Here’s the Herald today on YouGov’s latest independence polling:

All absolutely true. But is it the whole truth?

Above is the whole of the relevant data from YouGov’s Scotland tracker, and alert readers will have instantly noticed a couple of things about it. First, the highly-leading formulation of the question, including the preamble with its talk of “Scotland leaving the United Kingdom” and use of the distorting “if the referendum was tomorrow” premise, both of which tip the balance towards the status quo.

But secondly, the story’s somewhat selective use of data.

The article highlights the lack of change between January and December, and the extremely small one-point change between January and September. But for some reason it omits the November and August data, which paint a rather different picture.

If you compare January to November, the Yes campaign has made up five points of ground in seven weeks. Compare it to August and the advance is eleven points in five months. So from four available comparison points, why pick out only December and September, the two that present an image of stasis that’s at odds with all the other recent polls showing significant movement towards Yes?

You’d have to ask the Herald.