The Longest Lie 130
Posted on
January 05, 2024 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
BBC Reporting Scotland last night:
Truly, this is the bullshit that just won’t die.
Archive for the ‘media’
News Of The World 85
Posted on
December 15, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The Spoilers 48
Posted on
November 14, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Zilch continues to happen in Scottish politics, so to pass a bleak November afternoon we’re going to do something we haven’t done on Wings for years: talk about football.
Try not to panic, because it’s really about the Scottish media – just like it used to be back in the good old days when they, rather than the SNP, were the main obstacles to Scottish independence. But there’s going to be quite a bit of football involved along the way, so if you can’t bear it, just go and stare out of the window and wait for Spring.
The National Embarrassment 156
Posted on
October 16, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We thought this was overdue an update. It’s got about 16 new front pages on it, one whole new row and a handful of newly-rediscovered replacements. It really is worth taking a few minutes to peruse it properly (click on the pic to enlarge it) to get the full effect of eight wasted years of deja vu disappointment.
It’s not even The National’s fault. They’re a business, they’re simply trying to sell a few papers to a diminishing audience of endlessly gullible eejits. The real fault lies with the halfwitted SNP members who just keep on doggedly failing to learn a single lesson, and repeatedly vote to carry on doing what they know doesn’t work and never will.
Ach weel, as they used to say.
21 days later 77
Posted on
October 08, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
A page 2 “SUNDAY MAIL EXCLUSIVE“ from Hannah “Trannah” Rodger today:
Or if you’re a Wings follower, last month’s news.
From the archives #16 132
Posted on
October 02, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Someone tweeted this today:
We were curious to find out what we’d said, but it seems to have been expunged from The National’s website. We eventually managed to track the email down in our vaults, though, so just as a bit of a change, here it is, as a reminder of a different time.
Infinite Carrot Generator 144
Posted on
September 15, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The key word here is “DEMAND”.
Because we’ve heard that one before, haven’t we?
When they tell you who they are 97
Posted on
August 30, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Wings, a little under two years ago: “there is no “independence movement” any more, just an independence industry“.
And then today:
You should believe them.
A plague of weasels 172
Posted on
August 27, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Scotland’s biggest cultural problem famously used to be with its alpha males: hard-working, hard-drinking men, often sexist and openly sectarian, with an easy propensity for violence. (The archetype cut right across every social class, from shipyard workers to high-ranking police officers and everywhere between and beyond.)
But times change, and thankfully those characters are now almost entirely a thing of the past. Less happily, though, they’ve simply been replaced by a breed that’s every bit as unpleasant, just in slightly different ways. Readers, meet the Beta Bullies.
Not literally, obviously. Nobody wants that.
Dead Cat Bouncing 58
Posted on
August 24, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We know the meanings of words are very flexible these days, especially in the SNP.
But this isn’t our understanding of the term “turning around”:
Gone Fishin’ 94
Posted on
August 08, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Look, we know. But there’s no news. Check out the state of it.
“KEYBOARD PLAYER ALLEGEDLY GOT FAT-SHAMED AT SOME UNSPECIFIED POINT IN TIME BY FOURTH-DIVISION BAND WHO LAST HAD A TOP 40 SINGLE IN 2006“ and “CYCLIST GOES TO TOILET”. Front pages.
(The keyboard player now works for SNP pie-disposal unit Anne McLaughlin, ironically, which seems to be the closest relationship the story has with current affairs. But hey, kudos to the Record for beating all the other papers to that “exclusive”.)
We remain alert. If anything remotely worthwhile happens, we’ll be on it.
Fears For Souvenirs 186
Posted on
July 26, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Allow us to present Exhibit C, if you know what we’re saying.
Won’t someone rid them of this turbulent priest once and for all?
