More Bad News 96
Posted on
August 12, 2017 by
Chris Cairns
The magic money rigs 388
Posted on
August 10, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
A reader sent us an interesting snippet of information today.
That seemed a startling fact, so we looked into it. And it’s true.
The Vanishings 133
Posted on
August 09, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The Scottish media this week has started to rather resemble Argentina under General Galtieri’s military junta – everywhere you look are the ghosts of the disappeared.
We’ve already documented at length the sudden non-existence of the Herald’s madly inaccurate front-page lead story from Monday (along with the corresponding piece in the Evening Times). And today two more things joined the missing list.
Forever bad 103
Posted on
August 09, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Here’s Daniel Sanderson in the Times in January this year, complaining that too few university students come from poor backgrounds and therefore the SNP are bad:
So he’d be chuffed if that situation improved, right?
The King Of Irony World 261
Posted on
August 08, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
In case you don’t know, Alan Roden is the former Scottish Daily Mail politics editor who’s now Scottish Labour’s director of communications. We haven’t edited this pic in any way, those genuinely are two consecutive tweets he posted yesterday.
So this is almost too beautiful.
A series of coincidences 106
Posted on
August 07, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Earlier today we reported on the mysterious failure of the Herald to notice that its front page lead story about supposedly poor ScotRail punctuality figures made a number of serious errors with regard to the facts, most notably confusing the excellent figures for last month with a 12-month rolling average which was significantly worse.
But as we read the rest of the papers, we noticed the oddest thing.
Newspaper misses accuracy targets 95
Posted on
August 07, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
This is the front-page lead on today’s Herald.
Let’s fact-check that, shall we?
The ever-shifting goalposts 46
Posted on
August 07, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We’re back in the archives again today, because there’s still no news. (The Herald is desperately trying to whip up outrage over trains arriving 61 seconds late, and David Torrance has finally turned up at the “OMG YES MOVEMENT SPLIT” party just as the last stragglers are heading home and the hosts are going to bed.)
And we’re particularly enjoying this one, for a whole list of reasons:
Out come the freaks 282
Posted on
August 06, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
In the continuing summer absence of any sort of Scottish politics news (the Sunday papers consist of Michelle Thomson understandably taking a swipe at the SNP in the Sunday Post, the Sunday Times spluttering in impotent fury that Michelle Thomson wasn’t prosecuted, and the Sunday Herald giving a glowing write-up to idiot Tory MSP Annie Wells while savaging sections of the Yes movement yet again – this time “older white men”), we thought you might enjoy a piece from the archives.
Discovered by an alert reader, this 1976 Times article features Labour MP for Basildon Eric Moonman discussing the seemingly-imminent prospect of Scottish devolution, to which he was implacably opposed and instrumental in defeating, ultimately leading to the collapse of a Labour government and the election of Mrs Thatcher.
The Too Wee Club #4 166
Posted on
August 04, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
A series inspired by a Unionist blog insisting that “On a practical level, I do not believe for one moment that Scotland could thrive alone”, and which led to our thinking about some of the world’s other independent nations.
NO. 4 – SWITZERLAND
Switzerland has a problem, readers.
Those poor Swiss, eh?
All the way down 201
Posted on
August 03, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Today’s edition of The Times contains a textbook example of a phenomenon that we highlight regularly: how newspapers gradually unpick their own dishonest headlines to grudgingly admit a truth which is often the polar opposite of the initial claim.
Or as we more punchily tend to put it, “The Headline Is Always A Lie”.
This won’t take long.
