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Delivering for indy 44

Posted on November 02, 2016 by

Anyone who’s donated to this site’s fundraisers in the past will be familiar with the excellent work of AyeMail, the not-for-profit fulfilment company set up to help all sorts of pro-independence groups raise money by taking care of all the tedious admin and letting them get on with their campaigning.

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They’re also raising money themselves at the moment, both for their own costs and to produce a series of projects to help groups strapped for cash. They’ve got almost 60% of their target in the bag already, but with only a day to go they’re running around £5000 short of being able to do everything.

They provide a hugely valuable service and resource, producing tangible and practical benefits for the Yes movement – Wings would be utterly lost without them – and if you’ve got a couple of quid spare for the cause you couldn’t find a better use for it.

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Opposition For Cowards 201

Posted on November 01, 2016 by

Just over three and a half years ago, we ran an article about how being an opposition MP or MSP is the cushiest gig in politics. You get all the pay, benefits, holidays and status, but you don’t have to actually do very much except whinge about how rubbish the government is, which most people are happy to do for free as a hobby.

Most of the time you don’t even need to turn up at your workplace.

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(Sure, there are all your constituents to deal with, but if you’re not in power all that really amounts to is forwarding their letters to the government and demanding action.)

Tomorrow, the Holyrood opposition will give us a virtuoso demonstration.

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Category comment, football, scottish politics

The hungry gamekeepers 380

Posted on October 31, 2016 by

Old media and new media spoke with one voice in Scotland today:

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But for once it was the dead-tree press that held the moral high ground.

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Category comment, culture, football, scottish politics, stats

Writers of fiction 365

Posted on October 30, 2016 by

We were hugely excited earlier on today to receive news of a long-hoped-for team-up between two of our very favourite people on the internet: catastrophically thick Daily Express hack Siobhan McFadyen and popular lawsuit enthusiast JK Rowling.

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What we hadn’t expected was a starring role.

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Category debunks, disturbing, media

The results we’ve come to expect 176

Posted on October 30, 2016 by

Saturday 11.34am:

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Saturday 8.02pm:

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Wow, that’s fast. We can only assume she took John McTernan with her.

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Trick or treat 186

Posted on October 29, 2016 by

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Category comment, scottish politics, uk politics

The not-so-Specials 181

Posted on October 28, 2016 by

Hmm.

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Anyone missing?

Category europe, scottish politics

A matter of competence 809

Posted on October 25, 2016 by

Back in May we wrote this:

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The prediction duly came true, as most of ours do. Sometimes we hate being right.

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Category analysis, comment, scottish politics, video

Meet The Yoons, Part 2 130

Posted on October 25, 2016 by

A member of an MSP’s staff posted an image on Twitter this morning of a flyer that had apparently just been shoved through their office letter box:

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But after having a merry old chuckle at the layout, colour choice and language, we wondered what sort of person might produce such a thing. So, ably assisted as ever by a team of alert readers, we decided to see if we could find out.

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Category investigation, scottish politics

The stupidest thing ever said 109

Posted on October 25, 2016 by

We realise that there’s some stiff competition for that accolade, even if you restrict it solely to things said by Kezia Dugdale, but this needs preserving for posterity.

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A couple of questions do spring immediately to mind: (1) how does every country on Earth that isn’t Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland do it, and (2) given that Scotland has now been in the Union for 309 years, how much longer is it going to take before the two things are finally eradicated?

We look forward to hearing the answers from Labour any day now.

Category comment, idiots, scottish politics, wtf

Mathematician Of The Week 111

Posted on October 24, 2016 by

The former Chancellor of the Exchequer in today’s Press & Journal:

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55-45 is “far more decisive” than 62-38? We think we’re finally beginning to understand why the last Labour government left the British economy in such a mess.

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Category wtf

A reminder of the obvious 138

Posted on October 24, 2016 by

From the annual report into the state of the UK, published by Deloitte:

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It really is remarkable how often that has to be explained to stupid people.

Category comment, scottish politics, uk politics

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