Our Man In Strasbourg 126
Posted on
September 10, 2016 by
Chris Cairns
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
Posted on
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.
Junkies, tramps and thieves 343
Posted on
September 02, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Fear and lies work. Over many decades (and really for centuries) the Unionist parties and the media have succeeded in persuading a large percentage of Scots that they’re beggars, scroungers, vagrants and “subsidy junkies” dependent on the ever-generous charity of England to keep them from starvation.
And in terms of the facts, that hasn’t always been an easy sell.
Another bullet dodged 91
Posted on
September 02, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
How to disrespect the electorate 181
Posted on
September 01, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
More or less since the morning of 19 September 2014, the Unionist parties in Scotland have kept up an unceasing chorus of “You lost! Accept it!” directed at the entire Yes movement, but primarily the SNP (despite the SNP having never to date disputed the result or called for a re-run of the referendum).
Readers may not be entirely astonished to discover this morning that at least as far as Scottish Labour are concerned, that principle only applies to other people.
Because we’re pretty sure there’s already a name for when political parties set out an “alternative programme of government”.
The head start 401
Posted on
August 30, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz gave an interesting interview to Good Morning Scotland just after 8am today, in which he expressed a number of careful, measured and qualified views on a variety of subjects including currency.
But obviously Scottish people are much too stupid to understand stuff like that, so the BBC quickly dumbed it down for them.
The problem is that there’s a difference between simplifying and falsifying.
