In case you missed it 240
Posted on
February 23, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Archive for the ‘culture’
We really do adore him 304
Posted on
January 02, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
If twice is a coincidence and three times is a trend, then these five recent pictures of “Saint” Jim Murphy – the martyr who endured an egging for all our sins – from the print media surely tell us something interesting.
Final destination 64
Posted on
December 13, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
In an alternative universe, Keir Hardie reacts to news of the election of Jim Murphy.
The Conservative And Labour Party 258
Posted on
December 09, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
This is Tory activist Sarah Robb. She’s not a very nice person. (We don’t feel too bad about saying that, as she’s no fan of ours either.)
But, y’know, Tory activist, not a nice person – no news there, right?
Souls in the system 109
Posted on
December 03, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We’ve been watching in some bafflement the continuation of this bizarre non-story from yesterday. (For which, incidentally, the P&J has published a correction today.)
As one in five Scottish children live in poverty and temperatures fall at the beginning of winter with many families facing the choice between heating their homes or buying food, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie apparently arrived at the conclusion that the most important thing he could be doing with his taxpayer-funded time was occupying the Scottish Parliament with a demand to know (for no immediately apparent reason) how often civil servants had accessed Wings Over Scotland in the six months leading up to the referendum.
Let’s play Jocko Bingo! 161
Posted on
November 30, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
This really happened today:
Bagpipes! Haggis! Tartan! Whisky! Pretty sure we just got trolled, folks.
The right profiles 89
Posted on
November 17, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
In the absence of much news, this morning we’ve been having fun with this.
The news where everyone is 118
Posted on
November 10, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
One week after the independence referendum we posted about a fundraiser by the producers of Dateline Scotland. It was an unusual fundraiser, in that it didn’t promise to actually produce anything – the team simply wanted money to sustain them while they worked towards something much bigger. The fundraiser was a massive success, reaching more than three times its target in the blink of an eye.
And today the something bigger started to take shape.
Enough is enough 399
Posted on
September 20, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
If we hadn’t already been sure, this would have sealed it.
Because we all know what really happened in George Square last night.
In at the deep end 331
Posted on
September 15, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Well, at least now I know how a bullet feels when it gets fired from a gun.
I got home on Saturday evening, and started with a wander around the former social-housing estate where my parents live, now bisected by walls and fences and hedges where people bought their houses under Right To Buy and privatised wee patches of once communal ground. The policy clearly didn’t bring the Tories the gratitude they’d hoped for. Somewhat to my surprise I counted 21 Yes houses to 3 No.
The next day I went to Glasgow.
No Scot left behind 83
Posted on
September 11, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We’re the fire in the sky 188
Posted on
September 11, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
I had a night off this evening, readers. Poker and banter and laughs (and a Chinese takeaway) with some chums, a quick stop-off to chat a bit of strategy with the Wings Fulfilment Department and then home. I was just a few yards away when a song came on the stereo and I had to change my mind. I stomped on the accelerator, turned the volume up so loud it was distorting my sense of smell and gunned it out to the hills on the edge of town at full tilt just to feel the cool night breeze and release the pressure.
This one’s for all of us.
