The star prize 77
Posted on
March 14, 2018 by
The History Twins
Archive for the ‘scottish politics’
Spinning down 177
Posted on
March 14, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
So here’s a headline from the (Dundee) Evening Telegraph.
You know how we’re always pointing out how newspapers love to lie to readers without actually saying things that are untrue? Let’s have a quick case study.
A historic breakthrough 579
Posted on
March 12, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We could all do with some cheering up at the moment, so it’s with great pleasure that we can announce fantastic news for Scotland – the ancient plague of sectarianism has finally been defeated once and for all!
At least, we assume it MUST have been, because this week the Scottish Parliament is set to give its final assent – thanks to Labour, the Tories, the Liberal Democrats and the all-important Scottish Greens – to abolishing the Offensive Behaviour (Football) Act, against the wishes of the overwhelming majority of the Scottish population.
And as we can plainly observe from events yesterday, they would only be doing that if sectarianism was no longer a problem and it was safe to send out an encouraging message to the bigots that their worldview is now acceptable in Scotland again.
The Cupid Stunt 412
Posted on
March 08, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
An alert reader conveniently located in the Aberdeen area pointed us to an “SNP BAD” story in the ever-willing Press & Journal today.
And it raised an awful lot of questions the P&J didn’t seem to want to ask.
Using the Force 58
Posted on
March 08, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
From today’s Scottish Daily Mail:
The slightly-less-well-known definition of “force” that means “a minority government persuading three out of four opposition parties to agree with it and democratically vote a measure through”, there.
Our problems and how to solve them 357
Posted on
March 05, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
As the winter Scottish political news drought enters its 17th week, mainstream and alternative media commentators alike are scratching around desperately for anything to write about, which tends to end up in overlong reflective and/or hectoring essays about how to secure independence, invariably concluding that what we need is for everyone in Scotland to start thinking and acting exactly like the author of the article.
We’re going to aim for something a bit shorter and more practical, at least.
Here come the monsters again 472
Posted on
February 27, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
If you’re a person (unemployed or working) subsisting via state welfare in the UK, there can be no more genuinely, blood-runs-cold, terrifying phrase in the English language than a Tory saying they’ve come up with “fresh thinking” on poverty and benefits.
Because – and if you’re only going to trust us on one thing in your life, trust us on this – it never, ever means your life’s about to get better.
Yet another metaphor 236
Posted on
February 26, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
…for the relationship between the four “partner” nations of the UK presented itself at the weekend when BBC anchorman John Inverdale asked the Scottish rugby pundit and former international Andy Nicol “what does this do for self-belief from a Scottish perspective, Andy?”
Which was clearly pretty ironic in itself:
But alert readers may recall how that “epitome of Better Together” worked out.
The tunes of glory 228
Posted on
February 25, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
After Scotland’s rugby team sent proud Edward (Jones)’s army homeward with some well-skelped erses from Murrayfield yesterday, it seemed like an opportune moment to reflect on this from just 12 years ago.
The full story is below.
The makings of a deal 374
Posted on
February 22, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
A timely reminder about how much 85% of British people (or to put that another way, English people) really value the rest of the UK.
“Lead us, Scotland, don’t leave us!” is going to be a pretty hard sell next time.
