A probability quiz 126
Posted on
March 23, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Q: What are the chances of us NOT having something special for you tomorrow?
A:
A failure to communicate 75
Posted on
March 22, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
From the Scotsman tonight:
As previously, we’re having quite a lot of trouble understanding the difference between “independence” (39%), and “the Scottish Parliament should make all the decisions for Scotland” (51%). We’re going to drop the SSAS a line and see if they’ll ask for us.
Something to do 104
Posted on
March 22, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Barring some sort of unforseeable apocalypse, Scottish Labour aren’t going to win the Holyrood election in May, so it doesn’t really matter what their policy proposals are – they’re never going to happen.
Nevertheless, it’s pretty much our job to examine stuff like their plan to “scrap council tax”, and it’s more fun than watching the news today, so let’s give it a go.
First off the mark 186
Posted on
March 22, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Brussels terror atrocity = SNP BAD.
Chris Deerin, Iain Martin, Alan Cochrane and Ian Smart will be hopping mad.
The other kind of soaring 167
Posted on
March 21, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Even by the low, low normal arithmetical standards of the Scottish media, yesterday’s Scottish Sunday Express humiliated itself with the most stupendously factually wrong articles we’ve seen in a newspaper for some time.
James Kelly on Scot Goes Pop! has already eviscerated its comically inept bumbling in detail, but we thought we’d just quickly give you a visual version.
Coming very soon 92
Posted on
March 21, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We’ve got a little surprise for you this week, readers.
Stay tuned.
Blood and soil socialism 260
Posted on
March 20, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
From Kezia Dugdale’s speech to the Scottish Labour conference yesterday:
So hang on – only people born in Scotland are “Scottish”? Bit controversial. But then again, given Scottish Labour’s constant pejorative use of the word “foreigner” in recent years, we probably shouldn’t be shocked.
Funny how things come around 179
Posted on
March 19, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
From a BBC report on the 2004 Scottish Labour conference:
And to give the former First Minister his due, he wasn’t wrong.
The new middle 284
Posted on
March 18, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The Scottish Daily Mail has been working itself into a froth this week over the idea that the Scottish Government doesn’t intend to match George Osborne’s increase in the upper-rate income tax threshold from £42,000 to £45,000.
Central to the complaint is that rejecting the increase will hurt what the Mail calls “the squeezed middle” and “middle earners”, including “nurses, teachers and police”.
There are, of course, several ways of defining “middle”.
With a straight face 296
Posted on
March 17, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Here’s a tweet from Fraser Nelson of the Spectator this morning:
Now, we already know that’s complete drivel for at least five reasons. But it’s not the maddest thing about the point Nelson’s trying to make.
All you need to know about the budget 156
Posted on
March 16, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
…but were probably genuinely afraid to ask.
Tories, there. Thank goodness we’re better together, eh readers?
