Closing the attainment gap 96
Posted on
May 28, 2016 by
Chris Cairns
EU cannot be serious! 173
Posted on
May 27, 2016 by
Douglas Daniel
There’s been a lot of nonsense from both sides of the EU referendum campaign, but of all the terrible arguments for voting one way or the other, the worst has to be that the UK is not currently independent.
For supporters of Scottish independence, watching people claim the UK is not independent is like someone in Aberdeen who just had their disability benefits cut listening to a middle-class couple on a joint income of £100,000 moaning about paying a few hundred pounds a year more in council tax for their band H mansion in affluent Rubislaw Den South.
It’s particularly loathsome seeing the genuine arguments for Scottish independence being re-purposed by people who claimed they were invalid two years ago – no more so, perhaps, than in the case of George Galloway, the man who wants independence for every country in the world except his own.
The idea that the UK’s situation is comparable to Scotland’s is simply laughable, and since laughing is good for the soul, let’s look at a few points in detail.
The history of the Scottish Parliament 428
Posted on
May 25, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
There’s not much happening today, but this caught our eye:
As an at-a-glance guide to the evolution of Scottish politics it’s pretty stark.
How newspapers work 222
Posted on
May 24, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
These two stories today are based on the exact same quotes from the exact same interview in a magazine.
Thank goodness the press is here to interpret stuff for us, eh?
A slight stramash 248
Posted on
May 23, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We thought it’d be worth making a timeline of Hampden on Saturday for posterity.
Because a lot of nonsense is being talked on all sides. This is the reality.
Statements of the obvious 195
Posted on
May 23, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
An act of sabotage 201
Posted on
May 20, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Yesterday we reported how the only people who were risking the privatisation of key ferry services to the Western Isles were the Scottish Labour politicians and media crowing about how the decision to keep them in the hands of publicly-owned operator Caledonian MacBrayne had been made for political reasons.
(Which, were it true, would render the award of the contract illegal under EU law.)
We had no idea how low they were about to sink.
Two Scotsmen 195
Posted on
May 19, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Here’s (a few seconds into the clip) George, Baron Foulkes Of Cumnock.
Born in 1942 in Oswestry in Shropshire and privately educated at The Haberdashers’ Aske’s Boys’ School in Hertfordshire, George was first elected by the public in 1979, serving for 26 years. During his time as an MP he was convicted of a drunken violent assault on a policeman and fined £1,050. In 2005 he was ennobled into the House Of Lords and will make laws for UK citizens until he dies, no matter what voters say.
You’d think he’d have learned better manners by now.
Scottish Politics For Dummies 142
Posted on
May 19, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
As we write there’s a protest going on outside the Scottish Parliament regarding the privatisation of ferry services to the Western Isles. It was formally announced almost three hours ago that there definitely wasn’t going to be any privatisation and that the service would remain in public hands, but the protest still went ahead.
The people conducting the protest, who’ve got the exact thing they wanted, are now doing their level best to lose it again. Welcome to Scottish politics.
Phenomenon Of The Week 140
Posted on
May 18, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Over the past few days, readers, we haven’t been able to avoid noticing a recurring theme among Unionist types on social media – namely that the Holyrood election results are proof that support for independence is declining.
But it’s not until you ask them to explain that it gets completely mental.
The taxonomy of lies 246
Posted on
May 18, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
For much of its life, this site has been warning readers that, as their default position, they should always assume newspaper headlines are a lie until proven otherwise.
Today, Britain’s biggest-selling newspaper admitted it in public.
