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What don’t we know? 91

Posted on July 07, 2015 by

We noticed this last night, and we checked this morning and it’s still there:

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That’s going to come as news to the people going to court tomorrow.

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The Clypegate Files 126

Posted on June 27, 2015 by

For those of you who haven’t seen it yet, the document at the heart of this insanity has been leaked, so you can now see it for yourself. We’ll have more on it later.

EDIT 12.55pm: File now deleted, mirror here.

Are you now or have you ever been? 260

Posted on June 26, 2015 by

No hiding place.

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The news is very confusing today 73

Posted on June 11, 2015 by

So first of all there’s this (click pic for full story):

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…in which the figures appear to show that Iceland’s policy of imposing justice and imprisoning the greedy bankers who caused the world financial crash – rather than just shovelling money at them and letting them carry on robbing everyone – actually saw its economy recover at least as well as anywhere else’s.

But then things get more complicated.

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Walking the dinosaur 167

Posted on May 27, 2015 by

Many of you won’t have seen this quite extraordinary performance from the Guardian’s assistant editor Michael White on last night’s Scotland Tonight, and you really should.

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The safety of the town 293

Posted on May 04, 2015 by

This morning we noted the weird double standards of the media when it comes to reporting politics-related violence (and/or the absence thereof) in Scotland. We weren’t expecting such a good illustration of it to come along within two hours.

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The spurned lover 191

Posted on April 29, 2015 by

Remember that lovely British solidarity you were told by Labour to vote No for?

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You probably need to read this, folks.

The wheels of time grind slowly 116

Posted on April 28, 2015 by

We’re sure we’re not the only people for whom the hours are dragging and we wish the election would just hurry up and get here, but all the same we’re pretty sure that if there were 11 days left to save the UK on Sunday morning, then by Tuesday morning there should be fewer than 10 still to go.

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Ironic juxtaposition 135

Posted on April 25, 2015 by

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Zoomers on stunned 317

Posted on April 20, 2015 by

If you thought the right-wing press was having paroxysms at the weekend, readers, you’re going to love what they had lined up for the day of the SNP manifesto launch.

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Let’s have a little tour of the London newsrooms, shall we?

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The sixth stage of grief 127

Posted on April 20, 2015 by

Our alert readers will probably be aware of the psychological phenomenon commonly known as the five stages of grief. If not, there’s a rather good piece by Andrew Nicoll in today’s Scottish Sun about it in the context of Scottish Labour.

But while perceptive, Nicoll is a little behind the times, because it appears that the party’s branch office manager Jim Murphy has invented a sixth.

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Welcome, viewers, to the new final stage of grief: delusion.

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The Untouchables 109

Posted on April 16, 2015 by

How long do you think the papers can keep pretending that all the other papers don’t exist, or that we don’t see any of them, folks?

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