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Arsenic vs old lace 353

Posted on July 09, 2016 by

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Kounting With Kezia 246

Posted on July 08, 2016 by

Earlier today we were moved to tweet our scepticism regarding a claim made by the Scottish Labour branch manager Kezia Dugdale, as reported in the Guardian.

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Even on the most casual glance, the numbers just didn’t seem to add up. If 62% of Scots voted to stay in the EU and 55% voted to stay in the UK, with no correlation between the two things, then the Venn-diagram intersection between those two groups seems pretty unlikely to add up to more than 50%, let alone a “vast” majority.

So as we like to do, we checked.

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The UK Politics 2016 FAQ 275

Posted on July 07, 2016 by

There’s a lot going on at the moment, readers, and an awful lot of conflicting analysis and commentary to confuse people trying to make sense of it.

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Luckily, as ever, Wings Over Scotland is here to cut through the bull and give you the straight answers to the burning questions of the day.

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The wages of sin 155

Posted on July 06, 2016 by

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The Chilcot Report in full 207

Posted on July 06, 2016 by

The short version is “Everything Tony Blair said was a lie”. The full report can be read in 58 sections at the inquiry’s website here, but in the quite likely event that it gets swamped today we’ve uploaded the entire thing as a single convenient RAR file here.

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[EDIT: individual sections now compiled into the print version’s 12 volumes.]

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Going round in circles all the time 459

Posted on July 05, 2016 by

We’re not naturally disposed to sympathy for Tories, but it must be hellish being poor Ruth Davidson at the moment. The poor woman doesn’t know which way she’s facing from one minute to the next. Here she is less than a year ago:

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Situations vacant 90

Posted on July 04, 2016 by

It’s okay, folks, we’ve got this all worked out.

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Angela Eagle isn’t happy in the Labour Party and the Tories need a new leader. STV News Edinburgh may have jumped the gun slightly this evening, but this alternative career path makes a lot of sense.

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We’d quite like this explained 187

Posted on July 04, 2016 by

BBC Scotland is hosting a live TV debate tonight.

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Despite having an even number of participants, the panel is split 3:1 in favour of Remain and 3:1 against independence (surely the biggest specifically Scottish issue likely to arise from the Brexit vote, and which several polls in the last couple of weeks now show is backed by a majority of voters).

Half of the debaters are also Labour politicians, which means that the third-placed party which got 22% of the vote in this May’s election has as much representation as two parties who got 69% between them.

We’ve been racking our brains for a couple of hours trying to work out a way in which such a multiply-skewed line-up could be justified (other than flat-out trolling), and we’ve got nothing. Does anyone have any ideas?

So happy together 205

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Toga party 674

Posted on July 02, 2016 by

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All things are relative 874

Posted on June 30, 2016 by

Of the UK’s potential next Prime Ministers, Theresa May is the nice one.

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We’ll just leave you to ponder that for a bit.

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The new national anthem 74

Posted on June 30, 2016 by

Boris Johnson is NOT standing for Prime Minister.

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