Family values 161
Posted on
March 05, 2016 by
Chris Cairns
The Great Separatist 165
Posted on
March 04, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
An alert reader just found this. It’s quite something.
We especially liked this bit:
“The growing practice of the socialist government is to take decisions vitally affecting Scotland in Whitehall… this is a process which we have every intention of setting in direct reverse.”
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The off-message journalist 204
Posted on
March 03, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We thought you might like to see this snippet from a recent edition of the BBC News channel’s newspapers round-up, spotted by an alert reader.
We particularly enjoy the obviousness with which presenter Martine Croxall is being fed random titles into her earpiece by a panicking producer in response to freelancer stringer Matthew Green’s unexpected observation.
The resource collective 377
Posted on
March 02, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
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Together in unity 104
Posted on
March 01, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Weirdly, right after seeing this earlier this afternoon, we sat down to watch an episode of The Professionals on ITV4, which contained what seemed a rather apt segment.
We don’t think it’s a younger Iain Martin of the Telegraph (accompanied by colleagues Alan Cochrane and Tom Gallagher), but don’t make us swear to it.
The lonely onlys 46
Posted on
March 01, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
As we’ve explored many times on Wings, one of the many reasons you should never trust a newspaper’s headline is that even the ones that are technically true can be painting a highly (and deliberately) misleading picture.
For example, more than two years ago we pointed to a Scotsman story that blared “A THIRD OF SCOTS WOULD BACK EXIT FROM EU”, which is a rather curious spin to put on a poll which found a 13-point margin for staying in the EU.
A paper particularly fond of misusing stats in this way is the Daily Mail.
Performance review day 398
Posted on
February 29, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Presented without comment 166
Posted on
February 28, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
A little snippet from a corner of today’s Scottish Mail On Sunday.
Shoulder to shoulder 142
Posted on
February 27, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The dogged determination of Scottish Labour to insult the Scottish electorate is a source of constant slack-jawed astonishment to us. Over the years we’ve lost count of the number of times the party’s politicians have effectively said “People are just too stupid to vote for us”, in the apparent belief that abuse is the way to win back support.
But it’s not always so overt. The subtler ways in which the party treats voters like morons include the assumption that people’s memories only go back to yesterday’s newspapers, and there can surely be no more stark illustration than its recent adoption of the attack line that the SNP are standing “shoulder to shoulder with the Tories”.
Ken Loves Laura 172
Posted on
February 27, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
If you’ve ever heard people talking about the “Scottish cringe” but don’t really know what it is, you could do a lot worse for an example than this:
Jeez, Ken, Valentine’s was a fortnight ago, you had your chance.
Future Shocks 88
Posted on
February 27, 2016 by
Chris Cairns
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