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A thousand-word metaphor 237

Posted on September 02, 2014 by

landfillno

Reaching out to Venus 144

Posted on August 30, 2014 by

patronisingdebateman

The white man’s burden 135

Posted on August 23, 2014 by

borisback

True fear 79

Posted on August 16, 2014 by

hamishboo

It’s the wrong colour, too 344

Posted on August 09, 2014 by

planc

Westminster’s offer 183

Posted on August 07, 2014 by

pledge4a

Because you know he’s coming. Do you feel lucky, Labour voters?

Another mystery explained 135

Posted on August 07, 2014 by

It turns out that Jackie Baillie heard this and thought it was a referendum broadcast.

Silly old Jackie, eh readers?

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The times they have a-changed 213

Posted on July 27, 2014 by

Does anyone know if Alistair Darling (left, with banner) is still a republican?

republicandarling

He doesn’t seem to talk about it much these days.

Don’t you forget about me 280

Posted on July 26, 2014 by

indyrelephant

Box office gold 216

Posted on July 24, 2014 by

We suspect this isn’t one of the ones Mr Darling gets paid £10,000 for.

standing

Still, only putting out 12 seats is one way to guarantee a “standing room only” crowd.

The game-changer 162

Posted on July 19, 2014 by

We can see that Hands Across The Border is going to just keep on giving.

ukokay

Click here for more.

They are legion 335

Posted on July 12, 2014 by

Alert readers may recall a piece two months ago when we gently mocked the No campaign’s comical claim to have “more boots on the ground than its nationalist opponents. An article in the Telegraph suggested that “Better Together” could deploy 30,000 grassroots activists to knock doors and hand out leaflets paid for by millionaire Tory lords, with the largest troop concentrations in the key battleground of Glasgow.

toryglen

Right, just 29,994 left to find.

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    • Jamie on The Nobodies: “More pictures of Monica Bellucci are welcome.Jul 29, 11:11
    • Captain Caveman on The Nobodies: “Sometimes mockery is richly deserved and entirely apt. Besides, sticks and stones eh? Maybe people need to have thicker skins…Jul 29, 10:54
    • Xaracen on The Nobodies: “It had to be said, Northy, and you said it well.Jul 29, 10:37
    • Northcode on The Nobodies: ““Democratic institutions inside a colonial framework cannot produce constitutional change”: Is a premise put forward by Alf Baird as part…Jul 29, 10:24
    • sam on The Nobodies: “The i paper ‘Burnham bounce’ puts Labour ahead in poll, but can it last? 18:44 Mon, 27 Jul Yahoo News…Jul 29, 09:58
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    • Captain Caveman on The Nobodies: ““Racist yesterday, Alf, and now fascist today.” Is he really expressing such sentiments and views? If so, that’s a disgrace…Jul 29, 08:53
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    • Alf Baird on The Nobodies: “Indeed, “another lesson learned” is that fascist colonialism always has the ultimate method in its toolbox, if assimilation disna wirk,…Jul 28, 16:06
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    • sam on The Nobodies: ““Although these three parties are all within the margin of error of our previous poll, this is the highest figure…Jul 28, 12:28
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    • Alf Baird on The Nobodies: ““save for the moribund issue of the constitution” Its clear as day (except to colonialists it seems) that Swinney does…Jul 28, 11:24
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