An absence of clarity 307
Posted on
December 04, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
On Wednesday the Daily Record ran this story:
It didn’t have to wait long for the “questions” to be answered.
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The silence of the bams 163
Posted on
December 02, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
It’s never usually terribly difficult to get a Scottish Labour MSP to express a view on anything. It’s hard to open a newspaper without being forced to hear Jackie Baillie or James Kelly’s opinion on something or other.
(Admittedly it’s generally the SNP, and the opinion is invariably that they’re bad and whatever they do is wrong – but still, they’re not shy about coming forward with it.)
So when Neil Findlay attacked the SNP for all having the same view on bombing Syria last night (about which he was inexplicably furious, even though that view was exactly the same as his own opinion), we thought it’d be easy enough to find out how many of his MSP colleagues were on the respective sides of the debate.
It turned out that we were wrong.
The Eurasia Principle 217
Posted on
December 01, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The meme of the week among the Unionist media and politicians is once again that the SNP is a sinister Borg-like organisation where independent thought is outlawed.
Bewilderingly, this evening Labour MSP Neil Findlay bitterly tweeted a complaint that all of the SNP’s elected members apparently agreed with his own position on bombing Syria, the vile swine that they are. (Presumably he’d prefer if some of them voted with the Tories just for the sake of it.) But he’s not alone.
A feat of memory 181
Posted on
December 01, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
This is the lead Politics story in morning’s Herald:
And, y’know, we’re fairly confident that’s true.
A tale of two situations 107
Posted on
November 30, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
To mark the day that we both appeared in the Herald’s “Power 100” list of “The leading Scots who shape our lives” – and she had another go at trolling us – we’d like to dedicate this wonderful tune sincerely to the popular children’s author JK Rowling:
We’ll try to understand her problems more sensitively in future.
Interesting Times 115
Posted on
November 30, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
From tonight’s Evening Times:
We’re not aware of a single elected Scottish Labour official previously expressing unequivocal public support for independence. Is this a small, self-interested one-off, or just the first cracking of the dam? We can only wait and see.
The monstrous detriment of women 265
Posted on
November 29, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We were considering having a day off today, readers. There’s absolutely nothing of any note happening in Scottish politics, and the papers have been reduced to scraping up all manner of barely-reheated leftover dregs to fill their pages.
But then someone drew our attention to something in Scotland On Sunday about the ongoing Women For Independence fiasco, and we were too annoyed to let it lie.
The go-to guy 221
Posted on
November 27, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
For reasons which defy all known science, John McTernan remains the first number on the BBC’s speed-dial list when they need a commentator to represent Labour views. It’s a remarkable editorial decision, given that McTernan despises the party’s current leadership almost beyond words, and it doesn’t seem too fond of him either.
But on today’s Good Morning Scotland, McTernan really kicked it up a notch.
A grand bonanza 113
Posted on
November 26, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
At today’s First Minister’s Questions, the Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale oddly chose to spend her entire allotted time not on any current issues affecting Scotland, but on attacking the SNP’s 2013 White Paper on independence, seemingly unaware that the referendum was held 14 months ago and resulted in a win for the No side.
Happily for Scotland, that decision resulted in a huge £200bn oil bonanza.
Hang on, let’s just double-check that to be sure.
Daily Record Maths For Beginners 364
Posted on
November 25, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We tweeted this yesterday:
Increasingly, the line between satire of the Scottish media and reality is non-existent.
The missing story 247
Posted on
November 23, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The Daily Record has this on its front page today.
And that’s fine. The tale of a five-figure sum of money which might (or might not) have gone missing from the accounts of Women For Independence, who’ve promptly called the police to investigate an apparent discrepancy between their donated income and their expenditure, is entirely legitimate news.
But we couldn’t help wondering something.
Then and now, part 99 190
Posted on
November 23, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
