Sense less common 70
Posted on
April 15, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The Scottish Conservatives manifesto for Holyrood, 2011:
But maybe it’s different if you’re openly campaigning to lose.
Archive for the ‘history’
Every day is a new day 81
Posted on
April 13, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Not so very long ago, someone said this:
Of course, it’s not that day any more.
Let’s get the party started 257
Posted on
April 01, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Because this just happened:
And that’s about as close to a guarantee as you’ll get, readers.
Hindsight in reverse 136
Posted on
March 30, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Kezia Dugdale gave an interview to Good Morning Scotland earlier today that viewed from above would probably look rather like the runway at Baghdad Airport in 1991.
If we tried to pick out all the individual bomb craters in one post, readers’ eyes would glaze over long before the end. So we’re going to have to do it in bits.
Pack up, don’t stray 90
Posted on
March 26, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We were mucking about doing some other stuff today when we came across these. We thought they looked quite striking all put together.
No other reason than that, really.
At Easter the prophet rose again 191
Posted on
March 25, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
A message of hope for Good Friday from everyone’s favourite Labour activist:
Once upon a time 152
Posted on
March 24, 2016 by
Lynn Blair
“Dry your eyes. On your feet.”
Sometimes the world’s random turns throw up a charmed piece of timing. That was the first tweet that I read on 19th September 2014, sitting on the side of the bed, eyes burning, wondering what on Earth I could possibly do with a day for which I’d bought champagne, but which broke my heart before dawn.
I’d resisted Twitter for a while, then fallen in love with it, weirdly comfortable with the disembodied voices of strangers. Small phrases, 140 characters: at its best, little postcards that made me smile, laugh or think.
For whatever reason, that tweet cut through, its arrival perfect to give me a virtual shake. I’d tell the writer – if I knew who they were – that I managed to carry out half of their instruction to us hollow-eyed, political orphans that day, though I failed miserably for a while on the first bit.
Today we should have become independent. We’re not, and it’s not okay, but since I don’t think we can ignore the power that time and timing can possess, and since words are all I’ve got, I’d like to tell you a story.
The Wee Black Book 315
Posted on
March 24, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Funny how things come around 179
Posted on
March 19, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
From a BBC report on the 2004 Scottish Labour conference:
And to give the former First Minister his due, he wasn’t wrong.
The extraordinary untruth 237
Posted on
March 11, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We don’t normally ask you to watch videos as long as this, readers. (Although at 4m 22s it’s still not War And Peace.) As a rule the key part of any TV discussion can be boiled down to a few seconds, but this one needs to be taken in at a bit more length.
It happened on last night’s Question Time from Dundee, and was already 10 minutes into a discussion about whether there might be a second independence referendum and what might trigger it, in particular the prospect of Scotland voting to remain in the EU in June but the rest of the UK voting to leave, dragging Scotland out forcibly.
At that point, host David Dimbleby made an inexplicable intervention, abandoning his position as supposedly neutral moderator to pluck a “fact” out of thin air with which to attack the SNP’s John Swinney. Here’s what unfolded.
Wait, what?
Better Together 1776 139
Posted on
March 10, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
It turns out Scotland isn’t the first country to be too wee, too poor and too stupid for independence from the mighty and benificent United Kingdom.
The past is another country 375
Posted on
March 06, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
This week Scottish Labour have been attacking the SNP’s rather timid plans for the reform of Council Tax, which is an entirely fair and legitimate opposition pursuit.
But as is their wont, Kezia Dugdale’s branch office just can’t help overplaying their hand and doing it in a highly dishonest way.
