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The invisible army 154

Posted on May 15, 2014 by

We’ve been wiping tears of laughter from our eyes most of this morning, after reading one of the most magnificently bare-faced and audacious pieces of black-is-white lying we think we might ever have seen printed with a straight face in a British newspaper.

It appears in the Telegraph, which seems to have positioned itself latterly as the Daily Sport for people with a reading age above seven, and makes the mindboggling claim that “Contrary to its media image, the campaign to save the United Kingdom says it has more boots on the ground than its nationalist opponents”.

boots

In fairness, it doesn’t actually say whether these boots have any feet in them.

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Stripped bare 88

Posted on May 10, 2014 by

We apologise on all sorts of levels.

thenakedtuba

Putting your fingers on it 196

Posted on May 06, 2014 by

We can’t remember if anyone mentioned this last week when we were talking about the Scotland Office’s bizarre Buzzfeed escapades, so we’ll just put it up here now.

eurolotto

There’s something not quite right about that picture and the words underneath it, isn’t there, readers? Have you spotted it yet?

Russian standards 89

Posted on May 03, 2014 by

camvlad

More crowdfunding required 87

Posted on April 30, 2014 by

Can we please buy the Telegraph a new picture to depict “Scottish people”?

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One broken promise too many 76

Posted on April 26, 2014 by

hamishlabour

(See also here.)

The independence debate at a glance 65

Posted on April 24, 2014 by

Three years summed up in two tweets:

As a rule, only one of these stories would get printed.

(We’re kidding, of course. Normally the media isn’t nearly that balanced.)

Misleading advertising 52

Posted on April 13, 2014 by

The pitch:

btclydebank

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The sunshine coach 64

Posted on April 12, 2014 by

thesunshinecoach

Just the brass tacks 92

Posted on April 05, 2014 by

We appreciate some of you have been struggling to keep up with our investigations into Labour’s devolution proposals. So we’ve boiled it right down.

straight1

Shifting the blame 71

Posted on April 05, 2014 by

carcrash

Thinking about leaving the house 80

Posted on March 31, 2014 by

Better Together Parklife!

btparklife

The Quiz Broadcast will be on soon. Britons should REMAIN INDOORS.

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