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Waiting for Nicola 323

Posted on May 04, 2015 by

Taken in Greenock earlier, prior to the First Minister’s visit.

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It seems an appropriate image for today.

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The toll taken 265

Posted on April 29, 2015 by

On the left, Jim Murphy campaigning for the Scottish Labour leadership a few months ago (the backdrop is distinctive, placing the pic sometime last November).

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On the right, Jim Murphy on STV tonight.

Don’t tell lies, readers. It drains your soul.

Ironic juxtaposition 135

Posted on April 25, 2015 by

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Scottish capital grinds to halt 125

Posted on April 23, 2015 by

It’s another tumultuous Jim Murphy Rally, readers!

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We’re just putting this shot of today’s brief Edinburgh gathering (from Isabel Hardman of the Spectator) here for the record, so people can compare it with the footage and images that appear on tonight’s news bulletins and tomorrow’s newspapers.

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Bloody nationalists 202

Posted on April 14, 2015 by

Don’t you just hate ’em?

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A matter of scale 252

Posted on April 12, 2015 by

A super-alert reader pointed out something about today’s Sunday Politics that we hadn’t noticed. Before the galaxy-class trainwreck that was the Scottish leaders’ debate, the networked section of the show had a piece on Scottish polling, and our eagle-eyed viewer spotted that the chart of projected seats wasn’t in proportion.

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So we measured, and this is what it should have looked like.

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Heartless, clueless, reckless, voteless 272

Posted on March 20, 2015 by

Because we know you love a conference gallery.

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Here’s the Scottish Lib Dems in Aberdeen.

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Yeah, that definitely seems fine 332

Posted on March 09, 2015 by

From Steve Bell in your liberal, Labour-supporting Guardian today:

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Feel that social-democratic brotherly British love, readers.

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Here, kitty kitty kitty 121

Posted on March 07, 2015 by

We were trying to think what this picture from today reminded us of.

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To gaze into the abyss 287

Posted on March 07, 2015 by

Looks like this.

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Asking for it 573

Posted on March 01, 2015 by

Because this is an actual thing that’s happening.

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A serious matter 257

Posted on November 20, 2014 by

Packed Labour benches for the devolution debate in the Commons today.

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We’re sure Gordon Brown’s just nipped out for a Snickers or something.

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