Are you now or have you ever been? 260
Posted on
June 26, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Archive for the ‘wtf’
The news is very confusing today 73
Posted on
June 11, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
So first of all there’s this (click pic for full story):
…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.
Walking the dinosaur 167
Posted on
May 27, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
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.
The safety of the town 293
Posted on
May 04, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
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.
The spurned lover 191
Posted on
April 29, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Remember that lovely British solidarity you were told by Labour to vote No for?
You probably need to read this, folks.
The wheels of time grind slowly 116
Posted on
April 28, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
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.
Zoomers on stunned 317
Posted on
April 20, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
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.
Let’s have a little tour of the London newsrooms, shall we?
The sixth stage of grief 127
Posted on
April 20, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
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.
Welcome, viewers, to the new final stage of grief: delusion.
The Untouchables 109
Posted on
April 16, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
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?
Leesten varry caurfelly 245
Posted on
April 04, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
…we shall say zees only wance.
That clip (from just past midnight on the BBC News channel) isn’t a bad starting-point summary of last night’s extraordinary story, except by our count the Telegraph’s piece was fourth-hand rather than third-hand.
(First-hand would have been Nicola Sturgeon. Second-hand would have been the ambassador. Third-hand would have been the consul-general. The civil servant – who doubted the story him/herself – is fourth-hand.)
This is also a pretty good primer. Now let’s get to the fun stuff.
Marbles down 189
Posted on
April 03, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Sheesh. We pop out for a couple of hours to feed the Wings Emergency Kitten and we get back to find that it’s the UK press that’s barfed up hairballs all over its front pages.
And the contradictory cross-vortex coverlines aren’t even the mad bit.
