The unsettled will 141
Posted on
March 31, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
This is a Scotsman front page from nine months ago:
We don’t think many people would disagree with that.
The last four minutes 170
Posted on
March 30, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
In the end, we decided comment on this was superfluous.
(Good Morning Scotland, BBC Radio Scotland, 30 March 2016)
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Michael McMahon, the Scottish Labour candidate for Uddingston & Bellshill, has been MSP for the seat (or its previous equivalent) since 1999.
Hindsight in reverse 136
Posted on
March 30, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Kezia Dugdale gave an interview to Good Morning Scotland earlier today that viewed from above would probably look rather like the runway at Baghdad Airport in 1991.
If we tried to pick out all the individual bomb craters in one post, readers’ eyes would glaze over long before the end. So we’re going to have to do it in bits.
The Hateful 88 123
Posted on
March 30, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
When we ran this story on Monday, some of the press got rather upset with us. Even though we’d linked to the full data tables published on the ComRes site, Scottish Daily Mail political editor Alan Roden, for example, huffily tweeted a link to a cropped table suggesting that the real sample size was higher.
And as it turned out, it was.
Your voice counts for nothing 105
Posted on
March 30, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
STV’s Bernard Ponsonby asks Kezia Dugdale about the possibility of a future second referendum should the Scottish electorate express a clear democratic wish for one:
(Not taken out of context. To see the full clip, go to around 1h 43m here.)
Live No Viewers 73
Posted on
March 29, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
From the STV debate, an alert reader spots the picture that sums up Scottish Labour.
The one hundred and ten 342
Posted on
March 28, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Alert readers will have noticed that the Conservatives and most of the right-wing press have recently embarked on a hyperbolic campaign against the Scottish Government’s “named person” child-protection legislation. The latest assault is in today’s Daily Mail:
The shriekingly furious lead article thunders in outrage that “nearly two thirds of Scots have condemned the SNP’s state guardian scheme as an ‘unacceptable intrusion’ into family life”, which sounds like a pretty damning verdict.
It’s not until you look a little deeper that it all falls to pieces.
Proud Scot Of The Week 262
Posted on
March 27, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
It’s the “your” that makes it.
The next time you hear Scottish Labour whinge that nationalists have “stolen” the Saltire or some such, remember what they really think of it.
Pack up, don’t stray 90
Posted on
March 26, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We were mucking about doing some other stuff today when we came across these. We thought they looked quite striking all put together.
No other reason than that, really.
The Not-So-Great Dictator 172
Posted on
March 26, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We had a little Twitter run-in last night with former Scottish Labour deputy leader and current unemployed halfwit Anas Sarwar, when he reported us to Police Scotland for making a joke about bank holiday mail deliveries, “people in England” and “especially” Scottish ones – which of course includes this site’s own editor, that being the gag.
We’d almost forgotten he existed. But the incident brought something back to mind.
To be fair to Mr Sarwar, he was at least partly right.
One day 73
Posted on
March 26, 2016 by
Chris Cairns
Order “Welcome To Cairnstoon”, Chris’ compilation of Wings cartoons and more, here.
The state we’re in 121
Posted on
March 25, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Here’s a column from Kenny Farquharson in today’s tablet edition of the Times, which hasn’t made it onto the website. We don’t know if it’s in the print version.
Let’s just linger over those words for a moment.
