Local colours 135
Posted on
February 15, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Just for fun.
(The combined figure for all football fans, incidentally, is Yes 52% No 48%.)
Archive for the ‘culture’
The next pages of the script 203
Posted on
January 20, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
It’s morning in America, readers.
Judge Dredd: Origins was published in 2007, although in fact the basic story of how Bad Bob Booth became the last President of the USA and what he did next was established right back at the 1970s beginnings of Dredd’s parent comic 2000AD.
We actually have a theory that it’s all the Lib Dems’ fault.
Hypocrisy, actually 204
Posted on
January 04, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We weren’t going to dignify the utterly absurd media stushie over a tweet by Glasgow MSP John Mason yesterday with any coverage because it was too cretinous to even bear thinking about, but this from today’s Daily Record was just too good.
Towards a better, kinder world 96
Posted on
December 29, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
A few people objected to this post when we first ran it a year ago, then came to regret their decision. So for their sake we’re putting it up again, in a new and updated form, in the interests of civilised and productive discourse about Scottish politics.
It’s the most constructive contribution we can think of to make Twitter a less toxic place over the next 12 months. It’s our block list.
At the top of the dial 299
Posted on
December 09, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We’ll be honest, there are some bits of this that make us wince, and unfortunately most of them come in the first two minutes where they’ll do the most damage in terms of getting a persuadeable voter to watch the rest of it. But it’s an important piece of work, containing stuff even we didn’t know about, and it should be seen.
If you want to show it to people who aren’t already Yes, though, we’d suggest giving them a link that starts 123 seconds in.
The hungry gamekeepers 380
Posted on
October 31, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Old media and new media spoke with one voice in Scotland today:
But for once it was the dead-tree press that held the moral high ground.
Ready to rumble 258
Posted on
September 09, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The tone of coverage deployed by the Daily Express (Scottish and English editions alike) with regard to the First Minister of Scotland in recent weeks has been both bizarre and disturbing. Yesterday the paper ran this “story”:
It’s a load of gibberish, obviously. But if the FM was preparing herself for a punch-up, you could hardly blame her given what’s apparently been going on.
Shortbread-tin nationalism 251
Posted on
September 03, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
When you choose to declare to the world that you’re not actually a country but just a small region of someone else’s, this sort of thing will happen.
Swinging free 290
Posted on
August 17, 2016 by
Charlie Hebdo
Alert readers may have noticed reports in the press that the famous French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo this month carried a four-page feature on the state of politics in Scotland, having sent two of its senior staff – accompanied by their French police bodyguard – over to conduct a series of interviews.
We thought you might like to see it, so we commissioned a translated version.
The cybernat in the trees 109
Posted on
August 03, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
A parable of internet abuse. Acknowledgements to Alan Moore and Frankie Boyle.
Dedicated to David Torrance, Susan Calman, Johanna Baxter and Angela Eagle.
About time, frankly 324
Posted on
July 31, 2016 by
Ray McRobbie
In December 2013, the editor of this site – who knew nothing of the secret this article is about to reveal – tweeted “When we write the chronicles of independence, I hope there’ll be a whole chapter on @A_DarlingMP”.
Well, this is as close as we’re going to get.
