The way ahead 376
Posted on
October 08, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We’re still on holiday until Tuesday, readers. But we wanted to ask you something.
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The corridors of power 377
Posted on
October 06, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We couldn’t help noticing this sad story from yesterday’s Sunday Times:
That’s Johann Lamont, readers – the woman who wants to lead Scotland, but had to be “rescued” when she tried to negotiate entry into a lift. God save us.
Taking the biscuits 803
Posted on
October 04, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
You have to laugh, or… 341
Posted on
September 30, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
There’s only one possible sane response to this story. It’s below:
Click the pic to sign. Let’s see who gets the most, shall we?
Yeah, that’ll work 328
Posted on
September 30, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Because nothing scares Etonian Tory Prime Ministers like a poster on a van.
Your time is over, Daily Record. Tick tock.
Demand and supply 401
Posted on
September 29, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Some rest for the wicked 402
Posted on
September 25, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Right then. I’m now back in Bath, which sadly is not yet technically in a foreign country. To be frank, readers, after the last three years and especially the last two weeks I’m mentally, emotionally and physically done in.
But on the 19th I said that it was “difficult to think of any useful purpose [Wings Over Scotland] can serve” in the aftermath of a No vote, and that’s no longer the case.
No regrets 334
Posted on
September 24, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Or some regrets. It’s so hard to tell.
The UK media, ladies and gentlemen.
Our man on the scene 900
Posted on
September 24, 2014 by
Douglas Daniel
There’s been a lot of talk on Twitter and Facebook of irregularities at the referendum counts, leading to accusations that the referendum was somehow fixed, culminating in a petition to have the procedures investigated, or even the referendum re-run. As with most conspiracy theories, this is largely down to people not understanding what they’re seeing, as the videos flying around the internet showing bits of the count have been removed from their context.
For example, there’s a video showing a counting table with a No sign on it with a pile of ballot papers, with the top paper showing a cross beside Yes. To the uninformed observer, this looks like Yes votes have been dumped on a table of No votes; but in reality, the pile of votes were still waiting to be split up into Yes and No at this point, and if the person making the video had bothered to check, they’d have found this out.
So here’s a quick guide to how the count worked, as observed by one of this website’s own official monitoring agents (specifically me).
We told you so #2 955
Posted on
September 23, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Even we’re surprised how fast these are coming true.
Stay tuned for more. They’re on the way.
The best of friends 681
Posted on
September 22, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We’ve known and documented for some time now that Scottish Labour’s attitude towards “foreigners” is, well, let’s be super-generous and say “ambiguous”. But this photo from nine days ago made even us take a sharp breath.
The woman on the left is the Labour MP for Aberdeen South, Dame Anne Begg. She received her DBE in 2011 “for services to disabled people and to equal opportunities”. But who’s her No-campaigning pal?
The voices of unity 229
Posted on
September 22, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
