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SINCE Scotland's Future: Your Guide to an Independent Scotland was launched last Tuesday, everyone at Holyrood seems to have had their noses buried in Alex Salmond's White Paper. But the 670-page tome, considered by some to be a work of fiction, is not exactly a page-turner, so Dog can forgive STV political editor Bernard Ponsonby for skipping bits of it before interviewing the First Minister. This became apparent when the broadcaster confessed his concern that the one question he personally wants answered on independence had not featured in the White Paper: whether or not a separate Scotland would be able to compete for the Eurovision Song Contest. Actually, it does, on page 532. Nul points to Ponsonby. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

IT was the SNP that insisted the publication of its White Paper last week was a 'key moment' in the independence referendum campaign. So the revelation, in an opinion poll carried out for The Scottish Mail on Sunday by Progressive Scottish Opinion, that support for a Yes vote remains becalmed exactly where it was a month ago, at 27 per cent, is a devastating setback for Alex Salmond. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]