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Under his hat 376

Posted on April 09, 2016 by

underhat

The final meltdown 338

Posted on April 08, 2016 by

Poor old Daily Record.

rechag

What a distance to fall.

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The panellist and the activist 357

Posted on April 06, 2016 by

Those of you who read our post of earlier today probably didn’t feel there was anything ambiguous going on in it. When Ruth Davidson intervened in an election debate to protest that the chair, the BBC’s Louise White, was being unfair to Nicola Sturgeon, it was pretty obvious who she meant, and White’s response removed any doubt.

Which makes this eye-witness account of the event, spotted by an alert reader this afternoon, odd in several ways.

panellist2

Let’s count them up.

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Hostile questioning 183

Posted on April 06, 2016 by

We were rather gobsmacked, readers, when we tuned into this morning’s BBC Radio Scotland phone-in at 9am. Ostensibly discussing the promotion of “Rangers” to the Premiership, presenter Louise White adopted the most astonishingly, openly partisan and aggressive approach we’ve ever heard from a host on the state broadcaster (which is no small feat), on the subject of whether the club was a new one or not.

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Callers were harangued, interrupted and hustled on for daring to suggest the truth. It was a jaw-dropping display of disregard for not only impartiality but basic journalistic regard for the plain, uncontestable facts of the matter.

But don’t panic, football-haters. This post is about something else.

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Surveying desire 265

Posted on April 05, 2016 by

Right then, we need to start sorting this out.

blackbooks1

And it needs doing in an orderly way.

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Kezia Dugdale Fact Check, Part 676 96

Posted on April 05, 2016 by

Kezia Dugdale, 7 March 2016:

dugcrap

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.

bbcapril

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

kezhobbes3a

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

fundraiser2016

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