How soon isn’t now? 524
Posted on
March 16, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Archive for the ‘europe’
That’s that one sorted, then 192
Posted on
March 10, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We joke, of course. The Spanish government has made this position abundantly plain several times over a number of years, and it still doesn’t stop idiot Yoons (and media pundits who should know better) from spouting it.
But this time, in the flesh, it’s really quite hard to spin a way out of.
A trivial omission 265
Posted on
February 27, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Our attention was drawn today to hardcore shrieky Loyalist nutter collective Scotland In Union releasing “new research” on an independent Scotland’s finances, which in fact came out last year but which for unknown reasons they’re touting again now.
Commissioned by the loongroup from a London-based thinktank that we’d never heard of by the name of “Europe Economics”, it predictably produces a doom-and-gloom conclusion that independence would have cost over £10bn in the first year.
There are so many gaping chasms in the logic we could hardly stop laughing for long enough to type, but one in particular was worth wiping the tears from our eyes for.
The centrifuge 487
Posted on
February 10, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Sometimes the word “spin” just isn’t enough to get the reality across.
Ladies and gentlemen, we give you: the Scottish media.
In the dead of the night 335
Posted on
February 01, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
This is Conservative MP Dominic Raab, a member of the Brexit Select Committee, speaking on the BBC News Channel’s “Hard Talk” programme at 00.45 this morning. Perhaps imagining that nobody would be watching at such an ungodly hour, it seems he felt able to be unusually candid.
We left the last bit on in order to demonstrate that he was still talking about Scotland as well as Ireland. (He went on to recite the usual boilerplate about all leaving together as the UK etc etc, you can watch the whole show for yourself on iPlayer.)
But let’s just get that key early exchange down in writing for the record.
The funeral pyre 172
Posted on
January 31, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Readers familiar with our standing advice to newspaper customers that the headline is nearly always a lie might like to consider today’s Press & Journal.
The word “pyre” comes from the Greek word “pyra”, meaning “fire”. Surprisingly, it’s NOT the same root as “Pyrrhic”, as in “Pyrrhic victory”, meaning one that’s achieved by metaphorically burning your own city down. (Which in fact is named after the Greek general Pyrrhus of Epirus.)
But why the etymology lesson?
Not you, Scotland 149
Posted on
January 31, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Time catches up with us all 342
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January 29, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Call the experts 850
Posted on
January 26, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Because when you really want people with their finger on the pulse of Scottish politics to analyse the implications of the Supreme Court decision on Brexit, where else would you go but to Channel 5’s The Wright Stuff, to hear from um, former rugby league star and haircut pioneer Martin Offiah?
The simpler version 292
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January 26, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Way back in October last year we analysed what now seems to have become the key plank of Unionist argument against independence in the wake of Brexit – the idea that because Scotland does more trade with the rest of the UK than it does with the EU, independence would be economic suicide because Scotland would be sacrificing “the UK single market” (a thing that doesn’t actually exist ) for a much smaller one.
It’s a completely idiotic position, but to be honest we didn’t do a very good job of boiling the counter-argument down to something snappy and quoteable, so let’s have another go and see if we can manage something a little better.
While the truth gets its boots on 367
Posted on
January 25, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Here’s Alex Salmond on last night’s Newsnight:
Let’s just quickly fact-check that claim.
