Moodievision: The Queen And I 155
Posted on
May 20, 2015 by
Greg Moodie
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We’ve lost track again 318
Posted on
May 19, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
So cutting Corporation Tax is back to being a good left-wing thing, yes?
Moodievision: The Fall And Fall… 150
Posted on
May 13, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
…Of Ed Miliband.
The lockout 511
Posted on
May 12, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
There was an interesting line in The National yesterday:
“The monthly Scottish Questions in Parliament looks set to be an odd affair.
In other words, business as usual.
The polls were not wrong 312
Posted on
May 09, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Much of the commentariat and media has been in a froth for the last 24 hours about the supposed failure of the nation’s pollsters to predict the Conservative victory. This, for example, was Labour’s highly-paid election guru David Axelrod:
But the truth is that the polls – just like the heavily-maligned exit poll which turned out to be bang on the money – got nothing wrong. The people interpreting them did.
Seeing it coming a mile off 125
Posted on
May 08, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The media might be shocked. But readers of Wings aren’t.
Because there’s simply no excuse for anyone acting surprised.
The something and nothing election 274
Posted on
May 08, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Stronger for Scotland 1,718
Posted on
May 07, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
It’s time for a change.
Let’s be it.
Popularity contest – results in 399
Posted on
May 05, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Children’s author, billionaire and Labour donor JK Rowling, last year:
You feeling that popularity yet, readers?
The desperate hours 457
Posted on
May 03, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The general election 2015 has rounded the last bend and is heading down the final straight, with no clear winner in sight. Four days from now the UK electorate will go to the polls and deliver, if the numbers are to be believed, an unholy mess. Only one part of the country seems to know with clarity what it wants, and that’s “not Labour”.
The North British branch of the party has in truth been a political Easter egg for years – big and impressive-looking on the outside, but entirely hollow within – and this year it looks like the voters are finally going to shatter the shell and leave nothing but a small heap of fragments revealing just how little chocolate was ever there.
And the realisation has sent Labour completely out of its mind.
Something changed 126
Posted on
May 02, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Scottish Labour’s chief of staff in February:
The same man tonight:
Does the biggest party form the government or doesn’t it, John?
