EVEL Knievel 75
Posted on
July 04, 2015 by
Chris Cairns
Archive for the ‘scottish politics’
Stop or we’ll say stop again 224
Posted on
July 03, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We’ll never tire of documenting the Daily Record’s increasingly panicked attempts to get David Cameron to enact the Record’s dodgy promise of last September and save it from having to answer for the pup it sold Scotland.
The member for The Vow 211
Posted on
July 02, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The Sunday Post’s lobby reporter James Millar noticed today that all the parties have submitted their nominations to sit on the Scottish Affairs Committee at Westminster.
As has already been noted, the majority of the committee – seven from 11 – are MPs for English seats (list below). But one name in particular caught our attention.
Why is this okay again? 228
Posted on
July 01, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Two nights of political debate on the BBC:
Six unionists, two nationalists. What’s that all about, then?
Equal Partnership For Dummies 144
Posted on
July 01, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
How the UK’s constitution now works, in brief:
– English votes for English laws
– English votes for Scottish laws
– No Scottish votes for English laws
Any questions?
Greece isn’t the word 216
Posted on
June 30, 2015 by
Douglas Daniel
In today’s Scotsman, Peter Jones makes the case for why an independent Scotland would have been plunged into the same crisis currently affecting Greece (and making the case along the way for why George Osborne’s austerity is inevitable and we should just shut up and accept it).
He insists strenuously throughout the article that he’s doing no such thing and is simply highlighting the flaws in the idea of a currency union between Scotland and the rUK, but to anybody who actually reads the article, it’s patently obvious that that’s exactly what he’s doing.
The fast-moving world of news 283
Posted on
June 29, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Here’s the Times (Scotland edition) last Wednesday:
A lot has happened since then, of course.
Clypegate, in numbers and pictures 239
Posted on
June 27, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
By now you should all have had a chance to marvel at the extraordinary madness that is Scottish Labour’s 51-page suicide note of SNP members who’ve said rude words on the internet since 2012.
You may even have had time to read a data protection expert (and Labour voter)’s assessment of all the ways in which the dossier breaks the law.
Now let’s get down to business.
Money-where-your-mouth-is time 140
Posted on
June 26, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
STV’s notorious quisling correspondent Stephen “Stevo” Daisley has an interesting piece today about the latest manufactured “cybernat” shock-horror outrage being punted by the Daily Mail (although curiously, the major “CYBERNAT WEB OF HATE!” exposé they promised readers would be published on Thursday is yet to materialise).
Daisley’s column makes some valid points about how the SNP could distance itself from the most extremist elements of its online support, but with one important flaw – it overlooks a crucial factor driving internet rage, and as a result its recommendations would only actually make the situation worse.
But fear not, gentle and sensitive reader. Conveniently, there’s an easy solution.
Truth is fleeting, lies persist 110
Posted on
June 26, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
On Wednesday we highlighted a curious outbreak of mass hysteria in the Scottish press, when a whole clutch of its newspapers suddenly and inexplicably jumped on a six-month-old story that had been comprehensively debunked at the time and hadn’t become any more true.
The story was swiftly proven to be complete rubbish all over again, and some of the papers printed grudging and much less prominent pieces admitting it was nonsense (all gallantly blaming their source, some Buckingham Palace flunky gone rogue, rather than their own failure to check the facts).
And then things got weird.
Good luck, remaining Labour voters 220
Posted on
June 25, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
