Excess Baggage 108
Posted on
May 04, 2024 by
Chris Cairns
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If you want to know the facts 197
Posted on
May 02, 2024 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The Feral Ferret 117
Posted on
April 29, 2024 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
So there it is. In a massive, humiliating and abrupt reverse, the Scottish Greens have announced that they’ll support the Scottish Government – still led for the foreseeable future by Humza Yousaf – in this week’s confidence motion.
Shockingly enough, the debate about the Greens’ principles, intellectual consistency and integrity was an extremely brief one. Faced with the loss of their relevance and influence, they crumbled like month-old carrot cake and rushed their cards onto the table before the SNP had time to do any thinking.
Any hope Kate Forbes might have had of leading the SNP just evaporated, and so did any hope of grown-up government between now and 2026. The SNP will now spend the next two years as pathetic, grovelling puppets, doing whatever the Greens want as long as the paycheques and pension contributions keep rolling in.
It’s a tragic demise for a party that just a couple of years ago still crushed all before it in Scottish politics. But that’s showbiz, folks.
The Makings Of Men 147
Posted on
April 27, 2024 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We apologise for making you look at Ross Greer’s face on a weekend.
But what he said to the Holyrood Sources podcast yesterday is important.
The Labyrinth Of Stupidity 142
Posted on
April 26, 2024 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
It’s probably as good an illustration of the madness currently engulfing Scottish politics as anything that the most unusual suspect, Anas Sarwar, may have just – temporarily at least – saved Humza Yousaf’s job.
And although our head hurts already, we’ll try to explain why.
The Asking Of The Question 93
Posted on
April 25, 2024 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
At FMQs today, Douglas Ross announced that he was putting down a motion of no confidence in the Scottish Government in the wake of the collapse of the Bute House agreement. That creates an enormously interesting situation, because the arithmetic of Parliament is extremely finely balanced, and particularly in the light of Patrick Harvie’s subsequent contribution.
In short, what it means is that the future of the government hangs on Ash Regan.
The People We Don’t Want 94
Posted on
April 25, 2024 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We tweeted this last night as a teaser for our big exclusive. (Which is now hilariously being claimed by Paul Hutcheon of the Daily Record seven hours later.)
And it does now seem to be the case that the news is that the SNP are ending the Bute House Agreement and kicking out the Greens before the Greens do it first.
And what that tells us, for a starter, is that the SNP’s once-legendary skill in news management really is now well and truly on fire, as in “bin”.
Hobson’s Law 164
Posted on
April 22, 2024 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
While we all wait for the thing we all really want to happen this week, try to pretend that the disastrous and pitiful “indy march and rally” at the weekend never took place, and do our best to ignore the fact that thanks to the weakness of Nicola Sturgeon and Humza Yousaf our country’s government is infested with lunatic extremist child-abuse apologists, let’s see if we can’t take some time out from all the doom and gloom to offer something constructive.
Not you, Patrick. This is for grown-ups, you can sit it out on your wee high chair.
Where Have All The Flowers Gone? 226
Posted on
April 20, 2024 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
There are, at the most generous possible maximum estimate, maybe 1600 people here, including the wee knot of 100 or so Unionists circled at bottom left.
That is now the size of the self-styled “mainstream independence movement”.
The End Is The Beginning Is The End 271
Posted on
April 18, 2024 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The pause button has been released. The day is finally here.
And it’s one that EVERY supporter of independence should rejoice in.
