His Majesty’s Loyal Sabre 227
Posted on
September 21, 2026 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Funny how people change, isn’t it?
That sounds a lot to us like “Bombs Not Bairns”.
Archive for the ‘media’
The Other Kind Of Winning 73
Posted on
August 12, 2026 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The National runs headlines like this quite often.
The sort-of newspaper doesn’t actually have a sports section – it just publishes The Herald’s – but if it did you have to wonder what it would look like.
Tuning In The Shine 26
Posted on
July 02, 2026 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
For any of you who haven’t caught it yet, my interview from Monday’s BBC Scotcast (which is also available on Spotify).
Sadly due to a summer scheduling quirk the video version won’t go out on the telly, and seemingly not on the BBC YouTube page either, so you’ll just have to listen to the audio and somehow live without seeing my gorgeous face.
Kings Of Crisis Management 49
Posted on
June 04, 2026 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
If you subscribe to the theory that it’s better to fight 100 duck-sized horses than a single horse-sized duck, the SNP is knocking it out of the park today.
Because the papers just can’t make their minds up about the biggest story with which to attack John Swinney’s beleaguered party.
The quality of mercy 238
Posted on
April 03, 2026 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Let’s just deal with this quickly.
Because the truth is that we should all be quietly sending BBC Scotland bouquets in appreciation for doing the independence movement a favour for once.
Your enemy’s mistakes 93
Posted on
October 16, 2025 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
So on the surface level this is just flat-out hilarious.
Firstly because, as we showed you yesterday, the “significant proportion of Scotland’s population” which appears to have been won back to the SNP since John Swinney became its leader is… 1%.
Calm down, lads 71
Posted on
September 20, 2025 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Don’t you know there’s no oil left there anyway?
(Apologies for our impromptu week off, we’ve been very busy with other stuff and there was nothing happening in Scottish politics anyway. See you on Monday.)
The Deafening Echo Of Nothing 137
Posted on
August 03, 2025 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
These two Sunday front pages three weeks apart sounded awfully similar.
But it turned out to be a lot worse than we thought.
According As We Need Them 262
Posted on
July 13, 2025 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We’ve said it for a lot of years, but “1984” really does contain a complete explanation of every aspect of modern life, and especially politics.
So let’s look at today’s Herald On Sunday, and in particular its “special report”.
Ball Of Confusion 18
Posted on
June 05, 2025 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We must admit, we don’t quite get what the Daily Record is trying to achieve.
Having already told its dwindling band of readers that voting for both the SNP and Labour is the only way to stop Reform in today’s Hamilton by-election, for the last two days it’s deployed some random loony in a hard hat and the vegan former Rangers captain Graeme Souness to the same ostensible end.
Souness, famously a supporter of Margaret Thatcher and the Conservatives, tells Record readers today that they must vote Labour in order to prevent Thatcher’s right-wing heirs from winning the seat – even though Labour are dead, plucked, stuffed and cooked geese in the eyes of the bookmakers and voting for them only increases the chances of both Reform AND the SNP.
We’ll make this quick 43
Posted on
May 04, 2025 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Unhinged Malady 166
Posted on
April 23, 2025 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Yesterday the Scottish media gave Scottish Greens MSP Maggie Chapman what she’s never willingly given anyone else – a platform on which to make her case.
Most did a very poor job challenging her on her outrageous comments about the Supreme Court, with BBC Radio Scotland’s Drivetime show being an especially wretched example of allowing the interviewee to ignore every question and then just ramble on endlessly about something else entirely, but LBC’s Gina Davidson was on top of her brief and put all the points that reasonable people wanted to be made, while giving Chapman ample time to answer uninterrupted.
Let’s break down how that went, with the help of our handy Bullshit Buzzer.
