The end of a bad song 30
Posted on
December 31, 2017 by
Chris Cairns
Archive for the ‘uk politics’
Friendly neighbourhood rival fans 135
Posted on
December 28, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Not too many surprises here. (Except, perhaps, the 18% of respondents who claimed to be football fans yet also said they had no interest in the World Cup.)
Excluding the disinterested the numbers were:
England 24%
England’s opponents 38%
Others 40%
And for people actually born in Scotland the figures came out at
England 20%
England’s opponents 41%
Others 39%
And that’s pretty much the natural order of things. If you’re a “Rangers” fan and you cheer for Celtic when they play (let’s not say “compete”) in the Champions League, or a Celtic fan who backed “Rangers” in the Petrofac Training Cup, you’re the weirdo.
The zero-faced liars 57
Posted on
December 27, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
So this isn’t true, any more than it was when Labour first promised it 22 years ago.
But the sheer number of ways in which it’s a lie is quite the thing.
The not-so-nearly man 62
Posted on
December 27, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We were having an idle browse on Google Play Books this morning for some bargain holiday reading when we happened upon a startling new cover for Chris Mullin’s 1982 classic A Very British Coup.
We found ourselves thinking “rise to what, exactly?”
And as it happened, we had some new Panelbase polling data on that.
Alex Cole-Hamilton Fact Check 137
Posted on
December 24, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The prissy, easily-upset and extravagantly-funded Lib Dem MSP Alex Cole-Hamilton tweeted this this morning:
Now, we’re not sure “you’ve had the government you’ve voted for about half the time in a two-horse race” would be all that great a selling point in the first place, but shall we see if it’s actually true, readers?
Easy come, easy go 155
Posted on
December 09, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The compromise 95
Posted on
December 09, 2017 by
Chris Cairns
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(It’s nearly Christmas! Buy cartoon books for your friends, unless you’re a vile monster.)
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The faithful pet 390
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December 02, 2017 by
Chris Cairns
(It’s nearly Christmas! Buy a cuddly Hamish The Lion toy here! Plus maybe some cartoon books.)
One letter too many 141
Posted on
November 26, 2017 by
Chris Cairns
(It’s nearly Christmas! Buy a cuddly Hamish The Lion toy here! Plus maybe some cartoon books.)
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The Loser 211
Posted on
November 23, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We wouldn’t say that the Scottish Daily Mail was obsessed or anything, but this is just today’s hysterical coverage of possible changes to taxation in Scotland which haven’t even been PROPOSED yet, let alone actually passed into law.
A couple of bits caught our eye in particular.
A nation of hostages 268
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November 22, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The efforts by the Scottish Tories to pull off some frankly ambitious shenanigans over today’s Budget continued overnight in increasingly bizarre fashion.
As with the Poppy Scotland funding, the party appears to be quite openly punting the line “We knew all along that this was possible and the right thing to do, but we deliberately punished Scotland for not electing enough Tory MPs”, in what can only be reasonably interpreted as an attempt at blackmailing future electorates.
The Scottish media, meanwhile, is doing its best to sell the issue as “a plague on both their houses”, holding the Scottish Government and UK government equally culpable for the mess. So let’s see what we know.
On Her Majesty’s Broadcasting Service 188
Posted on
November 17, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We’ll be honest, readers – if this doesn’t make you want to leave the UK all by itself, it may be that there’s nothing that ever will and we should just give up.
(Alternative titles considered for this piece included Live And Please Let Die, Doctor Oh God No, The Barely-Living Daylights and Quantum Of Bollocks.)
