Theresa May’s Masterplan 179
Posted on
September 21, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
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The King Of Opposite World 240
Posted on
September 20, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We think it’s fair to say that our bestest friend in all of the internet, Scottish Labour activist Duncan Hothersall, is absolutely hopping mad about the latest developments in our court case against the branch office’s former leader Kezia Dugdale.
But keen followers of Dunc might particularly enjoy this demonstration of his legendary grasp of fine factual detail.
So for old times’ sake, let’s have a Kezia Dugdale(-Related) Fact Check.
Cash in, cash out 145
Posted on
September 19, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We’ve got to admit, the Yorkshire chap makes a fair point.
What isn’t a fact 253
Posted on
September 18, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
God bless our dear old pals at the Labour-fronted Tory money-sink that is Scotland In Union. Fresh from their latest stirring morning office singalong of “No Pope Of Rome”, they’ve decided to belatedly get in on the fact-checking game.
As the established force in the field, we had to have a look.
Everybody but you 256
Posted on
September 17, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
There’s a fascinating piece in the Guardian this morning.
It reveals that in attempting to solve the unsolvable Irish border problem, the EU’s Brexit negotiators are – at the UK’s behest – trying to come up with a plan which would preclude its use for Scotland in the event of independence.
That’s an entirely legitimate course of action. Having lacked the courage to establish itself as a nation, Scotland shouldn’t expect to be treated as one by either the EU or the UK (which has demonstrated its contempt by flatly refusing Scotland any voice in negotiations). The EU is quite properly, and admirably stoutly, defending the interests of its member state, Ireland. Would that Scotland had such clout.
But it’s worth taking a second to ponder what it all means.
The tin-eared soldier 191
Posted on
September 14, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Vince Cable, who was once apparently some sort of politician, took it upon himself to issue an opinion yesterday on the subject of referendums that had independence supporters on social media hooting with mocking laughter long into the night.
The estimable Wee Ginger Dug has already dealt adroitly with just the 300 or so most obviously ridiculous aspects of Cable’s tone-deaf and spectacularly hypocritical view, so we won’t step on his paws by repeating them here.
Instead we thought we’d do what we do best, and check the facts.
Dunbar: A Lesson From History 165
Posted on
September 13, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
As certain elements of the Yes movement do their best (yet again) to foment some sort of civil war over a popular 1990s movie for no better reason than to draw a little bit of attention to themselves in the face of rapidly-plummetting readership and influence, we found ourselves instead pondering a different Scottish historical battle today.
We’ll leave it at that.
The Chords Of Damocles 223
Posted on
September 12, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Readers may have noted a fairly concerted attempt over the last 18 months or so by the opponents of Scottish independence to get Wings Over Scotland shut down. But sometimes the greatest danger comes from the people you least suspect.
Because the thing SNP MP Pete Wishart is lauding in that tweet earlier today, and has been agitating for for months, would, without a shadow of a doubt, kill this website and scores of others like it overnight.
Counting the hours 58
Posted on
September 12, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The Scottish Daily Mail fished this story out of the news toilet today:
So “man with major and important job gets paid the same rate for a full day’s work as Britain’s 800+ Lords and Ladies do for signing in for five minutes and then going home“ is apparently a shock-horror scoop now. But it gets better.
Counting With Cretins 252
Posted on
September 11, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
There’s not much going on in Scottish politics at the moment, but you know that when the media resorts to printing stuff from echo-skulled Tory mousewit Annie Wells, there can’t even have been any barrel left to scrape.
Grimly, the spelling in the headline is the LEAST embarrassing facet of the story.
Data in depth 110
Posted on
September 07, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Last night we stumbled across an interesting little statistical wrinkle to our story from Wednesday about voters’ satisfaction with Scottish public services.
The middle set of figures there is especially revealing.
The Borders Railway Disaster 220
Posted on
September 06, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
There’s a very weird story in the Scotsman today.
As alert readers will have noticed from the third paragraph, the headline is actually an inexplicably negative spin on the fact that journeys on the line INCREASED last year by 5.8% to a new record high of 1.5 million.
