The warning notice 279
Posted on
September 19, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
For anyone who thinks it’s safe to wait until after 2021 for another indyref.
Archive for the ‘video’
What we stand to lose 209
Posted on
September 05, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
A Scot living in the EU, and an EU national living in Scotland, discuss the implications of the Brexit being forced on Scotland against its will by the UK government.
The clock is ticking.
The trouble with Corbyn 822
Posted on
August 14, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
(By the always-excellent Phantom Power Films.)
The bad losers 322
Posted on
August 02, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The BBC’s Reporting Scotland is, in our view, directly responsible for at least 80% of Yes supporters’ belief that the UK’s state broadcaster is biased against independence. Almost all of the worst examples of unbalanced or downright dishonest coverage over the last five years come from the flagship teatime bulletin.
But last night’s edition made even the most wearily cynical jaws drop.
Let’s just take that in for a moment.
Journey To Yes 219
Posted on
July 26, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The complete series so far. If you’ve got a story like this to tell, or you know anyone who does, Phantom Power want to hear from you – drop them a line.
To last throughout the years 319
Posted on
July 12, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We’re not often genuinely shocked, readers.
But then we switched on BBC1 Northern Ireland today.
A fundamental difference in approach 202
Posted on
June 21, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Richard Murphy, political economy professor.
The other side of the mountain 262
Posted on
June 13, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We’re going to take our own advice, chill out for a few days and enjoy the show as the No Surrender Tories desperately try to Frankenstein some sort of hilarious government together. There’s nothing much anyone can do to advance the cause of independence right now, there’s no urgent crisis in need of addressing, everybody’s pretty frazzled and crotchety, and a wee bit of downtime is probably the best thing for everyone.
It seems a better plan, at any rate, than running around panicking, screaming that SOMETHING MUST BE DONE IMMEDIATELY! or that nothing must be done ever again, that we must either declare UDI or give up on what many of us have believed in our whole lives and settle meekly for 2017’s feeble equivalent of The Vow – a shoddy, snivelling “soft Brexit” that’s not going to happen and would be awful even if it did.
Independence will still be here next week, folks. It’s not going anyplace. Obviously if anything dramatic should happen we’ll be on it, but otherwise we’ve got some movies and books and games and stuff to catch up on, and we recommend that you all do the same. Recharge your batteries. Smell the flowers. It’s been a long five years, frankly.
Think of the country first 143
Posted on
June 11, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Simon Pia, former Scottish Labour spin doctor.
The knife-edgers 526
Posted on
June 10, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
This was the revealing reaction of the Question Time audience and panel last night when right-wing Daily Mail/Times journalist Isabel Oakeshott and Labour peer Shami Chakrabarti debated who’d “won” the election:
On Thursday Jeremy Corbyn got 40% of the vote, 40% of the seats and lost by 2%.
In Scotland, Ruth Davidson got 28% of the vote, 22% of the seats and lost by 9%.
(Corbyn was also a thumping 33 points clear of the 3rd-place party in terms of vote share. Davidson’s margin over the party below was just 1.5 points.)
Yet the entire media, across both Scotland and the UK, has presented Davidson as the undisputed and triumphant victor, and nobody laughs.
