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The Land Of Do-As-You-Please 170

Posted on August 17, 2026 by

The contempt for the Scottish public being openly shown by public servants paid from the public purse to answer to the public has at this point reached such endemic levels that we’re not sure an acceptable level of trust can ever be salvaged.

The reply above is not just evasive, not even just pathetic, it’s insulting – not just to us, but to every citizen of Scotland.

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Believers In The Ruins 137

Posted on August 13, 2026 by

Not done with celebrating defeat in an imaginary UDI yesterday, The National has gone with another big polling-based front cover today, and the party’s woke young stormtrooper drones are beside themselves with malignant glee.

Let’s just see what they’re cheering about.

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The Other Kind Of Winning 73

Posted on August 12, 2026 by

The National runs headlines like this quite often.

The sort-of newspaper doesn’t actually have a sports section – it just publishes The Herald’s – but if it did you have to wonder what it would look like.

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The Party Of The Dead 229

Posted on August 06, 2026 by

The SNP’s latest accounts are out.

And the zombie shambles on for another year.

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Anatomy Of A Grift 67

Posted on August 05, 2026 by

It’s sometimes tempting to believe that transactivists, and in particular the extra-loud attention-seeking type, are simply mad and/or stupid. But that’s not always the case, because this sounds like some actually pretty cunning work.

(Click pic to enlarge.)

But let’s start at the beginning.

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Or Something 88

Posted on August 03, 2026 by

We have today sent the following email to the Crown Office.

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The Deaf Eyes 31

Posted on August 02, 2026 by

This email actually came in a couple of days ago, but we’ve been too dumbstruck to respond to it until now.

Because, like, wow.

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The Nobodies 239

Posted on July 27, 2026 by

Apologies for the slightly shonky quality of this video, readers, which is due to the fact that ITV are such monumental self-sabotaging clowns that it’s not actually possible to screencap any sort of digital broadcast of theirs – screw YOU, viral content! – so we had to do this by videoing our iPad with our iPhone.

Ouch. And speaking of monumental self-sabotaging clowns, Scottish Labour.

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Ain’t it funny how things change? 301

Posted on July 22, 2026 by

Then, and now. (Click pic to enlarge.)

Scottish politics: where repeated catastrophic failure is just another way to succeed.

The Wheels Of Industry 84

Posted on July 20, 2026 by

Last Friday’s edition of The National ran this guff:

And as we often are, we were put in mind of the greatest politics book ever written.

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Progressing To Oblivion 49

Posted on July 19, 2026 by

It’s now more than three years since this site drew attention to the curious case of Progress Scotland, the zombie “polling company” run by the SNP’s Angus Robertson that had no employees and hadn’t published any polls since October 2020, but was apparently still accepting, and soliciting, donations from subscribers, and appeared to have disposed of a rather substantial amount of money (well into six figures) without producing anything to show for it.

We followed up the next day with another article about the company’s repeated delays in producing its 2021 accounts, which finally showed up in May 2023.

Here’s what the Progress Scotland website looks like today.

And once more, a few questions spring to mind.

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These Words Are My Own 162

Posted on July 17, 2026 by

It’s been another fabulous day on the front pages for Nicola Sturgeon.

The stories were triggered by a speech in the House Of Commons from Tory MP Sir David Davis, which you can watch below.

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