Sky News had a breaking report tonight about a person they couldn’t name.
Was it The Woman Whose Name You Can’t Say? We couldn’t tell you even if we knew, readers. And we can’t tell you whether we do or not. Sky carefully avoided even saying what sex the person was, and you’d have to be quite an alert viewer to notice any of the hints they dropped in the piece. We’ve said enough. You’re on your own now.
As ever, please do not commit contempt of court in the comments.
Ridiculously, more than eight hours after voting closed in an all-electronic election in which “counting” should have taken a maximum of one second, and at 11.30pm, the SNP have released the results of this year’s NEC elections.
There are some big stories.
Alyn Smith is OUT as Policy Development Convener, replaced by Chris Hanlon.
In a post last month we referenced a ZX Spectrum computer game from 1984 called “Worse Things Happen At Sea”. Today as we watched the First Minister on the Andrew Marr Show, we were put in mind of another nautical-disaster-themed one from a great deal nearer to the end of the Speccy’s life.
We were going to write a post about today’s Sunday National front page lead story, but it would just have been an angry rant, so instead we’ll let our readers make their own judgements on how convinced they are by this bloviating guff:
We’re grumpy this morning, readers, because it’s Sunday and we were planning a long lie and then someone told us about this. It’s the First Minister appearing on the Sophy Ridge show on Sky News at around 8.45am and you need to see it.
During a debate on the UK government’s recent decision to abandon the notion of gender self-ID, SNP MP Anne McLaughlin told the Commons chamber that it was still the Scottish Government’s “strong commitment” to go ahead with highly controversial reform of the law BEFORE next year’s Holyrood election.
But that isn’t what Scottish voters were told earlier this year.
We were looking for something else this afternoon, but accidentally found this:
Just two weeks before the last Holyrood election, widely-respected analysts Weber Shandwick had put together a prediction of how the results would pan out. Just for a bit of fun, let’s compare it to the reality.
Dan on Too Tight To Mention: “Lolz at waking up to another groundhog day with Andy accusing and complaining of others mischaracterising folk when for years…” Jul 6, 09:24
Hatey McHateface on The Con Merchant: “This is quite the corner of concentrated wit and wisdom. The fat winker, the passed over for promotion, closet lurking,…” Jul 6, 09:10
Andy Ellis on Too Tight To Mention: “Sarah, you’ve been banging on about the petition for months now. This – as we’re often reminded – the most…” Jul 6, 08:58
Hatey McHateface on Too Tight To Mention: “Dial 999. Paramedic needed. Suspected overdose of castoreum ” Jul 6, 08:53
Andy Ellis on Too Tight To Mention: “You seem to have a real bee in your bonnet about Stu’s lack of support for “cunning plans for indy”.…” Jul 6, 08:45
Andy Ellis on The Con Merchant: “Glandular…uh huh? That right…? Does that account for the tourette’s as well?” Jul 6, 08:32
twathater on Too Tight To Mention: “Sara thanks for that link to the parliamentary petition, unfortunately it is coming back as server not found And Sarah…” Jul 6, 03:05
twathater on Too Tight To Mention: “Just like your fellow unionists, TOO stupid to realise that you are in the same lunatic asylum as the rest…” Jul 6, 02:59
twathater on Too Tight To Mention: “Thanks for that link Dan, apparently there are things happening in Scotland that may be relevant to independence supporters or…” Jul 6, 02:49
Young Lochinvar on Too Tight To Mention: “Very well said Ian! From apparently halcyon days they are now an incompetent “progressive” (in its worst sense) boil that…” Jul 6, 02:09
Young Lochinvar on Too Tight To Mention: “I an energy rich country like Scotland,that is surely the most preposterous thing to say.. To look at it another…” Jul 6, 02:03
Andy Ellis on Too Tight To Mention: “@Alf So if (when?) the UN refuses to recognise cases like Scotland, Quebec and Catalonia as de-colonisation…..what then? Seems like…” Jul 5, 21:44
Aidan on Too Tight To Mention: “@Andy – all valid points, but the thing that chopped it off at the knees is that the UNCDC has…” Jul 5, 21:13
Alf Baird on Too Tight To Mention: “Nobody said independence is easy, but it helps if you know what the word means. It means decolonization, according to…” Jul 5, 21:06
Andy Ellis on Too Tight To Mention: “@anthem 7.06pm I’m not the one on the losing side of the reference to the UN colonisation committee bud, so…” Jul 5, 20:56
Young Lochinvar on The Con Merchant: “Captain Caveman @ 6.48 Nope, wrong yet again r3tard.. Own your own crap, you have after all spouted it all…” Jul 5, 20:54
Andy Ellis on Too Tight To Mention: “@aidan 7.16pm Yes, I’m aware. Not unexpected. I never had any expectations the UN would accept that those making the…” Jul 5, 20:53
Anthem on Too Tight To Mention: “Sarah. This is the type of thing that should leafleted through every door in in Scotland! The SNP should be…” Jul 5, 20:39
Dan on Too Tight To Mention: “Stuff going on in Scotland… With a familiar name popping up again… https://www.isp.scot/june-28th-july-4th-2025/” Jul 5, 20:33
Aidan on Too Tight To Mention: “@Andy – you might have missed that the Salvo petition has gone to the UN decolonisation committee, back in June.…” Jul 5, 19:16
Anthem on Too Tight To Mention: ““Far from indicating duplicity an bias, it simply indicates that not all of us are easily led by charlatans and…” Jul 5, 19:06
Captain Caveman on The Con Merchant: “Clingfilm…. Estrogen…. School toilets…. Sheesh. An awful lot of wishful thinking going on here… joining the dots etc. maybe Hatey’s…” Jul 5, 18:48
Ste fella on Too Tight To Mention: “Published on scotgoespop 18:33 050725 “I’ll bet you £20 James that SNP get zero list seats. Your sooky return to…” Jul 5, 18:33
Dan on Too Tight To Mention: “Andy Ellis says: at 4:57 pm “Surely the onus is on those who agree with something to make their case,…” Jul 5, 18:32
Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh on The Con Merchant: “Further to my previous comment, I have often thought that nothing unites the establishments of North and South Ireland more…” Jul 5, 18:22
agent x on Too Tight To Mention: “You must have missed Alf’s comment that in Scotland “half the population living in or close to poverty”. You expect…” Jul 5, 18:09
TURABDIN on Too Tight To Mention: “ERSKINE CHILDERS, A GREAT irish Nationalist who died in the gun sights of an Irish firing squad.” Jul 5, 18:04