The winners and the losers 219
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April 16, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
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Building on sand 144
Posted on
April 16, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Last night’s juxtaposition of somewhat contradictory front covers on the Herald and Scottish Daily Mail was modestly amusing, but nothing new. We pointed out weeks ago that papers on both the left and the right were – often on the same days – painting the SNP as hand-in-glove allies of either Labour or the Tories according to whatever suited their own agendas, and nothing’s changed in that respect.
But it’s interesting to take a look behind the headlines of the respective stories and see the degree to which the truth can be bent, exaggerated or in some cases simply made up from thin air.
The Untouchables 109
Posted on
April 16, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
How long do you think the papers can keep pretending that all the other papers don’t exist, or that we don’t see any of them, folks?
The stench of desperation 162
Posted on
April 15, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
…hangs heavy about Scottish Labour. In an extraordinary piece on the STV website, the party today appeared to downgrade its bold assertion of just a few months ago that it could hold all 41 seats it won in Scotland in 2010, and perhaps win even more, to simply getting more than the SNP.
But the most remarkable thing happened at the end.
That, readers, is quite the admission. That’s a party which has utterly dominated UK politics in Scotland for six decades openly acknowledging that its entire campaign in the last three weeks will be based on railing against a complete fantasy.
That’ll be yer Vow, then 117
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April 15, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The Daily Record gets up high on its outrage horse this morning with a front-page story titled “Double-crossed on devo”, echoing Jim Murphy’s claim of yesterday that the Tories’ manifesto pledge on “English votes for English laws” is a “betrayal” of the “Vow” signed by the three UK party leaders before the independence referendum.
Unsurprisingly, the Record gives rather less prominence to the news that the Vow isn’t worth the fake parchment it wasn’t written on than it did to repeatedly hyping it up and then proclaiming that it had already been delivered.
But there’s a twist.
The cowards of the county 288
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April 13, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We try to avoid openly editorialising on this site, readers. While unashamedly partisan in our leanings, as a rule we prefer to present the facts and let people come to their own conclusions from the evidence.
But we’re not sure we’ve ever seen anything more craven and pathetic than this.
A matter of scale 252
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April 12, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
A super-alert reader pointed out something about today’s Sunday Politics that we hadn’t noticed. Before the galaxy-class trainwreck that was the Scottish leaders’ debate, the networked section of the show had a piece on Scottish polling, and our eagle-eyed viewer spotted that the chart of projected seats wasn’t in proportion.
So we measured, and this is what it should have looked like.
Work for idle hands 161
Posted on
April 12, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
There’s very little actual political news today, so the papers have largely been forced to either basically not have any at all (the Sunday Post and Scottish Sun On Sunday) or make up totally mad stuff for laughs to fill the space.
We’ve picked out some highlights for you below.
The politics of hope 263
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April 11, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Ladies and gentlemen, the Scottish Liberal Democrat manifesto 2015:
I voted for this pathetic shower of useless snivellers for 23 years, folks. I’ve learned my lesson. Once again, I can only hang my head and beg forgiveness.
The wheels keep turning 146
Posted on
April 11, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
That slacker Chris Cairns is on holiday again, readers. But don’t worry, we’ve still got some chucklesome weekend funnies for you.
New poll figures follow TV debates 134
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April 10, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
After this week’s STV and BBC debates, in which the Scottish Labour branch-office manager’s combative performances were favourably received by the Scottish media, Wings exclusively interviews armed-forces enthusiast Jim Murphy for a response to the latest numbers from YouGov, pausing first for the delivery of some refreshments.
Whoever you want them to be 113
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April 09, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The deeply ideologically-principled Liberal Democrats, readers:
Can anyone help us collect the full set?
