Paddington sequel announced 193
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March 22, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Featuring Scotland’s own very special bear.
Wow, Tories. Just wow.
Archive for the ‘uk politics’
Buyer’s remorse 174
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March 22, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We thought you’d enjoy this clip from this morning’s Andrew Marr Show, readers. It came after a very sensible interview, in which Salmond had calmly and reasonably laid out the SNP’s view on events should there be a hung parliament this May with the former First Minister’s party holding the balance of power.
Tory minister Anna Soubry seems to be experiencing a degree of regret about having begged Scots to stay in the UK. The body language says as much as the words.
Is there a doctor in the house? 266
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March 21, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Our dear old pal Blair McDougall tweeted this at a minute past midnight today:
Maybe someone can explain it to us.
Something worth remembering 237
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March 19, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
From politics.co.uk this morning:
And here’s Ed Balls saying it, just so we’re sure:
Looks like we’ve slept in again 172
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March 19, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Sometimes the UK media is so soul-crushingly moronic, readers, that it’s hard to get out of bed in the morning. Nevertheless, we’re pretty sure we haven’t nodded off and woken up in 2017, so today’s papers must be even more idiotic than usual.
Cross-vortex perspectives 105
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March 17, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Editorial in today’s Scottish Sun:
The Scottish Sun is around 80% the same newspaper as the English edition (with the bulk of the difference being accounted for by football coverage) so presumably the south-of-the-border version has a broadly similar view, right?
The old hand 195
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March 17, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
If we’re honest, readers, we almost never bother with BBC Scotland’s televised political coverage any more. We suspect the viewing figures for Scotland 2015 are down to fingers-and-toes territory now, and if last night’s edition – which we gritted our teeth and watched after noting the incredulous response on social media – is anything to go by, the state broadcaster is now using it to try out work-experience kids.
But we can cut fresh-faced new boy David Henderson (who suffered the indignity of being billed as Sarah Smith) a bit of slack for being outmanoeuvred by an experienced operator like Jim Murphy, who at one point in the show was actually interrogating the presenter rather than the other way round.
Kirsty Wark, regular anchor on the Corporation’s current-affairs flagship Newsnight, on the other hand, has no such excuses whatsoever.
The squishy floor 146
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March 16, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Alert readers will have to decide for themselves whether bravado or sheer desperation is to blame, but Scottish Labour just can’t seem to stop themselves from lying to the people of Scotland about the formation of the next government.
Mindbogglingly, the party has just released a video in which Jim Murphy repeats the lie again, and in today’s Daily Record its Ayrshire candidate Sandra Osborne openly admits that “We are talking to people on the doorstep explaining that whoever ends up the biggest party after the election will form the next government”, despite it having been proved beyond the tiniest shred of dispute that that’s simply not true.
Fortunately, reinforcements have arrived.
The lemon pledges 92
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March 15, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
A lot of people this week quoted a line supposedly from the former Labour cabinet minister Roy Jenkins, which runs “a statement is only interesting if a sane man could say the opposite”. We haven’t been able to verify if he ever really said that or not, but it doesn’t really matter, because it’s true either way.
So where that leaves this mess is anyone’s guess.
What Ed Balls didn’t say 124
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March 15, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
If you ask them on social media, Labour MPs and activists will all hotly deny that the party signed up to the Conservatives’ plan for £30bn of austerity cuts in the next five years. It’ll be interesting to see whether they try to continue doing so in the light of Ed Balls’ appearance on the Andrew Marr Show this morning.
The missing monkeys 163
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March 14, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Alert readers will have noticed that this week we’ve been fascinated by the differences between the mostly-identical Scottish and English editions of The Sun. For example, the editorial below from today’s English edition doesn’t make it across the border.
But that’s not the most interesting discrepancy.
