Just your imagination 396
Posted on
September 28, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
From a ridiculous piece by Hadley Freeman in today’s Guardian:
Actually, we’re pretty sure it isn’t and we can.
Archive for the ‘world’
The squandered bounty 434
Posted on
September 22, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
It’s long been a bone of contention for Scots – and not just nationalists – that the UK government, by common agreement, wasted the vast wealth windfall of the North Sea on funding Margaret Thatcher’s 1980s programme of deliberate de-industrialisation, mass unemployment, huge tax cuts for the wealthy and bribes to the working class in the form of Right To Buy.
It did so rather than investing the proceeds in a sovereign wealth fund, as demanded by the SNP (and some elements of Labour) and practiced in Norway, whose fund – only set up in 1990 – is now a literal embarrassment of riches.
But the reality is even worse than that. Because according to a 2015 report by the National Resource Governance Institute that’s just come to our attention, the truth is that if the UK had managed its North Sea treasure better, it could have done both.
Congratulations to President Trump 84
Posted on
July 24, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The Chilcot Report in full 207
Posted on
July 06, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The short version is “Everything Tony Blair said was a lie”. The full report can be read in 58 sections at the inquiry’s website here, but in the quite likely event that it gets swamped today we’ve uploaded the entire thing as a single convenient RAR file here.
[EDIT: individual sections now compiled into the print version’s 12 volumes.]
The rest of your life as a champion 126
Posted on
June 04, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Today we’re a boxing site, and that’s all there is to it.
First off the mark 186
Posted on
March 22, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Brussels terror atrocity = SNP BAD.
Chris Deerin, Iain Martin, Alan Cochrane and Ian Smart will be hopping mad.
Better Together 1776 139
Posted on
March 10, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
It turns out Scotland isn’t the first country to be too wee, too poor and too stupid for independence from the mighty and benificent United Kingdom.
Future Shocks 88
Posted on
February 27, 2016 by
Chris Cairns
Order “Welcome To Cairnstoon”, Chris’ compilation of Wings cartoons and more, here.
Some brief thoughts on Donald Trump 285
Posted on
February 25, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Put your hands on your hearts, readers, and tell us that in the event of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin leading the USA and Russia a year or so from now, you can’t see this actually literally happening. [EDIT: The fight, not nuclear apocalypse. Obviously.]
Look us straight in the eye and tell us there’s a 0% chance.
You can’t, can you?
We live in interesting times.
