The waste monster 201
Posted on
March 03, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
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The sharpest bulb in the packet 213
Posted on
March 01, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Scottish Labour’s mustard-keen Kezia “Deputy” Dugdale bravely tried a tweet all on her own on Friday without running it past Labour central office in London first.
It didn’t go too well.
Underhand service 171
Posted on
March 01, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The categorical support of Andy Murray for Scottish independence, though only finally unambiguously revealed in today’s Sunday Times (the tennis star’s day-of-poll tweet backing Yes could by a strict semantic interpretation have been said to be somewhat equivocal), isn’t much of a surprise.
So it’s perhaps worth reminding ourselves what the media told us.
Toys found some distance from pram 253
Posted on
February 28, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Perhaps we’re just being over-sensitive, readers, but we think the Daily Record might be a little bit upset with us.
That’s the editor of the semi-popular Scottish Labour fanzine, Murray Foote, pictured above this afternoon apparently issuing his own very special honours list, but it’s not the crankiest thing the Record’s published in the last 24 hours.
Keep talking until you’re right 71
Posted on
February 28, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Alert readers may recall that five weeks ago we pointed out a whole bunch of Scottish media outlets reporting as fact that Jim Murphy would definitely stand for the East Renfrewshire seat at May’s general election – despite Murphy having actually made no such announcement, just repeating his weeks-old fudge that he was currently the selected candidate.
Guess what’s happened today, folks?
All the high times 104
Posted on
February 27, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We’ve posted this video before, but right now it’s all we’ve got to say.
The relative size of the truth 112
Posted on
February 26, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Sometimes a picture can say a lot more than a thousand words. Below, to the left of the vertical red line on our graphic, you can see the prominence that the Daily Record gave to their lies about “The Vow” and the Smith Commission report, which were found to be false by the Independent Press Standards Organisation.
On the right of the line, at the same scale, is the prominence they gave to the truth.
The Nurse Who Wasn’t An Actress 331
Posted on
February 26, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The plot stupids 110
Posted on
February 26, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The comical furore about The Nurse Who Definitely Isn’t An Actress shows no signs of making sense any time soon.
24 hours and several demented pages of hysterical tabloid shrieking later, we’re still not sure whether a No activist and Labour supporter from Clackmannanshire is called Suzanne Duncan (as “Better Together” called her until at least June last year) or “Suzanne Hunter” (as the Daily Record calls her), though a bit of Facebook detective work suggests the latter.
We do at least seem to have cleared up her employment history, as the Daily Record has now very quietly and subtly changed its article of last night, which claimed she’d worked for eight years at a hospital that’s only been open for five.
But a whole bundle of other questions remain unanswered.
The Record’s Revenge 209
Posted on
February 25, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
You can never accuse the Scottish media of being knowingly underhysterical.
Tonight the Daily Record snuck out its semi-apology for telling the Scottish people the biggest lie we’ve seen on the front page of a newspaper since its parent the Mirror published fake pictures of soldiers urinating on Iraqi prisoners.
You can tell they’re not awfully pleased we forced them to make that “correction” by reporting the lie to the Independent Press Standards Organisation, because they even reference it in the editorial above.
Speaking of which – well, heck, where do we even start?
Thrown to the wolves 210
Posted on
February 25, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Before we start, let’s make this plain: we will NOT be submitting any sort of complaint to any healthcare body regarding what we’re about to discuss, and we ask readers not to either. When push comes to shove, we don’t want nurses losing their jobs.
We just wish Scottish Labour felt the same way.
