An excellent question 45
Posted on
December 05, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Posed by Kezia Dugdale in the Holyrood chamber today:
Archive for the ‘scottish politics’
In different times 430
Posted on
December 04, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
If there’s one thing you can say for the Tories, it’s that right or wrong, they always stick to their principles.
Oh, not YOU, Scotland.
Articles without faith 397
Posted on
December 01, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
At a time of unprecedented political chaos and uncertainty, just about the only thing you can still count on is that for any given situation, senior Labour figures will issue proclamations both firmly in favour of it and stoutly opposed to it, usually the same day.
So the stories below, which are respectively from today’s Scotsman and today’s Times, won’t come as much of a shock to anyone.
But against the odds, we think we’ve made some sense of it.
Quick context check 174
Posted on
November 30, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The front page lead of today’s Scottish Daily Mail:
As alert readers of this site will know, the Mail has a particular fondness for presenting statistics bereft of any context so that people have no idea how big or small they really are. So is 1,600 passengers a week receiving compensation for delays a lot or a little? Let’s find out.
Something smells fishy 275
Posted on
November 29, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Pretending to be stupid 797
Posted on
November 25, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
All political discourse is plagued with genuine imbeciles, of course. But what’s far more depressing is when educated and normally perceptive people merely act like imbeciles for money, such as the case of Alex Massie in the Sunday Times today.
Because for the last two years, commentators who ought to know better have insisted in presenting Scotland’s choice as between Brexit or Brexit plus independence, and solemnly concluding that the uncertainties and risks of the latter being piled on top of those of the former prove that independence is no solution.
And we don’t care to have our intelligence insulted in that way.
Helping out Murdo 250
Posted on
November 23, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
A surprising convert 93
Posted on
November 22, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
A different kind of beat 105
Posted on
November 22, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
So this was in the Times football section today:
And you find yourself thinking, “Well gee, why might THAT be, Alex?”
Britain really is this stupid 136
Posted on
November 21, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
And we’re sure these guys are at least partly to blame.
