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In case you’ve been napping 341

Posted on May 22, 2015 by

…or, like us, out buying Eurovision party snacks:

carmichaelgate

This is a non-trivial matter. The (at the time) Secretary of State for Scotland seems to have just admitted deliberately and knowingly undermining the democratically-elected First Minister. The report may have been sneakily published on the eve of a Bank Holiday weekend, but we suspect this one won’t have gone away by Tuesday.

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Moodievision: The Queen And I 155

Posted on May 20, 2015 by

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We’ve lost track again 318

Posted on May 19, 2015 by

So cutting Corporation Tax is back to being a good left-wing thing, yes?

coopertax

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Moodievision: The Fall And Fall… 150

Posted on May 13, 2015 by

…Of Ed Miliband.

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The lockout 511

Posted on May 12, 2015 by

There was an interesting line in The National yesterday:

“The monthly Scottish Questions in Parliament looks set to be an odd affair.

Under the current system the Secretary of State for Scotland will answer six questions from the Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland, while 56 SNP MPs watch on from the back benches and are allowed to ask one question.”

In other words, business as usual.

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The polls were not wrong 312

Posted on May 09, 2015 by

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:

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.

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A cat amongst the pigeons 132

Posted on May 09, 2015 by

hamishpigeons

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Seeing it coming a mile off 125

Posted on May 08, 2015 by

The media might be shocked. But readers of Wings aren’t.

edpm1

Because there’s simply no excuse for anyone acting surprised.

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The something and nothing election 274

Posted on May 08, 2015 by

We’ll start with the “something”.

scotlandmaps

And that really is quite something.

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Stronger for Scotland 1,718

Posted on May 07, 2015 by

stronger

It’s time for a change.

Let’s be it.

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Popularity contest – results in 399

Posted on May 05, 2015 by

Children’s author, billionaire and Labour donor JK Rowling, last year:

jkrpwling

You feeling that popularity yet, readers?

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The desperate hours 457

Posted on May 03, 2015 by

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”.

sadbroon

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.

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