On public record 550
Posted on
May 23, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Alistair Carmichael on Channel 4 News a few weeks ago:
Now at least we know why he was struggling to keep a straight face.
Archive for the ‘comment’
The naked liar 145
Posted on
May 23, 2015 by
Eric Joyce
I was driving along under a lovely London sky yesterday and heard Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon’s interview on BBC Radio 4’s PM (package starts at 33.26).
As it progressed, it became clear that Sturgeon was turning in one of the best political performances on a radio programme ever. I say that as a Labour supporter, albeit one who’s belatedly grasping just how good she and her party folk are.
(PM, BBC Radio 4, 22 May 2015)
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It’s for you, and then the pundits, to reflect on her words and style. But what I heard moved me across a line of argument in a way I can’t remember being moved by anyone on the radio or telly before.
In case you’ve been napping 341
Posted on
May 22, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
…or, like us, out buying Eurovision party snacks:
This is a non-trivial matter. The (at the time) Secretary of State for Scotland seems to have just admitted deliberately and knowingly undermining the democratically-elected First Minister. The report may have been sneakily published on the eve of a Bank Holiday weekend, but we suspect this one won’t have gone away by Tuesday.
The road of the dodo 225
Posted on
May 22, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
STV’s Stephen Daisley yesterday penned one of the more thoughtful analyses we’ve seen on the future of Labour, both UK and Scottish varieties, although it’s perhaps a bit heavy on “they should do things that are popular and will make people vote for them” and a bit light on what those things would actually be.
But there’s also this.
It’s a bit like watching a rabbit on a motorway explain that lights can’t hurt you.
We’ve lost track again 318
Posted on
May 19, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
So cutting Corporation Tax is back to being a good left-wing thing, yes?
The outsider 329
Posted on
May 17, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Note: we haven’t mocked this up.
But jings, readers, it’s hardly any dafter than most of the others.
Falling out with Auntie 406
Posted on
May 14, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Many pundits are of the opinion that the new Tory Max government will be actively hostile to the BBC, which the party has long believed is an expensive public-sector hotbed of right-on lefties. So when we did our latest poll, it seemed worth finding out how much the people of Scotland valued the state broadcaster.
There were, let’s say, some interesting quirks.
The lockout 511
Posted on
May 12, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
There was an interesting line in The National yesterday:
“The monthly Scottish Questions in Parliament looks set to be an odd affair.
In other words, business as usual.
The power of the press 360
Posted on
May 10, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Seeing it coming a mile off 125
Posted on
May 08, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The media might be shocked. But readers of Wings aren’t.
Because there’s simply no excuse for anyone acting surprised.
