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The winners 365

Posted on November 14, 2014 by

The SNP’s new leader and First Minister-elect, and her deputy.

snpwinners

He is the eggman 158

Posted on November 01, 2014 by

eggman

A big boy did it and ran away 210

Posted on October 26, 2014 by

sadhenry

Le tricoteur 171

Posted on October 19, 2014 by

mawbroon

Gogszilla Returns (to the back benches) 342

Posted on October 03, 2014 by

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Caught between 516

Posted on September 27, 2014 by

rockhard

The candle 429

Posted on September 20, 2014 by

hopesnuff

We are not afraid 1,079

Posted on September 14, 2014 by

Alert readers will remember that Gordon Brown, who is apparently some sort of former politician, has recently been spreading the completely baseless scare story that Scots would no longer receive organ transplants or blood transfusions from other people in the UK (and vice versa) in the event of independence.

On Friday night, before the Orange Order marched in the streets of Edinburgh with “NO POPERY” banners, a young woman with a life-limiting illness called Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency climbed the face of Edinburgh Castle with oxygen strapped to her back and tubes up her nose. (The only cure for A1AD is a double lung transplant.)

This is what she did there.

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And then my heart went boom 290

Posted on September 13, 2014 by

The picture the BBC chose to illustrate events in Glasgow’s Buchanan Street today:

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The opposite of prestige 100

Posted on September 13, 2014 by

oink

At the last gasp 133

Posted on September 08, 2014 by

We apologise for any images conjured by that headline.

willskate

Above is our Chris Cairns cartoon from June 2013. And here’s today’s news.

Something in reserve 81

Posted on September 06, 2014 by

finalbend

*Readers! Meet Chris in person next Thursday as part of the Scottish Cartoon Art Studio. Tickets are FREE but you need to book in advance. – Ed.

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