The Scottish Daily Mail’s front page lead today is so galactically despicable that it’s easy to overlook another story that it bundles in with the same “SNP BAD” attack.
While excoriating Dr Philippa Whitford for having the sheer shameless gall to help save women’s lives in her holidays, the alleged newspaper also devotes a page-high article to an attack on another Nat MP, George Kerevan, for employing his wife.
As it happens, one of the things that we’ve been occupying ourselves with during the current news drought is pulling together a post called “The SNPBAD Files”, collecting all the desperate smear and innuendo of the Unionist press as it systematically tries to discredit every one of the 56 SNP MPs elected last May.
Until last night we hadn’t been sure which had been the most pathetically dismal. Was it the MP who still did a few haircuts in his barber shop on Saturday afternoons? The one who bought a derelict London house many years before he was an MP, renovated it with his own hands and now sometimes stays there when working at Westminster, rather than charging expenses to the public for accommodation? Or perhaps the one who tweeted that he was opposed to the concept of monarchy, the foul monster?
In a cunning meta-twist which simultaneously proves and disproves its own claim, the headline above is itself a lie. It’s of course not true that every single headline you read in a newspaper is absolutely false.
We’re not saying there isn’t a lot going on at the moment, but today’s Daily Record actually devotes a page to telling women when to change their pants.
Normally when the BBC’s Andrew Neil asks a politician to put a figure on one of their policy proposals the interviewee should be wary, because a trap is about to be sprung.
The groupthink of the Unionist commentariat is unfailingly a sight to behold. Barely a dozen weeks ago we drew attention to a seasonal crop of articles professing that the end of the SNP’s eight-year “honeymoon” was in sight, and that surely voters would surely tire at any moment of their supposed poor record in government.
But after the damage anticipated by the press from the Forth Bridge affair and another load of ham-fisted Labour attacks failed to materialise (defused in part by a set of excellent and significantly improved NHS waiting-time stats that must have had the BBC’s Eleanor Bradford weeping inconsolably into her clipboard), the pundit hive-mind has moved swiftly on to a new outlook: morose resignation.
Thanks to the Scottish Daily Mail, we’ve just spotted a piece by the Conservative MP Bernard Jenkin for City AM a few days ago. We had an inordinate amount of trouble getting the full article to display past the site’s incredibly over-zealous advert enforcer, so we’ve preserved it for posterity here.
There’s a gem in every paragraph. You’re going to like this one.
We thought we might leave this here so that Scottish journalists could print it out and stick it on their monitors as a memory aid. It’s something they keep unaccountably forgetting for some reason.
You never know, it might just cheer them up a bit.
Bobo bunny on When the law breaks the law: “MacEleny a unionist plant? He seems to have destroyed the party from the inside. Where’s the money, Chris?” Feb 21, 15:53
Anne on When the law breaks the law: “Kennys account is the truth of events and it is a tragedy ,for us and for Scotland .” Feb 21, 15:41
ScotsRenewables on When the law breaks the law: “Well, that’s that fucked then. Looking forward to hearing the inside scoop from Stu on this particular pile of wombat…” Feb 21, 15:24
Garavelli Princip on When the law breaks the law: ““Perhaps you could inform us which “senior Whitehall-appointed civil servants” just got rid of Scotland’s Not Proven verdict”. That’s not…” Feb 21, 14:26
Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh on When the law breaks the law: “ALBA PARTY LEADER’S UPDATE Dear friend Let me, firstly, thank you for your support for our Party over these past…” Feb 21, 14:19
Hatey McHateface on When the law breaks the law: ““A much better version than the original” Sorry, Northy, but naw. As the most recent research indicates that Shakespeare was…” Feb 21, 13:42
Hatey McHateface on When the law breaks the law: ““rape and pillage, sell out your country” My, willie, either you subscribe to a much more sensationalist publication than I…” Feb 21, 13:36
Northcode on When the law breaks the law: “Here’s a better version of Hamlet, the play scribbled doun by Shakespeare, scrieven by the same lass who wrote WIDDERSHIN.…” Feb 21, 13:16
Northcode on When the law breaks the law: “Since bugger aw is happening in this place here’s some poetry scrieven in Scots and quilled by a Scot fir…” Feb 21, 12:49
Marie on When the law breaks the law: “It’s the concept of the UK that people on here have a problem with – not the reality that the…” Feb 21, 11:25
Hatey McHateface on When the law breaks the law: “Hope ye were wearing a guid pair o tackety boots, Marie. An nae standin oan a tiled flair!” Feb 21, 11:06
Hatey McHateface on When the law breaks the law: “Ah, c’moan noo, x, hoo mony years ye bin oan here an ye’ve learnit naething? Nae sic a thing as…” Feb 21, 11:04
agentx on When the law breaks the law: “The Isle of Islay is now in British waters having steamed past Lands End and heading for Greenock at 15.6kn.…” Feb 21, 10:50
Northcode on When the law breaks the law: “Guid mornin’ tae aw yous folk fannyin aboot oan here. Hae a guid weekend the lot o ye, aye. Thon…” Feb 21, 10:32
Marie on When the law breaks the law: “It was easy to hoodwink people in the olden days. In the olden days could incur the wrath of a…” Feb 21, 10:26
Hatey McHateface on When the law breaks the law: “@Onlooker Not my fault that you lack the smarts to follow my posts. You’re online, obviously. Most of human knowledge…” Feb 21, 10:23
willie on When the law breaks the law: “Absolutely interesting points about allegiance and fighting for who. One thing that has come out into the public domain is…” Feb 21, 10:20
Hatey McHateface on When the law breaks the law: “Loving the idea that there are such things as legal and illegal wars, Marie, and that once the shooting starts,…” Feb 21, 10:12
TURABDIN on When the law breaks the law: “«This one has a way to run and run, and the stench which surrounds both politics and the Palace will…” Feb 21, 09:36
Marie on When the law breaks the law: “@McHate 11.14pm (20/2/26). When you are sent to illegal wars and see obscene acts of violence against civilians you return…” Feb 21, 09:27
Dan on When the law breaks the law: “@ Onlooker https://grousebeater.wordpress.com/2021/05/21/sturgeons-skeleton/ https://petercherbi.wordpress.com/2021/03/10/first-interests-judge-recommended-for-judicial-role-by-nicola-sturgeon-found-first-minister-committed-three-counts-of-professional-misconduct-in-law-society-probe-of-ms-sturgeons-failure-to-pro/” Feb 21, 09:04
Young Lochinvar on When the law breaks the law: “Any truth in the rumour Keir Starmer is going to appoint Gary Glitter as Ambassador to the USA?” Feb 21, 02:07
Young Lochinvar on When the law breaks the law: “HMcH Well Oi Vey Y’all!! FYI: Mumbling was permitted when swearing-in in divided Glasgow back then.. AI not tell you…” Feb 21, 00:01
Onlooker on When the law breaks the law: “Reply reply reply reply reply reply reply sneer fart waffle baffle babble…if you are a paid bot, you must have…” Feb 20, 23:22
Onlooker on When the law breaks the law: “Forgive my lack of exact recollection of details, but didn’t Nicola Sturgeon recommend Dorothy Bain for the Lord Advocate job…” Feb 20, 23:20
Young Lochinvar on When the law breaks the law: “Anyone see the irony of Ross Greer attacking Randy Andy (guilty as eff probably) while “its” party was the governmental…” Feb 20, 23:20
Hatey McHateface on When the law breaks the law: “I recall you claiming you served in the British Army. That will make you one of the very few (perhaps…” Feb 20, 23:14
Young Lochinvar on When the law breaks the law: “Interesting how quickly, all things considered, that things have moved on since Auld Lizzie the lizard shuffled off this mortal…” Feb 20, 22:53
