouGov subsample puts spring in SNP's step as crucial by-elections approach

BIG BOOST for independence support in pre-election YouGov poll that no-one seemed to notice

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Of course Good Morning Britain should apologise for its anti-Scottish chauvinism - but it won't

2026-06-10T13:49:00.644+01:00

An audio podcast version of the above video can be heard HERE, and will soon be available on Apple Podcasts HERE.

Other recent videos:

Sparkling YouGov subsample puts spring in SNP's step as crucial by-elections approach

BIG BOOST for independence support in pre-election YouGov poll that no-one seemed to notice

If this Makerfield by-election poll is accurate, it's the end of the road for Keir Starmer as PM

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Sparkling YouGov subsample puts spring in SNP's step as crucial by-elections approach

2026-06-09T20:16:44.439+01:00

An audio podcast version of the above video can be heard HERE, and will soon be available on Apple Podcasts HERE.

Other recent videos:

BIG BOOST for independence support in pre-election YouGov poll that no-one seemed to notice

If this Makerfield by-election poll is accurate, it's the end of the road for Keir Starmer as PM

RUPERT LOWE could be the midwife of Scottish independence, just as Mrs Thatcher was for devolution

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The Scot Goes Popcast is now available on Apple Podcasts

2026-06-08T01:47:44.508+01:00

I hope this will be of some use to someone, because it's taken me days of torture to get to this point. Apple may be one of the largest companies in the world, but its website is a baffling, bug-ridden mess. Five long years after my first failed attempt, I finally seem to have navigated all of the exotic obstacles and got the Scot Goes Popcast onto Apple Podcasts, and you can find it HERE. And before anyone asks, it's already on Spotify and has been since 2021. It suddenly seems to be on quite a few other podcast platforms as well, although in most cases I'm not entirely sure that was my own doing.

Just to be clear about what the Popcast actually is, it's basically audio versions of some of my YouTube videos from the last year or so (not all of them), plus the back catalogue from 2021-22 when I was making a conventional podcast intended primarily for audio, although I later stuck the majority of the episodes on YouTube anyway. In most of those, I was interviewing guests, including the likes of Tim Rideout, Alex Salmond and Len Pennie.

Bear in mind that in contrast to the YouTube videos, I will not be receiving any passive advertising revenues from the audio-only uploads, so putting the Popcast on Apple could in a sense end up being harmful if it diverts any traffic away from my YouTube channel. So if you'd like to help keep the content I produce sustainable, just a reminder that I now have a Ko-Fi page, where you can either set up a small recurring monthly subscription, or make a one-off donation.

Thank you to the several people who urged me to keep trying with Apple - it would have been annoying to be defeated by the glitches.

BIG BOOST for independence support in pre-election YouGov poll that no-one seemed to notice

2026-06-07T13:56:05.997+01:00

An audio podcast version of the above video can be heard HERE.

Other recent videos:

If this Makerfield by-election poll is accurate, it's the end of the road for Keir Starmer as PM

RUPERT LOWE could be the midwife of Scottish independence, just as Mrs Thatcher was for devolution

ONE-FIFTH of Reform UK voters in Scotland would vote Yes to independence, says new Norstat poll

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An examination of the latest Hullaba-Stew

2026-06-06T18:36:58.326+01:00

Never one to resist an exercise in utter futility, the controversial Somerset-based "Stew" blogger has attempted to resuscitate a correspondence with the Chief Constable and the Crown Office that has clearly already been closed. What is perhaps more disturbing is that he has issued a fairly clear threat to get his readers and their money directly involved in the futility by crowdfunding a judicial review bid - which would likely be a repeat of the "Wings Of Justice" calamity when Stew's readers were coaxed into chucking eye-watering amounts of cash down a bottomless pit in pursuit of a hopeless vanity-driven defamation case against Kezia Dugdale. That said, it was for the most part good independence supporters who had their money wasted on the Dugdale case, whereas the dwindling ranks of Stew Devotees that remain now are far more likely to be neo-unionists and soft fascists, so perhaps it won't be quite so harmful this time if tens of thousands of pounds are sucked into the black hole of Loyalty To The Great One.

You don't actually need to be any sort of legal expert to understand why Stew is completely wasting his time here - just elementary logic and basic common sense is enough to tell you that he's arguing on an obviously false premise. He claims that it is "chronologically impossible" for the police to have already investigated the implications of John Swinney's recent statement about how the ringfenced indyref funds were spent, because Operation Branchform concluded before that statement was made. But here's the thing - it's absolutely *not* "chronologically impossible", indeed it's overwhelmingly likely, that either Mr Swinney or others of seniority within the SNP will have earlier made an identical statement in private to the police. Of course the police will have asked where the money went, and of course that question will have been answered. If that answer was investigated to the police's satisfaction, there plainly doesn't need to be a repeat of the investigation simply because Mr Swinney has repeated the answer in public.

Why would the police have been satisfied with the answer? Probably because it touches on such a grey area. If you fundraise for an independence referendum, is it reasonable to spend some of that money by doing preliminary/preparatory campaigning for independence years in advance of any referendum being called? It might well be, but that's in the eye of the beholder. It's not clear-cut. The question the police may have been asking themselves is whether a court could be sure that any reasonable person would definitely take the opposite view, and of course that certainty was never going to be there.

For what it's worth, my own personal view is that Mr Swinney would have been better advised to answer the question about the funds by saying that all of the relevant decisions were made by the previous leadership and that it wasn't for him to second-guess them - all he could answer to was the current financial situation and how funds would be spent from now on. He didn't need to assume responsibility for decisions he didn't actually take - but even having done that, I don't think it's going to do much long-term harm to either himself or the SNP, because it looks increasingly unlikely that any legal complications will occur.

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Catch up with my recent YouTube videos:

If this Makerfield by-election poll is accurate, it's the end of the road for Keir Starmer as PM

RUPERT LOWE could be the midwife of Scottish independence, just as Mrs Thatcher was for devolution

ONE-FIFTH of Reform UK voters in Scotland would vote Yes to independence, says new Norstat poll

ASTOUNDING poll surge for SNP: how Stew's "Accidental Clouseau" moment may have SAVED party he hates

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SCOT goes POP!

Not "hatred" or "bigotry" after all: in stunning turnaround, the British establishment decides that it *is* OK to want a national football team to lose for political reasons

"Democratic Self-Determination for the Falkland Islands but NOT for Scotland!" - World Cup exposes WEIRD contradiction in British imperial logic

SNP vote INCREASES in Larkhall by-election as Burnham FAILS his first Scottish electoral test

Why so many Scots want NORWAY to beat England in the World Cup: three CRACKING reasons

Disaster for Burnham as Labour languish in JOINT THIRD in YouGov Scottish subsample

Another stunning SNP by-election GAIN as the Tories go into FREEFALL in the north-east of Scotland

"IS THAT IT, ANDY?!" Only a 2% Burnham bounce for Labour with YouGov, as SNP dominate the Scottish subsample

King of the South: Andy Burnham will make rule from Manchester as detested in Scotland as rule from London has always been

Yet another poll suggests Burnham surge is a damp squib - SNP are dominant in the Scottish subsample

By-election sensation as SNP *gain* seat in Aberdeen - John Swinney's party are speedily BACK IN BUSINESS in the Granite City

Scotland immune to Burnham effect? SNP buoyed by stellar subsample result in what is effectively the first poll of the Burnham era

How it is still mathematically possible for Scotland to qualify for the second round of the World Cup (yes, it's that time already!)

REVEALED: Andy Burnham wants to rip up "The Vow", making a second independence referendum INEVITABLE

Grim news for Labour, but good cheer for the SNP, in first poll of the Burnham transition period

Keir Starmer's resignation as Prime Minister has made Scottish independence INEVITABLE

SNP settle for one by-election win out of two - but Keir Starmer will only be settling for a taxi

By-election analysis

Burnham still in the danger zone in Makerfield by-election, say two out of the three most recent polls

New low for BBC as they abuse Scottish World Cup coverage as a licence fee enforcement opportunity

BOMBSHELL as French Government reveals there was Israeli interference in the Scottish election

Of course Good Morning Britain should apologise for its anti-Scottish chauvinism - but it won't

Sparkling YouGov subsample puts spring in SNP's step as crucial by-elections approach

The Scot Goes Popcast is now available on Apple Podcasts

BIG BOOST for independence support in pre-election YouGov poll that no-one seemed to notice

An examination of the latest Hullaba-Stew

Not "hatred" or "bigotry" after all: in stunning turnaround, the British establishment decides that it is OK to want a national football team to lose for political reasons

By-election sensation as SNP gain seat in Aberdeen - John Swinney's party are speedily BACK IN BUSINESS in the Granite City