The invisible members 291
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September 08, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
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Thought for the day 64
Posted on
September 08, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We can’t help wondering if the Church Of England’s “Daily Prayer” this morning was chosen while looking north towards a certain Scottish Lib Dem MP in his time of trial.
If such things are your inclination, readers, pray for Alistair.
Tory Councillor Of The Day 102
Posted on
September 07, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Group D at a glance 40
Posted on
September 07, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Tonight’s games went as badly as they could have done for Scotland, pretty much as we suggested they would at the weekend, after a truly abysmal Scottish performance (an embarrassing 28% possession) saw them beaten 3-2 by Germany while Ireland scraped past Georgia 1-0.
But as we also said, and despite the clueless honkings of just about every pundit working in a TV studio tonight, it didn’t actually damage the team’s chances of making the playoffs very much.
Here’s your quick guide to where things stand.
Meanwhile in the real world 130
Posted on
September 07, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
As we write, Alistair Carmichael’s QC is two hours into a seemingly-interminable drone in an Edinburgh courtroom, in a case brought by ordinary citizens against a former government minister funded by a public appeal. Our own recent fundraiser, inspired by a case a world away from such high-minded concerns, closed a few days ago on a phenomenal total of £16,083.
Indiegogo have now disbursed the first half of the money (the rest, specifically that part that was donated by credit card, should follow in the next fortnight), so now we need to decide what to do with it.
So you don’t have to 133
Posted on
September 07, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Glass half-chucked 165
Posted on
September 06, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
A very brief post about football, because it was irritating to listen to the avalanche of gloom on social media on Friday night as Scotland lost to Georgia (again), and then have to watch this honking oaf go trolling.
Shut your faces, all of you.
Nothing but repeats 193
Posted on
September 04, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Summer is, as we’ve said before, the “silly season” for politics. Wings readers will have noticed that like everywhere else, we’ve been rather lighter on content than usual for the last three months as politicians celebrated their general election victories by giving themselves long holidays – sorry, “time for constituency work” – and in the absence of a referendum campaign to fill the gap there wasn’t much going on.
So we can’t blame the media for raking over old ground in search of anything to fill threadbare column inches with. But it’s less excusable when the things they choose to reheat, repackage and reissue are ancient, endlessly-disproven lies.
Conservative and Unionist of the day 218
Posted on
September 03, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Party member. We’re sure Ruth Davidson (who follows him) will take prompt action.
She will, won’t she?
We don’t not need no education 360
Posted on
September 02, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Kezia Dugdale in the Scottish Parliament yesterday:
The daughter of two teachers, there.
The lesser of two stupids 673
Posted on
September 01, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Let’s start off by losing some more friends. This site has no time for the Gaelic lobby. The obsolete language spoken by just 0.9% of Scotland’s population might be part of the nation’s “cultural heritage”, but so were burning witches and replacing Highlanders with sheep and we don’t do those any more either.
Being multilingual is an excellent thing, but the significant amount of time and effort taken to learn a literally-pointless second language (because everyone you can talk to in Gaelic already understood English) would be vastly better directed to picking up one that was actually of some use, and every extra fraction of a second spent scanning a road sign trying to find the bit you can read is a fraction of a second spent with your eyes off the road.
Non-primary native languages are a tool whose main utility in practice is at best the exclusion of outsiders, and at worst an expression of dodgy blood-and-soil ethnic nationalism. They’re a barrier to communication and an irritation to the vast majority of the population, who are made to feel like uncultured aliens in their own land.
But we’d still rather put up with Gaelic than complete idiots making our laws.
The new binary 254
Posted on
August 31, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We can’t help feeling there’s a simpler way of putting that.
