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Kezia Dugdale Fact Check, Part 676 96

Posted on April 05, 2016 by

Kezia Dugdale, 7 March 2016:

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Let’s just run that one through the ol’ Checkalizer 5000.

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April Fool Of The Year 2016 266

Posted on April 04, 2016 by

Goes to the BBC, for this cracker on Friday.

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That is some arch satire right there, Auntie. Well done.

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The Sunday Review 210

Posted on April 03, 2016 by

This is an intriguing and engrossing extended chat between Christopher Silver and Iain Macwhirter for what will hopefully become a regular series by the excellent Phantom Power Films, creators of Altered States and lots more:

It’s well worth whiling away a little bit of your afternoon on.

Replacement cartoon service 228

Posted on April 02, 2016 by

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Chris Cairns is on holiday. Yes, again.

It shouldn’t happen to a vetter 82

Posted on April 02, 2016 by

If there’s one thing the Scottish Conservatives love to do, it’s lecture the SNP about vetting its candidates. Here’s Ruth Davidson on Michelle Thomson, for example:

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And it’s not just her.

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Let’s get the party started 257

Posted on April 01, 2016 by

Because this just happened:

And that’s about as close to a guarantee as you’ll get, readers.

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Onwards to victory! 170

Posted on April 01, 2016 by

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The subject of ruin 185

Posted on March 31, 2016 by

We haven’t seen this published anywhere else, so we may as well do it. We dropped a brief line to the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust a few days ago querying their award of a £50,000 grant to disgraced lying MP Alistair Carmichael, specifically in the context of the fact that their own website expressly excludes grants for “legal fees”.

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Below is their response, which we received today.

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The unsettled will 141

Posted on March 31, 2016 by

This is a Scotsman front page from nine months ago:

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We don’t think many people would disagree with that.

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The last four minutes 170

Posted on March 30, 2016 by

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

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.

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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.

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The Hateful 88 123

Posted on March 30, 2016 by

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.

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And as it turned out, it was.

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