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Breaking news broken 113

Posted on February 23, 2016 by

File this one under “the wish is the father of the thought”:

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We wonder which government?

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A trip down Memory Lane 78

Posted on February 23, 2016 by

This was a little cruel, frankly.

(From today’s Daily Politics.)

Song For The Fiscal Framework 86

Posted on February 23, 2016 by

Watch the devolution committee live from 8.30am here.

England’s Dreaming 366

Posted on February 22, 2016 by

It’s quite incredible that someone with Jim Sillars’ political experience should be so naive about the tactics surrounding the EU referendum. Regardless of your feelings on the EU itself, there’s absolutely no point in any supporter of Scottish independence voting Leave this June, and here’s why.

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More repeats 297

Posted on February 21, 2016 by

The slow news year in Scottish politics continues. These are all from today:

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Sound familiar?

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The Taffy Tories 120

Posted on February 20, 2016 by

Alert readers can’t have failed to notice a desperate Scottish Labour dusting off the old “Tartan Tories” attack on the SNP recently, over the Nats’ unwillingness to join in with Kezia Dugdale’s kerrazy kaper of hiking up income tax.

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So after today we can only assume they’ll be looking for some similarly pithy zingers for their colleagues in Wales. They can have this one for free.

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We agree with Michael Gove 143

Posted on February 20, 2016 by

And you can’t say that every day.

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All Hands On Deck 102

Posted on February 20, 2016 by

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The drained pool 219

Posted on February 19, 2016 by

It’s curious that as the Scotland Bill negotiations deadlock drags on, well beyond its original deadline of 12 February and now hurtling headlong towards the extended 23 February one with no sign of progress on the horizon, that nobody is remarking on one of the most striking facets of the new devolution proposals.

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Remember “pooling and sharing”, readers? Whatever happened to that?

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Toadies Of Toad Hall 243

Posted on February 18, 2016 by

Last night, MP Natalie McGarry made another heavily-qualified semi-apology to the popular abusive-tweeter enthusiast JK Rowling, because that’s how bullying works. (As far as we know McGarry has still refused Rowling’s demand that she make a sizeable donation to Rowling’s charity under threat of legal action.)

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One of George Orwell’s most-quoted lines is “Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.”

We wonder who was trying to silence the torrent of drivel below, then.

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Making numbers dance 86

Posted on February 18, 2016 by

Without a doubt our new favourite Unionist website is this one:

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And it’s not just for the snazzy badges.

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The SNPBAD Files 318

Posted on February 17, 2016 by

Since the astonishing election of 56 SNP MPs to the UK Parliament last May, the Unionist media – suddenly deprived of a whole contacts book full of friendly Scottish Labour bench-warmers ready to feed it cosy stories over a boozy expenses lunch in Whitehall – has raked through every bin and gutter in the land looking for anything (however pathetic) that it can try to puff up, distort, and rope into service as “dirt” on each of the Nat members, in an attempt to discredit them and the party.

So let’s just have a little look in here and – YIKES!

This could take some time.

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