The Daily Mail, having unaccountably failed to notice the slew of Unionists who tried to blame the SNP for Charles Kennedy’s death before the body was cold on Tuesday, suddenly remembered to look at its Twitter timeline again today.
Because the media in Britain is now basically just a giant gossip circle repeating each other’s stories, pretty much every newspaper today repeats Michelle Mone’s tiresome publicity-seeking whinge about “cybernats” from the Mail On Sunday.
One of them is the Herald, whose piece contains a quote suggesting that Mone – who appeared to think that flitting from Scotland to England somehow got you away from the internet – does have at least some basic understanding of how Twitter works:
Now, we’re going to assume that by “the C word” she meant the four-letter insult, and by “the same party” we can deduce from context that she must mean the SNP.
So let’s just see if that claim stands up to scrutiny.
Michelle Mone, the titular head of a loss-making underwear company mostly owned by a shady Sri Lankan business group, who’s spent much of the last eight years trying to blackmail Scots by threatening to punish them with hundreds of job losses if they don’t vote the way she tells them to, has a 1400-word whine/house advert in the MoS today about how beastly cybernats have forced her to finally move to England.
Who wants to be the one to break it to her that they have Twitter in England too?
In its kneejerk “SNP BAD” reaction to the Alistair Carmichael affair, the Unionist establishment – politicians and media alike – has furiously tried to divert attention from Carmichael’s smear and attempted cover-up by harking back to an incident in 2012, when the press gave vast amounts of coverage to a claim that Alex Salmond had “lied” about legal advice regarding an independent Scotland’s EU membership.
Many of you won’t have seen this quite extraordinary performance from the Guardian’s assistant editor Michael White on last night’s Scotland Tonight, and you really should.
“Just go on the radio, play it all with a dead bat, fob them off with some bland waffle and kill the story”, the Lib Dems will have said to Sir Malcolm Bruce this morning.
Sorry for the wait, readers, but having fancy custom stuff made simply takes time.
However, we’re delighted to report that all of the donor perks for our 2015 fundraiser are now in our possession, and will be winging their way out to generous contributors over the next few days.
Many pundits are of the opinion that the new Tory Max government will be actively hostile to the BBC, which the party has long believed is an expensive public-sector hotbed of right-on lefties. So when we did our latest poll, it seemed worth finding out how much the people of Scotland valued the state broadcaster.
Much of the commentariat and media has been in a froth for the last 24 hours about the supposed failure of the nation’s pollsters to predict the Conservative victory. This, for example, was Labour’s highly-paid election guru David Axelrod:
But the truth is that the polls – just like the heavily-maligned exit poll which turned out to be bang on the money – got nothing wrong. The people interpreting them did.
Cynicus on A Matter Of Declinature: ““her most evil act was stitching up Alex Salmond to hide the truth” about Murrell’s crimes.” Lying Nicola Sturgeon destroyed…” Jul 17, 01:07
Young Lochinvar on A Matter Of Declinature: “HMcH @ 6.03 Even by your standards “old boy” over in the Scotchland Office that is a particularly pointless, smug…” Jul 17, 01:01
Cynicus on A Matter Of Declinature: ““ Dug wi a bone…” ============== But NOT a Wee Ginger one” Jul 17, 00:40
James on A Matter Of Declinature: “Aw, Northy- dinna be too hard on Poor Adrian. He’s just trying to join in.” Jul 16, 22:33
James on A Matter Of Declinature: “Well said, Alf. Don’t let these plants grind you down. Their orders are divert, distract, and divide. All day, every…” Jul 16, 22:29
robertkknight on A Matter Of Declinature: “Certainly didn’t miss and hit the wall.” Jul 16, 22:24
Alf Baird on A Matter Of Declinature: ““So why don’t you fess up to what this means” It means the ‘union’ aw you folks keep floggin is…” Jul 16, 21:48
Northcode on A Matter Of Declinature: ““Right, well the fact that you can’t fucking read doesn’t stop you posting endless drivel hour after hour, day after…” Jul 16, 21:47
sarah on A Matter Of Declinature: “Thanks, Dan, for posting the link at 6.22 to David Davis in the Commons today calling Sturgeon a liar and…” Jul 16, 21:41
100%Yes on A Matter Of Declinature: “Comments are simply priceless, thank you all made me lol. Its only the start.” Jul 16, 21:33
Mark Beggan on A Matter Of Declinature: “Aberdeen university totally distancing themselves from the freak Herbert. Mr Heather Herbert is the pinnacle of Leftwing policy. The fruits…” Jul 16, 21:17
Southernbystander on A Matter Of Declinature: “Almost everyone is blaming the manager! But not because he is German. Football fans always blame the manager, for everything.…” Jul 16, 21:04
Aidan on A Matter Of Declinature: “Right, well the fact that you can’t fucking read doesn’t stop you posting endless drivel hour after hour, day after…” Jul 16, 21:02
Mark Beggan on A Matter Of Declinature: “Who’s been feeding the Leftys? They’ve all went Legal International all of a sudden. Criteria being recognised, Determination of the…” Jul 16, 20:45
Northcode on A Matter Of Declinature: ““In Robert Black’s essay, the following is all one paragraph.” Christ Almighty! Do I need to explain EVERYTHING to you…” Jul 16, 20:43
Aidan on A Matter Of Declinature: “Well DuckDuckGo AI is about as reliable as it sounds. “Scotland is recognized as meeting the criteria for Non-Self-Governing Territories…” Jul 16, 20:18
Red on A Matter Of Declinature: “I’m sure the United Nations will help us. They love white people.” Jul 16, 20:17
Aidan on A Matter Of Declinature: “In Robert Black’s essay, the following is all one paragraph: The numbering (by regnal year and chapter number in The…” Jul 16, 20:08
100%Yes on A Matter Of Declinature: “I put in “Scotland un c-24” duckduckgo.com AI stated Scotland is recognized as meeting the criteria for Non-Self-Governing Territories by…” Jul 16, 19:58
Northcode on A Matter Of Declinature: “I didn’t read your comment, AI Dan… your paragraphs are too long and I could tell just by the picture…” Jul 16, 19:42
Hatey McHateface on A Matter Of Declinature: “Fascinating stuff, Willie. Can we expect your justification for asserting that Epstein was above the law any time soon? Seriously,…” Jul 16, 19:37
Hatey McHateface on A Matter Of Declinature: “So why don’t you fess up to what this means, Alf? I’m guessing you’re pushing this line as you believe…” Jul 16, 19:31
Aidan on A Matter Of Declinature: “Does Robert Black say anywhere that the union is a constitutional impossibility and that therefore the acts of union are…” Jul 16, 19:30
Hatey McHateface on A Matter Of Declinature: “@Aidan You too have a problem. Your problem is that despite all the evidence to the contrary, you appear to…” Jul 16, 19:20
Aidan on A Matter Of Declinature: ““Dunlop is historically wrong, but ‘right’ within the UK’s legal system because the UK legal system defines its own truth.…” Jul 16, 19:13
Alf Baird on A Matter Of Declinature: “You are making things up, Aidan. Professor Black, “looking as a lawyer with fresh eyes” believes the UK ‘union’ to…” Jul 16, 19:05
Aidan on A Matter Of Declinature: “The problem is Northcode is that your lack of knowledge and analytical ability is combined with an absurd level of…” Jul 16, 18:58
Hatey McHateface on A Matter Of Declinature: “Of course you can’t make it simpler, Northy. We get it loud and clear. Right is wrong and wrong is…” Jul 16, 18:36
Hatey McHateface on The Invisible Rabbit: “Wee Wally Winky reminds us of more innocent times. Was it “Winky”? I forget.” Jul 16, 18:31
