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Good nationalism, bad nationalism 180

Posted on February 14, 2013 by

Unionists never miss a chance to sneer at “Braveheart”, a film which won five Oscars and tells a true story (very heavily embellished by Hollywood) about a people’s fight for self-determination. Only last night, Scotland Tonight retweeted one eager young No voter using it as an explanation for the increase in support for independence among the 18-24 demographic, even though the film came out almost 20 years ago.

This sort of thing, though, is fine:

skyfall1

That’s because nationalism is great, so long as it’s British.

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And finally… #17 36

Posted on February 12, 2013 by

darlingcat

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And finally… #15 25

Posted on February 10, 2013 by

EXCLUSIVE! Wings Over Scotland discovers that after studying a number of secret UK Government documents the BBC is resigned to a Yes vote, has already removed Scotland from all its maps of the “United Kingdom”, and is preparing to replace the whole of BBC Scotland with Jeremy Clarkson after independence.

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Eggheads is going to be a bit different.

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And finally… #13 31

Posted on February 08, 2013 by

This splendid BBC news piece from 1975 about the Glasgow Underground appears to have been shot in some sort of awful, nightmarish post-apocalyptic wasteland. Or, put another way, a large and once-prosperous city run by Scottish Labour for 50 years.

We've forgotten whose Twitter feed we saw this on originally, sorry. But thanks, whoever it was.

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Worth a thousand words 23

Posted on February 08, 2013 by

This time next year, don't wish you'd started campaigning a year ago.

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And finally… #12 8

Posted on February 07, 2013 by

After The Referendum, No.1 – Ken Macintosh.

With dozens of Scottish Labour MPs suddenly scrabbling for jobs at Holyrood, the current D-listers will have to find alternative employment.

Deputy Assistant Manager, Eastwood Matalan.

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And finally… #11 53

Posted on February 05, 2013 by

Well, one out of three isn’t bad, we suppose.

We’re a bit confused by point 3, though. “It’s no wonder the SNP support the Government’s plans”, it notes. But hang on a minute – didn’t the No campaign director Blair McDougall tell us just days ago that the SNP “opposed” devolution in 1997? Who to believe? We just don’t know what to think any more.

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Illuminating the debate 23

Posted on February 04, 2013 by

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And finally… #10 28

Posted on February 02, 2013 by

Glasgow Labour reveal next council-election candidate:

(Inside man: alert reader “Al Ghaf”.)

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And finally… #9 28

Posted on February 01, 2013 by

Poor old Captain D still hasn’t found what he’s looking for.

Click the image to find out what it is.

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Better Together leaked posters #10 43

Posted on February 01, 2013 by

Seems to have been a small typesetting error on this one.

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And finally… #8 8

Posted on January 31, 2013 by

In the light of the Electoral Commission setting higher limits for referendum campaign spending, Labour’s Richard Baker, Dr. Richard Simpson and Alistair Darling embark on an urgent fundraising drive outside The Rangers’ next away game in SFL 3.

(We might have gone with this, but it doesn’t seem to be possible to embed YouTube video at a specified starting point, at least in so far as we don’t know how to do it.)

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