The sense of welcome 259
Posted on
March 25, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
No.10: Jackie Kemp, journalist.
Archive for the ‘comment’
The Liar 153
Posted on
March 25, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Normally the amateur blogger, unqualified would-be economist and unsuccessful dog-food salesman that BBC Scotland and the Daily Record employ on a regular basis to openly troll Yes voters restricts himself, when attacking this site, to crude abuse or smear and innuendo like the below, tweeted on Holocaust Memorial Day last year:
Last night, implausibly, he sank lower.
If it hits you in the eye 301
Posted on
March 24, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
There’s a new hot buzz-phrase in the Yoonstream: “GERS deniers”.
It’s actually been around for quite a few months – coincidentally since this site started exposing the true nature of the figures – but has become a constant mantra recently, in particular since the intervention of an actual proper expert who doesn’t sell cat litter for a living, Professor Richard Murphy.
Ever since he set tongues and tails wagging by writing a series of hard-hitting articles for his widely-renowned Tax Research UK blog last week, rubbishing the quality of the data, Unionists have been in an increasingly shrill flap about it.
And it’s not hard to see why.
Unreliable sources 235
Posted on
March 21, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
It seems counter-intuitive – given Rupert Murdoch’s often-overstated (despite endless and fevered speculation, the Scottish Sun didn’t back a Yes vote) but still seemingly real support for Scottish independence – that Sky News should be seen as the most hostile of the nation’s broadcasters to the Yes movement.
Yet such it is.
Stitched up like kippers 261
Posted on
March 20, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Panelbase have released data tables for their recent Sunday Times poll. And wow.
That’s quite something.
To keep links with the world 84
Posted on
March 19, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
No 9: Mark, until recently from London.
How soon isn’t now? 524
Posted on
March 16, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
A unique opportunity to escape 76
Posted on
March 15, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
No 8: Elizabeth, from Bonnybridge.
Some things are simple 428
Posted on
March 14, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Judging by the first 24 hours, we’re in for a two-year festival of utter horror from the UK and Scottish media. Yesterday saw a never-ending parade of metrosplaining idiots dragged willingly in front of cameras and microphones to pontificate their clueless and mind-numbingly ignorant drivel about Scotland.
It wasn’t possible to keep track of it all, because it was frequently happening on five channels at once, and it was harder still to watch it for any extended period of time without hurling a brick through the screen in frustration at the offensive stupidity of it.
Feeding into that was a stream of Scottish politicians who actually did know better, but who are too catastrophically dim to adapt to changing circumstances and had no strategy other than to endlessly repeat the same cretinous soundbites over and over.
(Adam Tomkins in particular was ubiquitous, spending what felt like several hours on various airwaves reciting the same brainless 10-second schtick forever.)
The constitutional politics of the UK and Scotland are in flux, and many aspects of the situation are complicated. But quite a lot of them aren’t, and if we’re all going to make it through the next two years without stabbing each other in the throat, it’d be a lot better if everyone accepted the things that are definite, empirical, indisputable facts.
Great news, Mrs Hudson 325
Posted on
March 13, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We’re going to need to print more books.
