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.
Archive for the ‘wtf’
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.
Woman buys thing with own money 259
Posted on
March 24, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Is there a doctor in the house? 266
Posted on
March 21, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Our dear old pal Blair McDougall tweeted this at a minute past midnight today:
Maybe someone can explain it to us.
The Huffing Post 242
Posted on
March 13, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Is there no end to this separatist evil? 86
Posted on
March 10, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The Financial Times has a gardening section. No, really, it does.
We have not made that quote up. (Gigha, incidentally, was in fact bought out by the community in 2002, over five years before the SNP came to power.)
