We haven’t seen this published anywhere else, so we may as well do it. We dropped a brief line to the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust a few days ago querying their award of a £50,000 grant to disgraced lying MP Alistair Carmichael, specifically in the context of the fact that their own website expressly excludes grants for “legal fees”.
Kezia Dugdale gave an interview to Good Morning Scotland earlier today that viewed from above would probably look rather like the runway at Baghdad Airport in 1991.
If we tried to pick out all the individual bomb craters in one post, readers’ eyes would glaze over long before the end. So we’re going to have to do it in bits.
When we ran this story on Monday, some of the press got rather upset with us. Even though we’d linked to the full data tables published on the ComRes site, Scottish Daily Mail political editor Alan Roden, for example, huffily tweeted a link to a cropped table suggesting that the real sample size was higher.
STV’s Bernard Ponsonby asks Kezia Dugdale about the possibility of a future second referendum should the Scottish electorate express a clear democratic wish for one:
(Not taken out of context. To see the full clip, go to around 1h 43m here.)
Alert readers will have noticed that the Conservatives and most of the right-wing press have recently embarked on a hyperbolic campaign against the Scottish Government’s “named person” child-protection legislation. The latest assault is in today’s Daily Mail:
The shriekingly furious lead article thunders in outrage that “nearly two thirds of Scots have condemned the SNP’s state guardian scheme as an ‘unacceptable intrusion’ into family life”, which sounds like a pretty damning verdict.
It’s not until you look a little deeper that it all falls to pieces.
We had a little Twitter run-in last night with former Scottish Labour deputy leader and current unemployed halfwit Anas Sarwar, when he reported us to Police Scotland for making a joke about bank holiday mail deliveries, “people in England” and “especially” Scottish ones – which of course includes this site’s own editor, that being the gag.
We’d almost forgotten he existed. But the incident brought something back to mind.
To be fair to Mr Sarwar, he was at least partly right.
Hatey McHateface on Freedom of choice: “Not the first time you’ve tried to claim the Brits forced them to slaughter each other in their millions. No…” Jan 29, 20:07
Effijy on Freedom of choice: “Rosie Duffield’s resignation letter from the Labour Party. The 53-year-old MP sent a scathing resignation letter to Sir Keir Starmer…” Jan 29, 20:01
Hatey McHateface on Freedom of choice: “Germany’s AfD making history tonight. They’ve managed to get a majority to vote for their kind of “blood and soil”…” Jan 29, 20:00
Dan on Freedom of choice: “You need to stop spouting pish that Scotland is only in surplus when the wind is blowing strongly as it’s…” Jan 29, 19:56
willie on Freedom of choice: “Ah Hatey, I’m m not fooled by all this nonsense that renewable energy is a blessing or as you say…” Jan 29, 19:50
Kit Bee on Freedom of choice: “Girls raped by men shocker!” Jan 29, 19:45
Hatey McHateface on Freedom of choice: “They winna dae that, gregor, they’ve already promised the last set of tax rises are enough. It’s like the rumours…” Jan 29, 19:45
Kit Bee on Freedom of choice: “Inglorious Empire is a great read.” Jan 29, 19:44
sam on Freedom of choice: “The departure from colonial India should not be overlooked. “It was hardly a joyous moment: A botched process of partition…” Jan 29, 19:44
willie on Freedom of choice: “Any guesses Fergus how much Westminster has drained out of Scotland or is it region of subsidy junkies?” Jan 29, 19:41
willie on Freedom of choice: “I’d pay a licence for Disney before I’d pay a licence for the BBC. The BBC is pure propaganda where…” Jan 29, 19:37
Hatey McHateface on Freedom of choice: “I don’t doubt any of that, Dan. My point is that there’s a common misconception that green energy is going…” Jan 29, 19:27
gregor on Freedom of choice: “Kendrick Lamar: King Kunta: “Bitch where you when I was walkin’? Now I run the game got the whole world…” Jan 29, 19:18
factfinder on Freedom of choice: “Interesting fact – at the time slavery was abolished throughout the British Empire, Scots owned more slaves on a population…” Jan 29, 19:09
Dan on Freedom of choice: “Remember we also got those swanky new Queen Elizabeth House in Edinburgh and Atlantic Square in Glasgow buildings thrown up…” Jan 29, 19:09
Hatey McHateface on Saying sooths: “I was kinda nodding along, Xaracen, even although I thought you were taking a bleedin liberty by ignoring Wales and…” Jan 29, 19:04
Dan on Freedom of choice: “And England is still burning gas in CCGT stations to produce 38% of its demand. https://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/ About 65% of UK…” Jan 29, 19:03
factfinder on Freedom of choice: “Allow me to waffle the same pish (no typo), I was asking for help. I would like to know of…” Jan 29, 19:02
gregor on Saying sooths: “Product manager McDuff’s descriptions put SNP to shame: #DefectiveSNPProduct” Jan 29, 18:58
Mark Beggan on Freedom of choice: “So everyone wants to be Trumps friend now. He’s not a danger to mankind after all.” Jan 29, 18:58
Hatey McHateface on Freedom of choice: “Does it explain why the descendants of the colonised and inhumanely treated now believe they can come here and rape…” Jan 29, 18:57
Dan on Freedom of choice: “It wasn’t “blowing strongly” today yet some of the windfarms in Scotland’s geographic territory were stuck on curtailment mode for…” Jan 29, 18:55
Hatey McHateface on Freedom of choice: “Unmissable? Somehow or other I missed it.” Jan 29, 18:47
gregor on Freedom of choice: “Braw – there is choice (yippee:)” Jan 29, 18:40
gregor on Freedom of choice: “@PeteWishart has blocked you: “Scottish Labour MPs (and a Scot Lib Dem) attacking the SNP in, wait for it, Welsh…” Jan 29, 18:33
Aidan on Freedom of choice: “Did you miss the newly rebuilt Queen Street station in George Square?” Jan 29, 18:06
James Gardner on Saying sooths: “The fact that Scots are denied even the choice of having another referendum is proof positive that the United Kingdom…” Jan 29, 18:02
agent X on Freedom of choice: “Forbes said: “The SNP will never give up on independence. “We will never give up on pursuing independence, and you…” Jan 29, 17:59
Aidan on Saying sooths: “I haven’t addressed any of the arguments that you made because you didn’t address any of mine. I understand the…” Jan 29, 17:54
