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Let’s be careful out there 88

Posted on May 11, 2013 by

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Auntie Tam 47

Posted on May 05, 2013 by

susielauder

Health and safety bulletin 76

Posted on May 04, 2013 by

Alert readers may recall the anti-independence “Better Together” campaign’s rather, shall we say, enthusiastic approach to statistics. Earlier today we noticed them excitedly tweeting “Head count just done! About 600 at the launch of #bettertogether Edinburgh!”, and wondered if they might have once again been so kind as to provide a picture for purposes of verification. And bless them, they had.

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If you’re looking at that shot and thinking that it’s certainly full but doesn’t look much like “about 600” people, you’re not alone. So we did a quick bit of investigating.

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Could they be related? 71

Posted on May 01, 2013 by

Our mole at "Better Together" HQ leaks another upcoming poster.

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Great work, Anas "Agent X"!

The Battle Of Osborne’s Nose 31

Posted on April 27, 2013 by

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(The first of our hopefully-regular weekend cartoons on the week’s big issue.)

Counting with Unionists 91

Posted on April 26, 2013 by

We already know that the No camp has, shall we say, a bit of difficulty when it comes to basic arithmetic. But rarely do they demonstrate it so eagerly as they did last night.

bt150

We very much appreciate their helping to make our job easier.

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A simple guide 55

Posted on April 22, 2013 by

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Odd comrade out 114

Posted on April 22, 2013 by

There’s something different about one of these pictures of all the big-name speakers at the Scottish Labour conference, but we can’t quite seem to put our finger on it.

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Can you help, readers?

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Fixed that for you 62

Posted on April 21, 2013 by

We’ve had a look at this troubling issue before.

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Click the image to solve the problem.

Smile and the world smiles with you 144

Posted on April 20, 2013 by

We very much doubt we’ll ever tire of picture galleries of happy party-conference faces, and we know you like them too. So here’s a spirit-lifting selection from this weekend’s joyful gathering of Scottish Labour in Inverness.

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Caption suggestions in the comments as usual, please.

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Mrs Thatcher’s other funeral 65

Posted on April 17, 2013 by

We doff our hats to the people of former mining village Goldthorpe in South Yorkshire today. This afternoon they marked the passing of Baroness Thatcher according to their own experience of her, and it didn’t cost the taxpayer a single penny.

goldthorpe

Full picture gallery courtesy of BBC reporter James Vincent here, story here.

But firstly 40

Posted on April 15, 2013 by

It’s Monday morning, so rather than have an “And finally…” tonight we thought we’d cheer you up ahead of the grimmest day of the week with a couple of completely genuine unPhotoshopped images from this morning’s BBC Breakfast.

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We’d love to imagine this was a satirical “accident”.

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