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The Super-Duper Mega Vow Deluxe Plus 126

Posted on February 02, 2015 by

We’ve already said all we’ve got to say on this one.

Too busy for quitting 192

Posted on February 01, 2015 by

We haven’t done a monthly stats post for a few months, partly because naturally traffic’s been down after the insane spike of last September, partly because we had two weeks off in October (and a semi-break over Christmas and New Year), and partly because we’ve moved to new, more accurate and more detailed figures direct from our webhost and January was the first full month of them.

So here, for those of you who like to keep track, are the headlines:

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We’re pretty blown away by that, to be honest. A tiny fraction shy of 300,000 unique readers (in what’s traditionally a very slow month for politics, and one we didn’t really start until the second week) is 157% up on a year ago, and nearly 50,000 higher than last May, which was the all-time high until the mad last few weeks of the referendum campaign. (It’s the 3rd-highest ever, after September and August 2014.)

If you’d told us we’d be anywhere near those sorts of numbers four months after a No vote (or indeed if we’d even still be going four months after a No vote), we’d have said you were missing a few marbles. But as long as you’re still here, we will be too*.

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A slow politics day 65

Posted on February 01, 2015 by

Blah blah Jim Murphy blah blah idiot something.

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The way this match is going, we’ll see you sometime in April.

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    • Northcode on The Idiot Rodeo: ““Oh, what bitterness cleaves to envy’s sting!” – Dante Alighieri The Union is a monstrous joke, and very far from…Dec 17, 22:34
    • Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh on The Idiot Rodeo: “Excerpt from Paul Henderson Scott’s book entitled: ANDREW FLETCHER AND THE TREATY OF UNION « A whole succession of events…Dec 17, 22:26
    • Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh on The Idiot Rodeo: “Maybe relevant to draw attention to the book: ‘SCOTLAND’S RUINE’ : LOCKHART OF CARNWATH’S MEMOIRS OF THE UNION (Edited by…Dec 17, 22:18
    • DaveL on The Idiot Rodeo: “Both of you will still be unionist morons, so no change there then. That’s not an assumption either, that’s a…Dec 17, 21:48
    • Lorncal on The Idiot Rodeo: “Every law that passes in the Westminster parliament must be passed by a majority of Scottish MPs to become Scottish…Dec 17, 21:13
    • Alf Baird on The Idiot Rodeo: ““Aidan bigging up Auld Reekie and the trams!” Aye, anither ‘new Scot’ that disna ken hee haw aboot Auld Reekie…Dec 17, 20:48
    • Dan on The Idiot Rodeo: “FFS, just noticed Aidan bigging up Auld Reekie and the trams! Jeezo, yet another ill thought out transport clusterfuck reckoned…Dec 17, 20:24
    • Hatey McHateface on The Idiot Rodeo: “Why? What’s he done wrong?Dec 17, 20:13
    • Hatey McHateface on The Idiot Rodeo: “It’s a secret. Sorry.Dec 17, 20:07
    • Hatey McHateface on The Idiot Rodeo: “FFS Beggan. Round and round the rugged rock the ragged rascal ran.Dec 17, 20:05
    • Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh on The Idiot Rodeo: “SECRET RECEIPTS that influenced UNION WITH IRELAND | David Olusoga 3 mins video www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzW0GeoO3IgDec 17, 20:01
    • Hatey McHateface on The Idiot Rodeo: “Looks like it falls to me to once again validate your miserable existence, Northy. Weel done. Guid dug. Here’s a…Dec 17, 19:59
    • agentx on The Idiot Rodeo: “If and that is a big “IF”, everything that James Cheyne says is correct, what do people assume, and that…Dec 17, 19:54
    • Hatey McHateface on The Idiot Rodeo: “Wow, Alf and Northy, together leading us into the Promised Land. A union that doesn’t exist, a colonial oppression the…Dec 17, 19:52
    • Hatey McHateface on The Idiot Rodeo: “Sounds like a nice little earner, sarah. Just mak siccar you declare your profit to the Inland Revenue. They’re an…Dec 17, 19:39
    • sarah on The Idiot Rodeo: ““Scum” is the perfect term, Marie!Dec 17, 19:19
    • Alf Baird on The Idiot Rodeo: “” proof positive that Scotland is an illegally annexed province of England” Aye Northcode, mebbe the Rev an aw Scots…Dec 17, 19:06
    • Marie on The Idiot Rodeo: “@Dan 17.15 How about “scum”? Scum usually rises to the top.Dec 17, 18:46
    • Captain Caveman on The Idiot Rodeo: “Ignoramo|, certainly.Dec 17, 17:46
    • Dan on The Idiot Rodeo: “I think it is well past the time that we addressed the matter of referring to those in positions of…Dec 17, 17:16
    • Alf Baird on The Idiot Rodeo: “Aye, thon Union’s aye a muckle fankle, its aw a massive colonial hoax, James. As Professor Black confirms, England’s pairlament…Dec 17, 16:37
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    • James on The Idiot Rodeo: “Ditto.Dec 17, 15:25
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    • James Cheyne on The Idiot Rodeo: “The security and evidence of a treaty between Scotland and England still would require trials by jury in Scotland, and…Dec 17, 14:57
    • James Cheyne on The Idiot Rodeo: “The propaganda confusion over the treaty of union between Scotland and England does not enhance the devolved parliament or the…Dec 17, 14:30
    • James Cheyne on The Idiot Rodeo: “Sarah. Much appreciated by myself, and I am sure it is by Alf and North code,Dec 17, 14:16
    • James Cheyne on The Idiot Rodeo: “Difficult sometime to understand, But the parliament of great Britain came under dissolution by the united kingdoms of the Great…Dec 17, 14:08
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