The power of the press 360
Posted on
May 10, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Archive for the ‘comment’
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.
Popularity contest – results in 399
Posted on
May 05, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Children’s author, billionaire and Labour donor JK Rowling, last year:
You feeling that popularity yet, readers?
The safety of the town 293
Posted on
May 04, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
This morning we noted the weird double standards of the media when it comes to reporting politics-related violence (and/or the absence thereof) in Scotland. We weren’t expecting such a good illustration of it to come along within two hours.
The side of the thugs 129
Posted on
May 04, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Amazingly enough, the Scottish press today ISN’T wall-to-wall with stories about Baron McConnell of Glenscorrodale, UK peer and lawmaker, endorsing the “f***ing booting” of Conservative supporters at the weekend, in a striking contrast to when a young SNP candidate said similar but less offensive things some months ago.
(Lord McConnell’s friends were talking in the future tense about something they would do. Mhairi Black was talking in the past tense, about things which she HADN’T done.)
As far as we’ve seen, the small piece above in the Scottish Sun is the only coverage. (The Daily Record, as well as not reporting the McConnell comments at all, actually has another go at Mhairi Black instead.)
But we were having trouble recalling any “hate-filled violent mobs” (McConnell’s actual full quote) on the Yes/SNP side. And so was an alert reader who had a dig through the papers from the last couple of years.
Hedging their bets 98
Posted on
May 03, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
This is the Labour-supporting Sunday People today:
And this is its Labour-supporting sister paper the Sunday Mail:
But it’s not as simple as it sounds.
Something changed 126
Posted on
May 02, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Scottish Labour’s chief of staff in February:
The same man tonight:
Does the biggest party form the government or doesn’t it, John?
One Nation Labour 129
Posted on
May 02, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
So there’s this, which isn’t the biggest surprise.
Having already told the people of Scotland to get stuffed and forget about having any sort of voice in government if they wouldn’t vote for Labour, there’s no major shock in Miliband doing the same to those in Wales.
But alert readers may have noticed that there’s one more Celtic nation in the UK that hasn’t been mentioned yet. What’s the Labour position there?
Your friends and neighbours 104
Posted on
May 02, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We know that politicians are allowed to lie in election literature, but we’re struggling to see how this isn’t fraud, which is something different altogether.
Click the image to see both letters full-size.
More vile cybernats 111
Posted on
May 02, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Do you remember the Labour and media outrage a while back when SNP candidate Mhairi Black said she felt like “putting the nut” on some gloating Unionists at the indyref count, readers? Remember the pious scandal at such dreadful thuggery? (If you’d forgotten, don’t worry, because it’s in the Telegraph again today.)
Remember how the Daily Record and Scotsman have now been hammering away for a full week at another SNP candidate, Neil Hay, for tweeting a link to a satirical website and arguably being slightly rude about a small subset of pensioners, while glossing over a lengthy catalogue of abusive tweets calling the SNP “fascists” and “Nazis” (and more) from a prominent Labour activist and BBC pundit?
There’s your actual former First Minister and peer of the UK realm, Baron McConnell of Glenscorrodale, setting the example Labour would have everyone follow today by celebrating a threat to “f*****g boot” any Tories in Wishaw (we’re not told whether the young ladies in question were Labour activists he was with or just Labour voters).
But there’s more.
