Counting all the days 105
Posted on
December 04, 2020 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We got this email last night.
And, y’know, that’s really not good enough, folks.
Archive for the ‘analysis’
The plotters thicken 64
Posted on
December 03, 2020 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Alert readers will recall the deranged open letter released by a group of transactivists last Friday, in a nakedly transparent attempt to influence the SNP’s NEC elections that weekend which backfired on them horribly (and amusingly) when the party’s members instead kicked out three-quarters of the committee’s woke faction and replaced them with feminists, socialists and above all advocates of actually achieving independence.
But things just got rather more interesting.
The team player 258
Posted on
December 02, 2020 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
If you don’t have the time to read Alyn Smith’s astonishing response to the SNP NEC election results in today’s National, we’ve edited it down to 10 seconds for you.
If you’re in no rush, read on.
The Portillo Moments 177
Posted on
December 01, 2020 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The Snake In The Long Grass 154
Posted on
November 30, 2020 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We had, we think it’s only fair to say, extremely low expectations of Nicola Sturgeon’s keynote speech this afternoon to the SNP’s soporific, strangled 2020 non-conference. It seems that members felt the same, because 15 seconds before the speech began only 1,166 of them were logged in to watch it.
The speech she just delivered, though, limboed under those expectations in platform shoes and a stovepipe hat without even grazing the underside of the bar.
Titanic Blinky 203
Posted on
November 29, 2020 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
In a post last month we referenced a ZX Spectrum computer game from 1984 called “Worse Things Happen At Sea”. Today as we watched the First Minister on the Andrew Marr Show, we were put in mind of another nautical-disaster-themed one from a great deal nearer to the end of the Speccy’s life.
It was grim viewing in every sense.
Pete’s Perfect Plan 241
Posted on
November 24, 2020 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The Faction Factory 246
Posted on
November 23, 2020 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Sometimes, despite everything, you just have to laugh.
No matter how black and rueful a laugh it might be.
Hate in numbers 190
Posted on
November 20, 2020 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The Scottish Parliament will today almost certainly pass a dangerously misleading and inaccurate motion to mark “Transgender Day Of Remembrance”, and in doing so will join countless other institutions across the UK captured by trans ideology to the great detriment of women’s rights, freedom of speech and general sanity.
So we thought we’d mark it with a very short fact check.
The state is not her 224
Posted on
November 19, 2020 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
One of the dumber things we see regularly posted on social media is that Yes voices should stop criticising the First Minister because her leadership is the only reason Yes is now consistently ahead in the polls and we would have no chance of winning a new referendum with someone else in charge.
This is obviously nonsense, because Nicola Sturgeon was SNP leader and FM for five years in which support moved barely a single millimetre, until COVID-19 came along. Our current lead is due entirely to a tiny invisible virus and a giant Etonian buffoon.
But you know us, readers – we like to check.
Agents of fear 288
Posted on
November 08, 2020 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
No explanation is given for why “writer at large” Neil Mackay has suddenly conducted a “wide-ranging, exclusive interview” with “one of Britain’s most senior spy chiefs” for today’s Herald On Sunday.
As far as we’re aware absolutely nothing has happened in respect of the UK’s nuclear “deterrent” to make the subject topical. Maybe Mackay just coincidentally bumped into Sir David Omand down the pub or something.
The Sitter 212
Posted on
October 30, 2020 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
It’s important not to understate the magnitude of the chance we’re missing.
