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?
Archive for the ‘media’
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 Less happily, though, they’ve simply been replaced by a breed that’s every bit as unpleasant, just in slightly different ways.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?
The Electric Chair 95
Posted on
July 21, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
At least, we assume there was a sizeable current being passed through it, as little else could explain the visibly uncomfortable half-hour experienced by hapless Stonewall chair Iain Anderson with Beth Rigby last night, or the seemingly random changes every few seconds in his facial expressions, body language and accent.
(Just about the only constant, other than his sweating top lip, was the deeply irritating modern phenomenon of stupid people starting every sentence with the word “So…”.)
If you’re a connoisseur of vacuous, nervous awkwardness you’re in for a real treat. If you want to see a human being actually answering any questions with even the tiniest shred of coherence, pertinence or honesty, maybe give it a miss.
News Roundup 212
Posted on
July 02, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Here are three recent newspaper stories. This one’s from two weeks ago:
A wealthy businessman, related to an SNP MP, is alleged to have donated tens of thousands of pounds in envelopes to the party which it is claimed have unlawfully not been recorded with the Electoral Commission.
Kiss With A Fist 56
Posted on
June 23, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We’ve seen some hilarious demands for “unity” in the independence movement in the last couple of years, almost all of them from the most divisive figures ever to wave a wee plastic Saltire (Pete Wishart, Neil Mackay, Wee Ginger Dug etc etc).
But this effort from the SNP’s new airhead mascot takes the shortbread.
A man hears what he wants to hear 97
Posted on
June 16, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
This quote:
Does not say this:
No matter how much we’re all desperate for a story.
High on the groundhog 194
Posted on
June 01, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
This is a wretchedly boring time to be writing about politics for a living, readers. Parliamentarians in Edinburgh and London haven’t technically checked out for the summer yet – Holyrood still has a month to go before taking two months off, while Westminster is currently having a couple of weeks off for “Whitsun”, whatever the hell that is, before coming back for a month and a half then sodding off until September.
But really they’re already at the “bringing board games in” stage of term, and both the elected chambers and the media already have their eyes on the beach, which probably explains why we’re being punted drivel like this.
Even if we must afford the graphics team some grudging kudos for the unicoo.
If you tolerate this 165
Posted on
May 12, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Below is a clip from last night’s ITV News West Country.
It really needs a wider audience.
