The Scotsman opinion piece, on UK Politics, 12 November 2026
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Read the original article on scotsman.com (opens in a new tab)William Deans argues in a Scotsman column that SNP claims that independence is inevitable are a political weakness, and uses the Republican losses in the US midterm elections as a cautionary comparison. The piece is an argument against Scottish nationalism, and its argument is not a finding. Nothing in it misleads the reader on any ground an opinion piece is judged on: it attributes the claim it attacks to named politicians, ties no one to a grave third party and vilifies no community.
Opinion piece: read for false claims of fact and for fairness to the people it names, not for its opinions.
“with the minister for public finance, Hannah Mary Goodlad, being just the latest to trot out the claim last week”
Deans attributes the claim he argues against to a named minister rather than pinning it vaguely on a whole movement, so the reader knows who said it.
“plenty of risk to democratic institutions and basic good governance remains”
Deans qualifies his own comparison and does not overstate what the midterm result means, which keeps the argument within what it can support.
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