The final meltdown 338
Posted on
April 08, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Archive for the ‘scottish politics’
The panellist and the activist 357
Posted on
April 06, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Those of you who read our post of earlier today probably didn’t feel there was anything ambiguous going on in it. When Ruth Davidson intervened in an election debate to protest that the chair, the BBC’s Louise White, was being unfair to Nicola Sturgeon, it was pretty obvious who she meant, and White’s response removed any doubt.
Which makes this eye-witness account of the event, spotted by an alert reader this afternoon, odd in several ways.
Let’s count them up.
Hostile questioning 183
Posted on
April 06, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We were rather gobsmacked, readers, when we tuned into this morning’s BBC Radio Scotland phone-in at 9am. Ostensibly discussing the promotion of “Rangers” to the Premiership, presenter Louise White adopted the most astonishingly, openly partisan and aggressive approach we’ve ever heard from a host on the state broadcaster (which is no small feat), on the subject of whether the club was a new one or not.
Callers were harangued, interrupted and hustled on for daring to suggest the truth. It was a jaw-dropping display of disregard for not only impartiality but basic journalistic regard for the plain, uncontestable facts of the matter.
But don’t panic, football-haters. This post is about something else.
Kezia Dugdale Fact Check, Part 676 96
Posted on
April 05, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Kezia Dugdale, 7 March 2016:
Let’s just run that one through the ol’ Checkalizer 5000.
April Fool Of The Year 2016 266
Posted on
April 04, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Goes to the BBC, for this cracker on Friday.
That is some arch satire right there, Auntie. Well done.
The Sunday Review 210
Posted on
April 03, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
This is an intriguing and engrossing extended chat between Christopher Silver and Iain Macwhirter for what will hopefully become a regular series by the excellent Phantom Power Films, creators of Altered States and lots more:
It’s well worth whiling away a little bit of your afternoon on.
Replacement cartoon service 228
Posted on
April 02, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Chris Cairns is on holiday. Yes, again.
It shouldn’t happen to a vetter 82
Posted on
April 02, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
If there’s one thing the Scottish Conservatives love to do, it’s lecture the SNP about vetting its candidates. Here’s Ruth Davidson on Michelle Thomson, for example:
And it’s not just her.
Let’s get the party started 257
Posted on
April 01, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Because this just happened:
And that’s about as close to a guarantee as you’ll get, readers.
The subject of ruin 185
Posted on
March 31, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We haven’t seen this published anywhere else, so we may as well do it. We dropped a brief line to the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust a few days ago querying their award of a £50,000 grant to disgraced lying MP Alistair Carmichael, specifically in the context of the fact that their own website expressly excludes grants for “legal fees”.
Below is their response, which we received today.
The unsettled will 141
Posted on
March 31, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
This is a Scotsman front page from nine months ago:
We don’t think many people would disagree with that.
The last four minutes 170
Posted on
March 30, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
In the end, we decided comment on this was superfluous.
(Good Morning Scotland, BBC Radio Scotland, 30 March 2016)
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Michael McMahon, the Scottish Labour candidate for Uddingston & Bellshill, has been MSP for the seat (or its previous equivalent) since 1999.
