Future Shocks 88
Posted on
February 27, 2016 by
Chris Cairns
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Archive for the ‘world’
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.
A kind of goldrush 202
Posted on
February 01, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
An alert reader directed us to an article on finance site Bloomberg today:
It’s interesting to see a business and bankers’ perspective on something that we’ve already pointed out a number of times on Wings, namely that the lower oil price has at least as many upsides as downsides.
Old soak dribbles 131
Posted on
December 15, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
I know he’s a figure of comedy and pity, but this is something else.
Someone glue the cork in the bottle, eh? For his own good.
Cultivating terror 63
Posted on
December 05, 2015 by
Chris Cairns
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Seventeen days later 411
Posted on
December 03, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
This is Labour’s shadow Foreign Secretary Hilary Benn, quoted in the Independent On Sunday on the 15th of November, just two and a half weeks ago.
That’s interesting, isn’t it?
Britain goes to war 339
Posted on
December 02, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Tonight we watched as the conclusion of a “debate” in the UK Parliament saw the “opposition”, almost unprecedentedly, sum up the same case as the government, to roof-raising cheers and applause (which is now apparently permitted again) from the Conservative benches for a Labour shadow minister.
We were rather put in mind of a famous Neil Kinnock speech from 1985.
Doing something 193
Posted on
December 02, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Alex Salmond in the Syria debate with the non-pacifist case against bombing.
(Features brief cameo appearance from Alberto Costa MP, noted twat.)
The silence of the bams 163
Posted on
December 02, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
It’s never usually terribly difficult to get a Scottish Labour MSP to express a view on anything. It’s hard to open a newspaper without being forced to hear Jackie Baillie or James Kelly’s opinion on something or other.
(Admittedly it’s generally the SNP, and the opinion is invariably that they’re bad and whatever they do is wrong – but still, they’re not shy about coming forward with it.)
So when Neil Findlay attacked the SNP for all having the same view on bombing Syria last night (about which he was inexplicably furious, even though that view was exactly the same as his own opinion), we thought it’d be easy enough to find out how many of his MSP colleagues were on the respective sides of the debate.
It turned out that we were wrong.
Poking the bear 328
Posted on
November 28, 2015 by
Chris Cairns
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Down memory lane 347
Posted on
November 24, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Ah, the good old days.
Obviously, actually including the exact phrases “within 45 minutes” and “weapons of mass destruction” might have been a little bit too near the knuckle, but the message comes across just the same: “Here we go again.”
