Red, white and blue 215
Posted on
December 10, 2016 by
Chris Cairns
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At the top of the dial 299
Posted on
December 09, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We’ll be honest, there are some bits of this that make us wince, and unfortunately most of them come in the first two minutes where they’ll do the most damage in terms of getting a persuadeable voter to watch the rest of it. But it’s an important piece of work, containing stuff even we didn’t know about, and it should be seen.
If you want to show it to people who aren’t already Yes, though, we’d suggest giving them a link that starts 123 seconds in.
Return of the vortex 174
Posted on
December 08, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Particularly alert readers may recall a phenomenon we haven’t covered much recently, whereby aspects of politics magically transform as they cross the border between Scotland and the rest of the UK. But this week we’ve had a sighting in a new area.
Sounds pretty bad for poor old Wales.
Just following orders 163
Posted on
December 08, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Reiner Luyken is a 65-year-old German journalist who’s spent more than half of his life in the Highlands, and seems to have a knack for upsetting the neighbours.
We’re sure it was just an unfortunate one-off misunderstanding.
This time they really mean it 301
Posted on
December 07, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Alert readers may have noticed with barely-concealed disinterest that Scottish Labour have announced their intention to have another really hard think about devolution.
With Labour not looking like being in power at either Holyrood or Westminster for at least a decade, and their opinions therefore being about as relevant as our ideas as to who should play in the back four for Real Madrid next weekend, most papers treated the news with the gravitas it deserved, such as this report in the Sunday Post:
But we thought it might be a snappy idea to keep track of all the times the Unionist parties have promised that they’ve come up with the ultimate form of devo-X.
The Gambit 584
Posted on
December 05, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Unionists got very excited last week about a YouGov poll for the Times which showed that not only had the post-Brexit bump in support for independence been undone, but that it was now (fractionally) below the level recorded in the indyref for the first time since the September 2014 vote.
(It was a slightly curious poll, with a massively disproportionate number – over 27% – of its respondents born outside Scotland, mostly from the rest of the UK, but it was weighted so that shouldn’t have been much of a factor. It also found majority support for a second EU referendum, despite a 30-point margin for Remain, but opposition to a second indyref despite the margin for the Union being just 12 points.)
Nevertheless, given that nothing’s happened since the end of June that ought to have damaged the case for Yes (the oil price is currently at a 12-month high, for example, almost twice what it was in January), the 10% drop in support is a troubling one for the independence movement.
But it shouldn’t be. Because what the poll shows is that there is currently a majority of people in Scotland prepared to vote for independence.
There’s no other way 420
Posted on
December 03, 2016 by
Chris Cairns
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Kezia Dugdale Fact Check, Part 677 383
Posted on
December 01, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Here’s Kezia Dugdale at FMQs today.
Just for fun, let’s do the sums again, shall we?
The passing of sentence 200
Posted on
November 30, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The Prime Minister of the UK, whose party has one MP in Scotland, officially tells the Commons that she doesn’t believe people on benefits should be able to survive.
Happy St Andrews’ Day, readers.
The patron saint of North Britain 132
Posted on
November 30, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Men without honour 315
Posted on
November 29, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
I wasn’t going to mention this on the site because it’s basically a personal matter, but as most readers don’t use Twitter or Facebook it probably ought to be briefly filed for the record, given the amount of media coverage there’s been.
It won’t take long.
Hitler elected again 285
Posted on
November 28, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Paul Nuttall (pictured below playing “Eddie Hitler” in the BBC sitcom “Bottom”) has just been elected by a landslide as the new leader of UKIP.
We’ve never felt more British, frankly.
