The art of selection 172
Posted on
February 05, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Here’s the Herald today on YouGov’s latest independence polling:
All absolutely true. But is it the whole truth?
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Our Uncle Billy 144
Posted on
February 05, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Yesterday, a wealthy American man who as far as we know won’t have a vote in the referendum expressed a personal opinion about independence which made the front page of half of Scotland and Britain’s newspapers, was trumpeted all over the TV and radio, and got “Better Together” very excited.
This morning some idiot based in Luxembourg honked about it on BBC Breakfast news, throwing in his own clueless and ill-informed (and of course, unchallenged) view. We’re having some difficulty working out why we’re supposed to care about either man’s position, or why they were given lots of free airtime to espouse them.
Tonight we’re joining parties like it’s #1999 96
Posted on
February 04, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
On the eve of Wings Over Scotland’s 2000th post, we thought we’d celebrate.
Because today we learned something strange.
The ultimate weapon 204
Posted on
February 04, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
It seems that today marked the official start of the much-vaunted “lovebombing” campaign aimed at persuading Scots to stay in the UK by showing them how much they’re loved by the people of England, Wales and Northern Ireland. The opening salvo did some unfortunate and costly collateral damage, but luckily the Union had a white knight following close behind to smooth over any injured feelings.
Would you like to meet him, readers?
A mixed day for Johann Lamont 178
Posted on
February 04, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
There’s both good and bad news for the embattled Scottish Labour “leader” in today’s newspapers. But before we get to that, we’d like you to watch this.
The gent posing the rather lengthy question is Sean Clerkin, the man Iain Gray hid from in Subway. We must admit we’re not quite sure why he thinks Johann Lamont has anything to do with Atos sponsoring the Commonwealth Games – something which would presumably be a matter for the Scottish Government and/or Glasgow City Council, neither of which she controls – but the Labour MSP’s reaction is remarkable.
A strange kind of positivity 171
Posted on
February 03, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We were a little perplexed this morning by the Daily Record’s banner headline.
And not just because of the unusually generous use by the Labour-supporting paper of the term “SNP Government” (rather than “Scottish Goverment”) on a good-news story.
In Sealand today 84
Posted on
February 03, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Unleashing a firestorm 394
Posted on
February 03, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
It’s not as if the Financial Times doesn’t have history with dropping great big payloads of high explosive into the middle of the independence debate late on a Sunday night. But a piece coming up in Monday’s edition (and online tonight) is going to choke a few breakfasts in London tomorrow morning.
The crushing of a people 201
Posted on
February 02, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The following paragraph closes an article in today’s Observer.
We’re almost lost for words. But not quite.
The lifelong sigh 90
Posted on
February 02, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Sorry we haven’t posted much today, folks, but with a pulsating League Cup semi-final and then Scotland’s first game in the Six Nations (about which events we shall speak no more) it’s been a big day for sport. You know, this stuff:
We hate to be so petty and chippy, but after 40-odd years it wears you down. We’re pretty sure it’s a mistake they’ll stop making if we’re actually a proper country.
The tumbleweed express 136
Posted on
January 31, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We were expecting the turnout for the No campaign’s Great Train Mobbery to be a lot better for the afternoon session, on account of the fact that nobody would have to get up at 6am to go and leaflet a dark, freezing-cold railway station.
The opposite turned out to be true.
Type mismatch 160
Posted on
January 31, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
While we struggle through a tax return and our intrepid spotters document the second half of Better Together’s Big Train-Station Day Out, we figured you might like to read the Scottish Daily Mail’s story on the operation.
It’s a strange piece, opening with a dramatic “evil cybernat spies under the bed” headline and an opening paragraph about “sinister twists” and how we’re a “notorious abusive blog”, but then the remainder of the text twice repeats the point that we asked spotters not to harass anyone and that we’re merely challenging BT’s untruths.
It’s like their heart just wasn’t in the smear anymore.
