Moodievision: Alistair’s Lament 243
Posted on
June 03, 2015 by
Greg Moodie
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The awful truth 178
Posted on
May 31, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
This is Robert Hutton – UK political correspondent for Bloomberg News and author of the book “Would They Lie To You?” – and former Labour spin doctor Damien McBride on Radio 4 this morning, discussing the fate of Alistair Carmichael.
(The Week In Westminster, BBC Radio 4, 30 May 2015)
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That’s going to be an awkward lunch.
The brain of Britain 178
Posted on
May 31, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Michelle Mone, the titular head of a loss-making underwear company mostly owned by a shady Sri Lankan business group, who’s spent much of the last eight years trying to blackmail Scots by threatening to punish them with hundreds of job losses if they don’t vote the way she tells them to, has a 1400-word whine/house advert in the MoS today about how beastly cybernats have forced her to finally move to England.
Who wants to be the one to break it to her that they have Twitter in England too?
Playing tricks on memory 172
Posted on
May 30, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
In its kneejerk “SNP BAD” reaction to the Alistair Carmichael affair, the Unionist establishment – politicians and media alike – has furiously tried to divert attention from Carmichael’s smear and attempted cover-up by harking back to an incident in 2012, when the press gave vast amounts of coverage to a claim that Alex Salmond had “lied” about legal advice regarding an independent Scotland’s EU membership.
Everyone and their dog has trotted out the allegation again in the past week, right across the Unionist political spectrum – “Steerpike” in the Spectator did it, Alex Johnstone of the Scottish Conservatives did it, Tavish Scott of the Scottish Lib Dems did it, Michael White in the Guardian did it, Toby Young in the Spectator (again) did it, thirsty Labour peer George Foulkes did it, Telegraph columnist Iain Martin did it, failed Lib Dem anti-Salmond candidate Christine Jardine did it, and countless numbers of shrill Scottish Labour activists and party officials did it.
And all of them are counting on the Scottish public not remembering the truth.
Another question answered 110
Posted on
May 30, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
A dereliction of duty 233
Posted on
May 29, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
An alert reader today drew our attention to a detail we’d missed in a recent article in the Shetland News. It concerned Alistair Carmichael’s leaking of a false memo in order to smear Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP while the Orkney & Shetland MP was still Secretary of State for Scotland, and took the form of a quote from Carmichael’s Holyrood counterpart Tavish Scott, MSP for Shetland:
Two questions immediately leap to mind.
Power retained 147
Posted on
May 29, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Most of today’s papers quote an unnamed Scotland Office spokesman on the subject of the Scotland Bill 2015, and in particular its clauses concerning welfare powers:
We’ll let readers judge for themselves.
Hide the tiger 266
Posted on
May 28, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Earlier today we noted that the indyref had empowered the Scottish people to an extent that they seemed very reluctant to give up on. But plutocracies don’t become the establishment by giving up their thrones lightly, and so today we get this:
The above is a passage we selected completely at random from the Scotland Bill 2015, the administrative manifestation of “The Vow” and the Smith Commission. It’s entirely typical of the full 77-page document (PDF), which is essentially an unreadable wordspew completely impenetrable to normal people. And that’s no accident.
Something less than an answer 191
Posted on
May 27, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The current Scottish Secretary, David Mundell, on Politics Scotland earlier today:
“I was not convicted”, of course, isn’t quite the same thing as “I didn’t do it”.
Walking the dinosaur 167
Posted on
May 27, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Many of you won’t have seen this quite extraordinary performance from the Guardian’s assistant editor Michael White on last night’s Scotland Tonight, and you really should.
Pouring oil on troubled waters 254
Posted on
May 26, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
“Just go on the radio, play it all with a dead bat, fob them off with some bland waffle and kill the story”, the Lib Dems will have said to Sir Malcolm Bruce this morning.
