Here’s to you, Mr Robinson 357
Posted on
September 28, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
It’s always interesting to make the news.
But the BBC man seems a little confused.
The papier-mache press 108
Posted on
September 28, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
As readers who were once children will probably recall, papier-mache is a substance in which incredibly flimsy material – such as tissue paper or newspaper – is turned into something rather more hard and durable by dint of combining multiple layers of it with a simple flour-and-water solution.
What’s less well-known is that the process also happens IN newspapers.
For a case study, let’s look at this article in today’s Times.
Nothing like the truth 178
Posted on
September 27, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The Scottish Daily Mail almost explodes with fury over new crime statistics today:
Which is weird. Because there’s less crime in Scotland than there’s ever been at any time in modern history. How do we know that? Because the Mail tells us so.
From March to September 48
Posted on
September 27, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
It’s embarrassing to even have to point it out, to be honest.
Yet just six months later, with nothing having changed, everything had changed:
But when it comes to Unionist politics in Scotland, embarrassment is the default state.
The Cunning(hame) Plan 238
Posted on
September 26, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We stuck this short clip up on YouTube yesterday as a throwaway while watching the Labour conference in slack-jawed astonishment (a visitor from an alien planet would have concluded it was the gathering of a party that had just won a landslide victory, not lost its third general election in a row), but on reflection it deserves a proper post.
If you know anything at all about the story of how female Glasgow City Council employees have fought for equal pay, you’ll probably be as outraged as we are at Baxter’s bulletproof brass neck. But the video actually demonstrates what appears to be Scottish Labour’s master strategy for winning back Scotland.
Super sigh me 125
Posted on
September 25, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
In today’s Herald, for no apparent particular reason, this drivel again:
And who might this latest impartial “expert” be, we wonder?
The government in waiting 188
Posted on
September 25, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Labour will start their autumn conference in Brighton properly today, but the comrades have already been at the seaside over the weekend. We thought we’d see how the UK’s official alternative to the Tories was getting along.
We’re sure it’s a well-oiled machine.
All the alarms and no surprises 288
Posted on
September 24, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
This weekend’s Scottish Mail On Sunday carries a column from UK Cabinet Office minister Damian Green which, if anyone was still in any doubt, rings just about every warning bell imaginable in terms of the Tories’ plan to use Brexit to cripple devolution both in principle and in practice.
It’s tucked away on page 27 and doesn’t appear on the Mail’s website, but you can read the whole thing by clicking the pic above. And below, we’ve pulled out the key sentences that should have the blood of devolution-loving No voters running cold.
Ole Ola 235
Posted on
September 23, 2017 by
Chris Cairns
(Buy Chris Cairns’ second great book of cartoons here. Plus cuddly Hamish!)
Looking forwards 229
Posted on
September 22, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We’re not saying it’s been a slow news week in Scottish politics, but this is what the Scotsman’s going with today:
We might go for a walk.
The Evergreens 415
Posted on
September 20, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
It was nice to see an old friend back in the Scottish media today.
How times change.
Nice Parliament you’ve got there 88
Posted on
September 20, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Be a shame if anything happened to it.
