The Taking Of Holyrood 129 310
Posted on
May 09, 2021 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Archive for the ‘analysis’
The Hardest Vote 309
Posted on
May 06, 2021 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We’d actually planned to leave Chris Cairns’ fabulous cartoon at the top of the front page all day today, but this post is important so we’re putting it in here again (no, Chris, you don’t get paid twice) so we can say this.
Because no matter how much you hate the Unionist parties or certain of their individual MSPs, if you want Alba MSPs elected today there are several seats where you really, really can’t afford to vote SNP on the constituency ballot.
Living In Oceania 257
Posted on
May 05, 2021 by
Dr Emmanuel Goldstein
THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF OLIGARCHICAL COLLECTIVISM
Chapter I
Ignorance Is Strength
Throughout recorded time, and probably since the end of the Neolithic Age, there have been three kinds of people in the world, the High, the Middle, and the Low. They have been subdivided in many ways, they have borne countless different names, and their relative numbers, as well as their attitude towards one another, have varied from age to age: but the essential structure of society has never altered.
Even after enormous upheavals and seemingly irrevocable changes, the same pattern has always reasserted itself, just as a gyroscope will always return to equilibrium, however far it is pushed one way or the other.
The aims of these three groups are entirely irreconcilable.
What Nicola Says 133
Posted on
May 05, 2021 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
This is not a mistake 161
Posted on
May 03, 2021 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The Tories might be evil, but they’re not idiots.
They do think YOU’RE a bit dim, though.
How it started and how it’s going 279
Posted on
May 01, 2021 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Our always-alert readers will probably have noticed that Nicola Sturgeon’s constant catchphrase this week has been how Yes supporters still need to “build the case for independence”, rather than actually do anything to achieve it.
But the thing is, she’s the leader of the SNP. Building the case for independence is literally her job, and she’s now been doing it for six and a half years. So how much progress have we made?
We have a problem 125
Posted on
April 30, 2021 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
It’s pretty stark when you see it laid out like this.
In just four months, the SNP – because if you aggressively assert sole ownership of a political campaign, there’s nobody else you can blame when it goes south – have turned a 10-point lead for independence into a seven-point lead for the Union with the same polling company.
And while that’s pretty brutal in itself, it’s not even the real fly in the ointment.
Patrick Harvie is a racist 112
Posted on
April 29, 2021 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
A strong statement? Here’s the evidence.
He hates women too, but we already knew that.
The single basket 159
Posted on
April 29, 2021 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Remember when we’d had 20-odd Yes-majority polls in a row, and all the courtiers of Queen Nicola Of Trans were telling us that it was solely down to her personal strategic genius and cunning masterplan of gently persuading soft No voters by, um, not actually taking any steps to achieve independence in case it scared them?
We wonder whose fault this is, then.
Men’s Needs 205
Posted on
April 23, 2021 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Just over a hundred years ago, the rights of women in the UK were still entirely decided by men. Women didn’t have the vote (a small minority would be given it in 1918, but most would have another decade to wait), there were no women in Parliament, and women basically had no say in anything that happened.
Record scratch and jump-cut to the present day.
That’s Kirsty Blackman, an SNP MP elected in 2015 who wouldn’t even have been allowed to stand for election a hundred years earlier, and who seems determined to take women’s rights back to that century.
Queen Of The Mushroom Kingdom 127
Posted on
April 23, 2021 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
It really is deeply dispiriting the see the level of utter burning contempt in which Nicola Sturgeon holds the independence movement, if this is the sort of ludicrously insulting garbage she thinks it’ll swallow.
Who told us it’s garbage? Nicola Sturgeon did.
So tired of being lied to 237
Posted on
April 20, 2021 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The First Minister released a short film this week.
While it has the character of a hostage video, with terrorists just off-camera pointing a gun at the unfortunate victim and forcing them to read out a pre-prepared text, sadly we doubt that was the case. We think this is really what she believes and intends.
And that’s all kinds of disturbing.
