A Dumber Nation 85
Posted on
February 09, 2026 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
In politics, readers, evil and stupidity aren’t the same thing.
But nor are they exclusive.
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Echoes of history 68
Posted on
February 08, 2026 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The Sunday National’s front page today elicited a sigh of “So what?” from most.
We’ve already GOT a “pro-indy” majority at Holyrood and have done for the last 10 years, for all it’s been worth. But to be fair there was a paragraph in the article that at least raised a quizzical eyebrow.
A Stitch In Timing 161
Posted on
February 05, 2026 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Readers will probably be aware that literally as you read this, the Scottish Government is in court trying to defend its policy of letting male murderers be housed in women’s prisons by arguing that the Equality Act 2010 (as ruled on by the Supreme Court in the For Women Scotland case) is incompatible with the Human Rights Act 1998, implementing the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (commonly referred to as the ECHR).
But this article isn’t about that case.
The Marshalling Plan 229
Posted on
February 02, 2026 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Another month has passed, so we suppose it must be time for the third of our polling-analysis pieces for the Scottish Parliament election in May.
(Last time round we assessed the grotesque rank idiocy of voting SNP on the list if you want a pro-indy majority, and the time before that we considered the possible impact of Jeremy Corbyn’s Your Party on seat numbers, which now looks rather less potentially semi-interesting than it did last summer.)
So what can we look at this time?
Well, what if Unionists were slightly less stupid and tribal than SNP voters?
Shield Of The Phantom 338
Posted on
January 26, 2026 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Well, we gave it a go.
It seems that it’s fine to farm important judgments out to mysterious shadowy figures who just make important chunks of them up out of thin air, and then issue them in your own name. Back in your boxes, plebs.
Yelling at the tide 310
Posted on
January 21, 2026 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The Secondhand Amendment 137
Posted on
January 19, 2026 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We’re really not sure this makes things any better with regard to the incredible tale that’s unfolded around the judgment in Sandie Peggie vs NHS Fife.
In fact, on any interpretation we can think of, quite the reverse.
Learning Insanity 154
Posted on
January 14, 2026 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
This clip was broadcast on ITV News Wales this week.
It’s a staggeringly obvious mess for a whole raft of reasons – a number of completely spurious, illogical and unsupported claims are accepted as facts without any sort of challenge or balancing voice (which has been standard practice on ITV News for a while now across almost any contentious political topic) – but it led us to somewhere magnitudes of crazier still.
Governing For Beginners 108
Posted on
January 12, 2026 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
My first ever real experience of politics was playing Dictator.
Originally written by Don Priestley for the Sinclair ZX81 in 1982, it was a simple text-based game which subsequently came to other formats including the Commodore 64, BBC Micro, Elan Enterprise and the ZX Spectrum, which is where I encountered it.
Grandpa John’s Nightmare 257
Posted on
January 07, 2026 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
It’s almost – almost – worth voting SNP in May because of this:
Because it would be at least momentarily absolutely hilarious watching Swinney try to explain why his “100% guaranteed” second indyref didn’t happen if the SNP actually did get a majority on 30% of the vote (which is narrowly feasible on current polling).
Failure To Learn 101
Posted on
January 05, 2026 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Scotland take on Haiti on Sunday 14 June (in the wee small hours of the morning), so this is nice, isn’t it?
At least, it would be if incompetent idiots weren’t in charge.
List Voting For Cretins 122
Posted on
January 02, 2026 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
This week The National published a poll it commissioned from Find Out Now for this May’s Scottish Parliament election, alongside a seat projection from Sir John Curtice. Here are the list-vote figures from the poll.
The seat projection calculated that the election would result in 59 SNP MSPs (six short of the number John Swinney says is the minimum needed to force a second indyref), 25 for Reform, 13 for the Greens, 12 each for Labour and the Tories and eight for the Lib Dems.
It didn’t specify how many of the seats were constituency ones and how many were list ones, so we dropped Sir John a line and asked him.
