No Scot left behind 83
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September 11, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
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We’re the fire in the sky 188
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September 11, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
I had a night off this evening, readers. Poker and banter and laughs (and a Chinese takeaway) with some chums, a quick stop-off to chat a bit of strategy with the Wings Fulfilment Department and then home. I was just a few yards away when a song came on the stereo and I had to change my mind. I stomped on the accelerator, turned the volume up so loud it was distorting my sense of smell and gunned it out to the hills on the edge of town at full tilt just to feel the cool night breeze and release the pressure.
This one’s for all of us.
Politics is satire plus time 509
Posted on
September 10, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Here’s an image we made back in October 2012:
It’s based on a graphic from the movie version of “V For Vendetta”.
Point and counterpoint 202
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September 10, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Spoiled for choice 133
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September 10, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
George Monbiot in the Guardian, 10 September 2014:
We could have picked almost any paragraph. A tour de force.
A case apart 569
Posted on
September 09, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We’ve long argued that whatever the small print, when it comes to an independent Scotland’s membership of the European Union common sense and realpolitik will prevail, because nobody wants Scotland to be out of the EU for even a day and it’s in nobody’s interests for it to be.
Of course, we’re just some idiots with a website and nobody should listen to OUR opinion about anything. But it seems as though people like Graham Avery (Honorary Director-General of the European Commission), Lord Mark Malloch-Brown, (the former Deputy Secretary-General of the UN) and Sionaidh Douglas-Scott, (author of a book on EU constitutional law and professor of European law and human rights at Oxford University) ought to have a pretty good inside track on Europe stuff.
And if all those still aren’t enough, how about the esteemed Pat Cox, former President of the European Parliament? He ought to know what he’s talking about, right?
A list of nothing 261
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September 09, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The Daily Record today outlines what it’s pushing hard as a triumphant intervention from Gordon Brown which justifies a No vote in the referendum. (It also claims the credit, comically suggesting its Monday front page drove Brown’s announcement.)
It lists “12 new powers” in Brown’s plan. Let’s take a look.
We don’t think we understand 329
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September 08, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We just watched, jaws agape, as the BBC news channel gave Scottish Labour an uninterrupted 50-minute party political broadcast for no immediately obvious reason. It mainly took place at Loanhead Miners’ Welfare, and featured speeches from a warm-up man, then Johann Lamont, and finally Gordon Brown.
The ostensible event justifying this extraordinary coverage lasted just 2m 36s.
And having sat through the whole circus, we still have no idea what it was for.
