Friendly Help For Jeremy 110
Posted on
July 21, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The second-class licence fee 301
Posted on
July 19, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Today the BBC finally officially revealed what everyone already knew.
So now Scottish viewers definitely know where we stand.
The proof of the pudden 125
Posted on
July 18, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Here’s Kezia Dugdale in the Daily Record today:
If only there was somewhere that Labour DID already run the NHS so that we could judge the truth of that claim, eh readers?
The Victim 452
Posted on
July 16, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Deep in the summer news desert, the papers today are struggling for material again. The Sunday Herald has a shock-horror front-page exposé about some photos from an Orange Lodge party that turn out to be from 2010 and 2013, while the Scottish Mail On Sunday reaches all the way back to 1940 to fill a couple of pages.
But the Sunday Mail’s timing is even weirder.
Glass house heavily stoned 117
Posted on
July 14, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
And no, we’re not talking about Ruth Davidson living it up at Fingers Piano Bar. Kezia Dugdale tweeted this today:
Which would be a little bit like us gloating that Andy Murray was rubbish at tennis on the grounds that he was knocked out of Wimbledon this week.
Mundell’s Law 75
Posted on
July 14, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We already knew what David Mundell’s guarantees were worth, of course. So it’s not like we can exactly feign surprise at this.
The best we can say is that at least this time it took four months for the Secretary Of State’s promise to completely and utterly collapse, not 48 hours.
Good news is no news 97
Posted on
July 13, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
In a month of positive statistics for Scotland – including unexpectedly high economic growth figures, continuing to lead the UK and hitting its own tough targets for hospital waiting times (which drew an incredibly petty and insulting response from Scottish Labour), and huge progress in rail punctuality (now also the best anywhere in the country) – perhaps the most welcome of all was the release yesterday of the lowest unemployment figures for quarter of a century.
(Again the best in the UK, and in fact the best in Scotland of all time, since separate Scottish records only started to be kept in 1992.)
The Scotsman commendably gave the glad tidings top billing on its front page.
But despite it being slow news season, the rest of the media was a little less excited.
To last throughout the years 319
Posted on
July 12, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We’re not often genuinely shocked, readers.
But then we switched on BBC1 Northern Ireland today.
Towers of hate 159
Posted on
July 12, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
It’s a sleepy Wednesday in July, so let’s celebrate some proud British culture!
The problem of memory 135
Posted on
July 11, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
So this is a thing that happened yesterday:
Because, as ever, Scottish Labour are absolutely certain that voters are morons.
Lies spring eternal 502
Posted on
July 08, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
“Colonel” Ruth Davidson took time out from her holidays yesterday to unleash an extraordinary (and unusually defensive) 35-part Twitter tirade about the reaction to her appointment as an honorary military commander. So barren is the summer political news desert that two newspapers put it on their front page today, giving the BBC an excuse to deem it the day’s biggest story.
But that wasn’t the bit that caught our eye.
