An excellent question 45
Posted on
December 05, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Posed by Kezia Dugdale in the Holyrood chamber today:
Archive for the ‘comment’
Articles without faith 397
Posted on
December 01, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
At a time of unprecedented political chaos and uncertainty, just about the only thing you can still count on is that for any given situation, senior Labour figures will issue proclamations both firmly in favour of it and stoutly opposed to it, usually the same day.
So the stories below, which are respectively from today’s Scotsman and today’s Times, won’t come as much of a shock to anyone.
But against the odds, we think we’ve made some sense of it.
Pretending to be stupid 797
Posted on
November 25, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
All political discourse is plagued with genuine imbeciles, of course. But what’s far more depressing is when educated and normally perceptive people merely act like imbeciles for money, such as the case of Alex Massie in the Sunday Times today.
Because for the last two years, commentators who ought to know better have insisted in presenting Scotland’s choice as between Brexit or Brexit plus independence, and solemnly concluding that the uncertainties and risks of the latter being piled on top of those of the former prove that independence is no solution.
And we don’t care to have our intelligence insulted in that way.
Helping out Murdo 250
Posted on
November 23, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
A different kind of beat 105
Posted on
November 22, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
So this was in the Times football section today:
And you find yourself thinking, “Well gee, why might THAT be, Alex?”
The staunch defenders 281
Posted on
November 19, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
If we were to write an article every time Murdo Fraser said something moronic, we’d have to rename this site Wings Over Murdo Fraser, and drink an awful lot of Red Bull to be able to cover it all.
Stuff like this, for example, is almost too easy.
43% (actually 45.3% excluding Don’t Knows) is considerably more than Murdo Fraser has ever achieved in an election, either himself or as part of a party. His average over the seven elections he’s contested and lost since 1999 is just 30.1%, and until a blip in 2016 it had been falling lower and lower each time, as people have watched how he performed as an MSP and got less and less keen on the idea.
That’s still actually slightly more than the 28.6% his party secured in Scotland at the last election, though, in what was nevertheless generally regarded as an unusually impressive performance. Two years earlier they gathered just 14.9% of the votes cast.
Yet neither Fraser nor the Tories disappear for a generation every time Scotland tells them to go and get stuffed. Fraser keeps trousering an MSP’s fat salary despite two decades of unbroken and unequivocal personal rejection from the electorate, even as he demands that the independence movement gives up after losing ONE vote.
But in his defence, his leader’s not setting him much of an example.
Waiting for the penny to drop 96
Posted on
November 19, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
This is the best one of these we’ve ever seen.
Nobody tell him, now. Imagine the moment when he spots it for himself.
The armchair terrorists 456
Posted on
November 17, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
This is the editorial in today’s Scottish edition of The Times:
It seems to be an increasingly popular viewpoint in the country’s media.
