Wait, what did we miss? 108
Posted on
November 13, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Archive for the ‘history’
For the record 221
Posted on
November 11, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Because, astonishing as it might seem in the circumstances, Ruth Davidson actually genuinely tried to get away with this at First Minister’s Questions yesterday:
They really do think we won’t remember, readers.
Please be wrong 627
Posted on
November 09, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
It’s 4.36am. I’m going to go to bed in a minute. I’m hoping that I get up in a few hours and laugh at this, delighted at my own unfounded pessimism.
The Simple Ruth 391
Posted on
October 20, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
On the contentious and topical subject of what constitutes a mandate for a second independence referendum, we’re grateful to the super-alert reader who unearthed this clip from BBC Scotland’s election night coverage of 2011, in which Ruth Davidson gives a candid and blunt explanation of the criteria required:
We’re just going to write that one down for the record.
A strange interpretation 105
Posted on
October 20, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Bowled out by the softballs 497
Posted on
October 16, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Here’s David Mundell on Sunday Politics earlier today:
It’s a pretty uncomfortable time. But it could have been a lot worse.
Another lucky escape 115
Posted on
October 13, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Alert readers may recall that almost three years ago, the No campaign issued a series of dire warnings that independence could cause supermarket prices to rise:
Thankfully, by staying in the UK and therefore leaving the EU, Scotland etc etc.
Out comes the whitewash 410
Posted on
October 04, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
To be honest, readers, we gave up on taking any notice of David Torrance‘s mundane attempts at trolling in the Herald some time ago. But some alert readers pointed us towards this week’s column, suggesting that it was a bald rewriting of history some way beyond their usual bland irritancy.
This was the passage they objected to:
It’s a patronising piece of “shut up and eat your cereal” condescension for sure. But to be fair to Torrance, it does also happen to be true. Wait, not true. The other thing.
An absence of challenge 140
Posted on
September 25, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Kezia Dugdale isn’t even trying to make our life difficult.
“I don’t think Jeremy can unite our party and lead us into government. He cannot appeal to a broad enough section of voters to win an election.” (22 August 2016)
“I believe that Jeremy can unite the Labour Party [and] win a general election.” (24 September 2016)
We’re sure that the media will pin Dugdale down over this weekend and we’ll get a detailed and convincing explanation of exactly what it is that she thinks changed about the fundamental nature of Jeremy Corbyn over that solitary month.
Dredging the sewers 227
Posted on
September 10, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We’ve already highlighted the abominable state of the Daily Express this week, but an article in today’s edition is surely some sort of record-breaking low.
Hold onto your hats, folks, you won’t believe this one.
Have you ever seen the rain? 227
Posted on
September 06, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The BBC lunchtime weather forecast of 15 October 1987 is now fondly looked back on as a moment of shared national doh-what-are-we-like? comedy, in the same vein as a Morecambe and Wise Christmas show or something.
But the reality was very dramatically different.
Nothing stays the same 103
Posted on
September 06, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
