We couldn’t help noticing this sad story from yesterday’s Sunday Times:

That’s Johann Lamont, readers – the woman who wants to lead Scotland, but had to be “rescued” when she tried to negotiate entry into a lift. God save us.
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Not a spoof. Spotted at the Lib Dem conference:

The second paragraph says more than we could.
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David Cameron’s speech to the Conservative conference today:
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Wings stats for September, for those keeping score.
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There’s only one possible sane response to this story. It’s below:

Click the pic to sign. Let’s see who gets the most, shall we?
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Because nothing scares Etonian Tory Prime Ministers like a poster on a van.

Your time is over, Daily Record. Tick tock.
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Daily Record, Saturday 27 September:

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Don’t panic, readers – I’m not about to make you look at all my holiday snaps. But after Thursday’s “Gone fishin'” post, I was buying milk in the local Co-op and got busted by a reader demanding to know why I wasn’t at the seaside, so this is for him.

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Can be discussed below. (We don’t know what they are, we’re on holiday.)
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More information here. Wings Over Scotland endorses (and indeed, may well become actively involved with) this event or product.
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Right then. I’m now back in Bath, which sadly is not yet technically in a foreign country. To be frank, readers, after the last three years and especially the last two weeks I’m mentally, emotionally and physically done in.
But on the 19th I said that it was “difficult to think of any useful purpose [Wings Over Scotland] can serve” in the aftermath of a No vote, and that’s no longer the case.
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Or some regrets. It’s so hard to tell.

The UK media, ladies and gentlemen.
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