An absence of clarity 307
Posted on
December 04, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
On Wednesday the Daily Record ran this story:
It didn’t have to wait long for the “questions” to be answered.
Seventeen days later 411
Posted on
December 03, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
This is Labour’s shadow Foreign Secretary Hilary Benn, quoted in the Independent On Sunday on the 15th of November, just two and a half weeks ago.
That’s interesting, isn’t it?
Britain goes to war 339
Posted on
December 02, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Tonight we watched as the conclusion of a “debate” in the UK Parliament saw the “opposition”, almost unprecedentedly, sum up the same case as the government, to roof-raising cheers and applause (which is now apparently permitted again) from the Conservative benches for a Labour shadow minister.
We were rather put in mind of a famous Neil Kinnock speech from 1985.
Doing something 193
Posted on
December 02, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Alex Salmond in the Syria debate with the non-pacifist case against bombing.
(Features brief cameo appearance from Alberto Costa MP, noted twat.)
The silence of the bams 163
Posted on
December 02, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
It’s never usually terribly difficult to get a Scottish Labour MSP to express a view on anything. It’s hard to open a newspaper without being forced to hear Jackie Baillie or James Kelly’s opinion on something or other.
(Admittedly it’s generally the SNP, and the opinion is invariably that they’re bad and whatever they do is wrong – but still, they’re not shy about coming forward with it.)
So when Neil Findlay attacked the SNP for all having the same view on bombing Syria last night (about which he was inexplicably furious, even though that view was exactly the same as his own opinion), we thought it’d be easy enough to find out how many of his MSP colleagues were on the respective sides of the debate.
It turned out that we were wrong.
The Eurasia Principle 217
Posted on
December 01, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The meme of the week among the Unionist media and politicians is once again that the SNP is a sinister Borg-like organisation where independent thought is outlawed.
Bewilderingly, this evening Labour MSP Neil Findlay bitterly tweeted a complaint that all of the SNP’s elected members apparently agreed with his own position on bombing Syria, the vile swine that they are. (Presumably he’d prefer if some of them voted with the Tories just for the sake of it.) But he’s not alone.
A feat of memory 181
Posted on
December 01, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
This is the lead Politics story in morning’s Herald:
And, y’know, we’re fairly confident that’s true.
A tale of two situations 107
Posted on
November 30, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
To mark the day that we both appeared in the Herald’s “Power 100” list of “The leading Scots who shape our lives” – and she had another go at trolling us – we’d like to dedicate this wonderful tune sincerely to the popular children’s author JK Rowling:
We’ll try to understand her problems more sensitively in future.
Interesting Times 115
Posted on
November 30, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
From tonight’s Evening Times:
We’re not aware of a single elected Scottish Labour official previously expressing unequivocal public support for independence. Is this a small, self-interested one-off, or just the first cracking of the dam? We can only wait and see.
Cringe Of The St Andrew’s Day 163
Posted on
November 30, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Chris Deerin in this morning’s Daily Mail:
That’s okay, Chris. We’re embarrassed that you’re Scottish too.
The monstrous detriment of women 265
Posted on
November 29, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We were considering having a day off today, readers. There’s absolutely nothing of any note happening in Scottish politics, and the papers have been reduced to scraping up all manner of barely-reheated leftover dregs to fill their pages.
But then someone drew our attention to something in Scotland On Sunday about the ongoing Women For Independence fiasco, and we were too annoyed to let it lie.
Poking the bear 328
Posted on
November 28, 2015 by
Chris Cairns
Order “Welcome To Cairnstoon”, Chris’ compilation of Wings cartoons and more, here.
