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.
Jay on A Personal Best For Kezia: “G.P., I think it is something heading in the direction of self-destructive compulsion. I detect nothing of public school or…” Nov 27, 22:51
Campbell Clansman on A Personal Best For Kezia: ““ISP, Alba, Peter Bell’s outfit should join forces” Add Alba’s 1% to the ISP handful, plus Peter Bell, and you…” Nov 27, 22:34
Robert Matthews on A Personal Best For Kezia: “Maybe all these smaller parties ISP,Alba,Peter Bells outfit should join forces and stand under one name. National Front sounds like…” Nov 27, 22:25
gregor on A Personal Best For Kezia: “The Waterboys: Room To Roam: Bigger Picture: “I’m starting to see a bigger picture I’m beginning to colour it in…” Nov 27, 22:17
znovak on A Personal Best For Kezia: “Glad to hear that, but what else can one think when even mild and well-reasoned criticism of R’s invasion is…” Nov 27, 21:44
Mac on A Personal Best For Kezia: “I am sure you do. I work for truth, as best I see it. I find it ‘pays’ the best.” Nov 27, 21:26
Mark Beggan on A Personal Best For Kezia: “Correction, That should have been The Royal 5th Missile Division.” Nov 27, 21:21
Sven on A Personal Best For Kezia: “Maybe me justoverthinking things in my cynical way, RoS, however I’d not be surprised if the big picture behind our…” Nov 27, 21:20
Mark Beggan on A Personal Best For Kezia: “Captain Starmer heads the 5th Missile Division in a two pronged attack on Minsk. The other prong being that of…” Nov 27, 21:07
dandydons1903 on A Personal Best For Kezia: “The Labour Partei are in cahoots with Blackrock and Larry Fink or more likely Blackrock/Larry Fink own Starmer and Co’s…” Nov 27, 20:59
Republicofscotland on A Personal Best For Kezia: “Its interesting to note – that England has sent its entire compliment of Storm Shadow missiles to YOU – all…” Nov 27, 20:26
Republicofscotland on A Personal Best For Kezia: “Not just the evil dictatorship in Eastern Europe – but Starmer, is also funding the other evil regime in the…” Nov 27, 20:05
gregor on A Personal Best For Kezia: “While this unprecedented clown stokes the flames… “On his way out of the White House, President Biden is reportedly making…” Nov 27, 20:04
Hatey McHateface on A Personal Best For Kezia: “What you haven’t stopped to consider, Mac, is what the hit to UK public services will be when R tanks…” Nov 27, 19:58
Republicofscotland on A Personal Best For Kezia: “Craig Murray is actually in Beirut right this very minute – and the evil regime in the Levant is still…” Nov 27, 19:58
Hatey McHateface on A Personal Best For Kezia: ““Why on earth would any nation ever want to be independent, eh? Stupid idea!” Ah ken fit ye mean, Michael.…” Nov 27, 19:37
znovak on A Personal Best For Kezia: “Mac, if you do not already work for one of those R troll factories, you should seriously think about it.…” Nov 27, 19:26
Mac on A Personal Best For Kezia: “Starmer has committed 3 billion a year to Ukr@ine in perpetuity meaning every year forevermore. That is three times the…” Nov 27, 19:26
gregor on Telling the truth by mistake: “Elon Musk: “Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis of all morality.” – Dune https://tinyurl.com/4kdn6a9m” Nov 27, 19:21
Campbell Clansman on A Personal Best For Kezia: “Getting back to the real world, anyone want to wager that Unionist parties don’t get at least 66% of the…” Nov 27, 19:08
Campbell Clansman on A Personal Best For Kezia: “Good to see moonhowlers admit they don’t care about truth or accuracy. And that it doesn’t matter to them that…” Nov 27, 19:02
Derek on A Personal Best For Kezia: “Counterpoint: if Kez agrees with you, it’s probably time to rethink your position.” Nov 27, 18:39
Michael Laing on A Personal Best For Kezia: “Keep going, chief! You’re nearly there. I’m sure it’ll only take a few more of your nit-picking comments criticising people’s…” Nov 27, 18:36
Hatey McHateface on A Personal Best For Kezia: “Ah ken fit ye mean, twathater. I took a moral stand against arsewipes once, cut them right out of my…” Nov 27, 18:33
Hatey McHateface on A Personal Best For Kezia: “I prefer dry roast myself. You come across on here as someone who believes that defending yourself against an aggressive…” Nov 27, 18:20
twathater on A Personal Best For Kezia: ““Where have the political giants and heavyweights of my youth gone? THAT right there exemplifies your stupidity, political giants HaHaHaHa…” Nov 27, 17:59
Hatey McHateface on A Personal Best For Kezia: “Letting fly on your post now, Dan. Goodness, I do raise quite a cloud of steam in this cold weather…” Nov 27, 17:51
Jon Drummond on A Personal Best For Kezia: “Get yer tongue out of Sturgeon and Swinney’s books.” Nov 27, 17:49
