Ever since Scottish Daily Mail political editor Alan Roden jumped ship to go and rearrange the deckchairs for Labour, his former paper has very noticeably toned down its hysterical “SNP BAD” content. We can go through the Mail for days on end now without finding some ludicrously distorted misrepresentation or screaming outrage piece about how a Nat MP found 20p down the back of their sofa without declaring it to HMRC or such.
But we suppose that it’ll at least be bleakly funny, whenever the second independence referendum comes round, watching Labour try to sell a vote for the UK as a vote for internationalist brotherhood and solidarity.
To be honest, readers, we gave up on taking any notice of David Torrance‘s mundane attempts at trolling in the Herald some time ago. But some alert readers pointed us towards this week’s column, suggesting that it was a bald rewriting of history some way beyond their usual bland irritancy.
This was the passage they objected to:
It’s a patronising piece of “shut up and eat your cereal” condescension for sure. But to be fair to Torrance, it does also happen to be true. Wait, not true. The other thing.
The starting pistol hasn’t actually been fired on the two-year Brexit process yet, but now we have a clear statement of when it will be: this morning on The Andrew Marr Show, the Prime Minister pledged that it would happen before the end of next March.
(We might end up broke, in other words, but at least we’ll be good old British broke, with none of those awful smelly foreign Euro-Johnnies around to see it.)
And nobody was getting a sick note.
And for supporters of independence, that’s about as good as news gets.
The Daily Telegraph just released a video called “100 Reasons Why Brexit Was A Good Thing”. It listed them to a soundtrack of “Jerusalem”, the same song that closed the Labour Party conference earlier this week with its stirring ode to just one of the four nations of the United Kingdom.
We’ve saved a few of the highlights below, just in case the Telegraph should delete the video in a fit of sanity. We’ve also added one fake one. See if you can spot it.
Low-wattage Labour list MSP Neil Findlay (rejected by the electorate of Almond Valley by a thumping 8,393 votes in May) puffed himself up to maximum socialism this week and attacked the SNP’s rather more popular Paisley MP Mhairi Black over a Scottish Daily Express story about travel expenses.
It might have been an idea if he’d read the piece all the way to the end.
You can see the full unedited Kezia Dugdale interview with Gordon Brewer on today’s Sunday Politics Scotland at this link, so you can verify that the shortened edit below isn’t misrepresenting anything. But if you don’t have time or attention span for the full 20 minutes, this’ll give you the gist without all the desperate waffling.
We think readers will agree that there can no longer be so much as a scintilla of doubt over whether Kezia believes Jeremy Corbyn can lead Labour to victory.
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100%Yes on Steadying The Ship: “Izzie, STOP putting party before Country!!!! I can see your plan has merit. If in fact JS was going to…” May 16, 13:05
Mark Beggan on Steadying The Ship: “Another word salad. Saying nothing.” May 16, 12:46
Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh on Steadying The Ship: “Initial link to ROBERT CURRY material: https://americanmind.org/author/robert-curry/ Paragraph by Curry: « At the age of sixteen, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison,…” May 16, 12:43
Alf Baird on Steadying The Ship: “We have to accept that the Scottish school of enlightenment failed even to ascertain Scotland’s colonial capture, much like Paine…” May 16, 11:18
Captain Caveman on The Hills Of Far Away: “Shhhh! 😮 Don’t you know that all polled are “rigged” according to the CIA, and your highlighting this is only…” May 16, 10:57
100%Yes on Steadying The Ship: “Lorncal & Geri, All of our politicians have no interest in politics its carer and money driven and your both…” May 16, 10:53
Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh on Steadying The Ship: “Cynicus: « the name of the author is Robert Curry. Not Curie. Has the Québecois author Scotticised or Frenchified the…” May 16, 10:33
Cynicus on Steadying The Ship: “Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh says: 16 May, 2026 at 12:42 am “Excerpt from CONTACT… professeur ….. Robert Curie…” ======== For ease of…” May 16, 09:37
TURABDIN on Steadying The Ship: “«révolutionnaire»……stupide spelletchequeur…” May 16, 09:16
Northcode on Steadying The Ship: ““Seek help.” Why even comment like that? What do you believe your twa wird sentence achieved beyond making you seem…” May 16, 09:11
TURABDIN on Steadying The Ship: “ON AVANCE LENTEMENT, festina lente…’c’est revolutionaire ça? & who decides who the gens bêtes are what constitute mauvaises idées. Scottish…” May 16, 09:07
Northcode on Steadying The Ship: “I rose early this morning and writ doun a poem in the Scots leid. The Stanes Foretelt Ryse noo, ye…” May 16, 09:00
Aidan on The Broken Rainbow: “LOL Geri yes because that’s how it works. The UN writes to private citizens with a big list of things…” May 16, 07:16
James Barr Gardner on Steadying The Ship: “If Swinney had been a football manager he would have been long gone by now along with his coaching staff…” May 16, 05:41
Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh on Steadying The Ship: “Excerpt from CONTACT podcast hosted by Montréal-born STÉPHAN BUREAU. Here he interviews Louis Sarkozy (son of Nicolas Sarkozy). Louis Sarkozy…” May 16, 00:42
Cynicus on Steadying The Ship: “A picture really IS worth 1000 words. The chart above illustrates perfectly what I’ve often said. Swinney was a dud…” May 16, 00:20
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Geri on Steadying The Ship: “To be honest, Salmond was the only good thing about the SNP. Margo & Jim too. If I remember correctly…” May 15, 22:17
Northcode on The Broken Rainbow: ““A Voluntary Union? Not only was it not voluntary, it was unconstitutional and unlawful, and so was the Treaty since…” May 15, 21:43
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Geri on Steadying The Ship: “? You’re government is run by paedophiles….? I don’t think I’ll ever tire of that tune…” May 15, 20:59
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Northcode on Steadying The Ship: “If all the years on the chart from the latest WoS post (bar 1999) are added together we arrive at…” May 15, 20:24
Bilbo on Steadying The Ship: “There has been article upon article about a £5 billion deficit over the course of next Holyrood parliament. There is…” May 15, 20:01
Mark Beggan on Steadying The Ship: “Joke Time! When is a resignation Not a resignation? When it’s a Wessignation!” May 15, 19:18
Aidan on The Broken Rainbow: ““ The UK is an English criminal enterprise run by the English establishment for the English establishment. That is the…” May 15, 19:18
Mark Beggan on Steadying The Ship: “You can take oor freedom but you’ll never take oor benefits!!” May 15, 19:12
Xaracen on The Broken Rainbow: “Nothing in your response to me is relevant, Hatey. As ever, you carefully ignored the point. You changed the subject…” May 15, 18:54
