Moodievision: Flatliners 72
Posted on
July 01, 2015 by
Greg Moodie
Archive for the ‘scottish politics’
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
In your media today 390
Posted on
June 24, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We’ve noted on more than one occasion that the spectacular SNP surge since the referendum appears to have completely unhinged much of the Scottish and UK press. Having pumped out a vast avalanche of hysterical coverage which utterly failed to stop the Scottish electorate returning 56 SNPs out of 59, the papers have responded to the rebuff by simply turning the volume up.
But even by those standards, today has been special.
One question answered 183
Posted on
June 23, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We’ve been keeping an eye out for something for a while now.
And today we found out.
The truth about CalMac (short version) 162
Posted on
June 22, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The Mirror, the Daily Record and Scottish Labour are currently working themselves up into a shrieking froth about the SNP’s supposed plans to “privatise” the Caledonian MacBrayne ferry services to the Western Isles, which are due to be put out to tender again for the first time since the SNP took control of Holyrood in 2007.
It’s just possible there may be some hypocrisy on show.
