For the attention of the Director General 119
Posted on
August 02, 2018 by
The Rt. Hon. Alex Salmond
Archive for the ‘video’
The dirty baker’s dozen 425
Posted on
July 30, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
So this morning, four days after our entire YouTube channel was deleted at the behest of the BBC, and after days of wrestling with YouTube’s shambolic robot-staffed admin maze, we finally managed to get an email out of them with the full list of what the BBC had complained about.
(If you should ever find yourself in a similar situation, we can recommend contacting @TeamYouTube on Twitter, who appear to be actual human people and can eventually prod the robots into action.)
The signatory was a London-based BBC lawyer, who’d plucked 13 videos apparently at random from the hundreds on our channel and decided to whine about them (citing US copyright law, rather than UK) up to four and a half years later.
The state flexes its muscles 286
Posted on
July 28, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We happened to be looking at a couple of old articles this morning, and noticed that some of them had blank spaces where videos should be.
We didn’t think much of it at first, because people do sometimes delete old videos or shut down their accounts, but when we checked one of them we discovered it was hosted on the Wings Over Scotland channel.
Or rather, it USED to be, because our YouTube channel isn’t there any more.
There Will Be Adequate Food 137
Posted on
July 25, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We’ve just been leaked this short clip of a secret UK government exercise preparing for the week after Brexit.
We’re sure everything will be fine and no drastic measures will be required.
When circumstances change 190
Posted on
July 23, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
It’s probably overdue that we start collecting these together. So here’s Sir John Major on the Andrew Marr show yesterday, explaining why a “once in a lifetime” referendum should in fact be held again because its outcome was determined by something that turned out to be untrue.
Which is, of course, totally different to Scotland being told to vote No in 2014 in order to stay in the European Union, because [REASONS TO FOLLOW AT SOME POINT]
Stella Wants Her Groove Back 195
Posted on
July 22, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Labour MP Stella Creasy, explaining to Sarah Smith on today’s Sunday Politics why she backs a so-called “People’s Vote” on Brexit because voters should have the right to change their mind about a referendum if circumstances change.
Except, as always, for viewers in Scotland.
Back home 72
Posted on
July 11, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Scotia episode 2, because posting anything about the World Cup feels too mean.
