Sorry, guys 259
Posted on
September 12, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
What you can’t say 293
Posted on
September 12, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
As several alert readers have already spotted, our Twitter account was suspended at some point in the early hours of this morning. We’ve had no email from Twitter offering any sort of explanation, but it seems most likely to have been at the behest of a Daily Express hack called Siobhan McFadyen who’s been huffily bleating to the company’s executives over the weekend about this tweet:
The reason we tweeted that comment is detailed here and here. But apparently it’s an opinion that you’re no longer allowed to have.
Far below the gutters 232
Posted on
September 11, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Daily Express hack Siobhan McFadyen had a quite extraordinary meltdown on Twitter last night and this morning after we highlighted an appalling article that she’d written for Saturday’s paper.
After angrily attacking other users for a few hours, by the end she’d declared a full-on DefCon One, sending out a desperate plea for hauners from entities as diverse as the Times, the New York Times, the Telegraph, the NUJ, the Washington Post, Guardian Scotland, BBC Radio 4, the Drudge Report, the CEO of Twitter and JK Rowling.
At the time of writing, none had replied.
Dredging the sewers 227
Posted on
September 10, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We’ve already highlighted the abominable state of the Daily Express this week, but an article in today’s edition is surely some sort of record-breaking low.
Hold onto your hats, folks, you won’t believe this one.
Ready to rumble 258
Posted on
September 09, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The tone of coverage deployed by the Daily Express (Scottish and English editions alike) with regard to the First Minister of Scotland in recent weeks has been both bizarre and disturbing. Yesterday the paper ran this “story”:
It’s a load of gibberish, obviously. But if the FM was preparing herself for a punch-up, you could hardly blame her given what’s apparently been going on.
Neither blood nor soil 249
Posted on
September 08, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Supporters of Scottish independence have known for years that the civic “nationalism” espoused by the Yes movement bears no relation to the so-called “blood and soil” varieties found in many other countries. Every racist or ethnic-nationalist organisation in Britain – the BNP, the EDL/SDL, the National Front and so on – was stridently No.
But a YouGov poll released today puts numbers on it for the first time.
And twirling, always twirling 277
Posted on
September 07, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Have you ever seen the rain? 227
Posted on
September 06, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The BBC lunchtime weather forecast of 15 October 1987 is now fondly looked back on as a moment of shared national doh-what-are-we-like? comedy, in the same vein as a Morecambe and Wise Christmas show or something.
But the reality was very dramatically different.
Nothing stays the same 103
Posted on
September 06, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Selective listening 477
Posted on
September 04, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Eternally angry Conservative MSP Adam Tomkins has been even shoutier than usual this week, purple-faced with rage about the fact that the SNP has decided to spend some of its own money (not taxpayer cash) asking people for their opinions.
It’s a curious argument from a member of a party that’s been rejected in successive elections in Scotland in 1964, 1966, 1970, 1974, 1974 again, 1979, 1983, 1987, 1992, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2010, 2011, 2015 and 2016, but keeps turning up and barking orders anyway. You’d think the first 50 years might qualify as a hint.
Shortbread-tin nationalism 251
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September 03, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
When you choose to declare to the world that you’re not actually a country but just a small region of someone else’s, this sort of thing will happen.
