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There’ll always be a Britain 177

Posted on September 22, 2015 by

Kezia Dugdale on the BBC’s “Good Evening Wales” yesterday.

(Good Evening Wales, BBC Radio Wales, 21 September 2015)
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“Wales and Scotland are so much smaller in size than the rest of the… the rest of England.”

The impressive bit is that that’s what she said AFTER she paused for thought.

A cautionary tale 250

Posted on September 21, 2015 by

So today we read this:

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And it was good.

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A short intermission 320

Posted on September 21, 2015 by

We’ve got a book to read today, folks, so we’ll be with you later.

mbacon

We expect it to be in the top three funniest things we read today, but to be honest with you we wouldn’t like to commit to anything more specific than that.

Kezia Dugdale Fact Check, part 673 216

Posted on September 20, 2015 by

Kezia Dugdale talking to Gordon Brewer on BBC Scotland today:

“I’m astonished that you’ve spent 10 minutes in this interview talking about independence and Trident when almost 50% of the poorest kids in the country can’t read […] I’m sure you’d be shocked to know that 50% of the poorest kids leave our schools unable to read.”

We suspect he would too. Because it’s total cobblers.

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A tale of two rallies 188

Posted on September 19, 2015 by

Hope Over Fear in George Square today:

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Why we won’t give up 161

Posted on September 19, 2015 by

One year ago today.

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The Two Or Three Stooges 49

Posted on September 19, 2015 by

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Order “Welcome To Cairnstoon”, Chris’ compilation of Wings cartoons and more, here.

The rest of the story 142

Posted on September 18, 2015 by

Alert readers of The National will have noticed an article by me in it today. It reads slightly weirdly, jumping from subject to subject, because it was originally done as an interview but they then decided to cut the questions out to get more text in.

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That’s all absolutely fine – they okayed it with me first – but some readers may be interested in seeing the full original piece, which is about twice as long. If you are, you can read it below. If you’re not, um, do what you like. I’m not your mum.

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The Persuader 258

Posted on September 18, 2015 by

Nobody else is going to do this, so we’ll do it ourselves.

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Vote Labour, get Tory 163

Posted on September 17, 2015 by

There’s a remarkable story on the BBC News website today about the latest findings of the British Election Study, last seen destroying the myth that fear of the SNP damaged Labour in England. The piece focuses on the discovery that being seen as “too left-wing” does NOT, in fact, cost Labour votes, despite the hysterical warnings of supposedly leftist pundits.

But there’s a more startling fact buried right at the end.

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Forces of darkness ride south 44

Posted on September 17, 2015 by

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Better not together 254

Posted on September 16, 2015 by

Dear Blairite MP,

I’m writing on behalf of hundreds of thousands of Labour Party members; some new, and some, like me, who have been loyal party members throughout our adult lives. I’m not writing to any one of you in particular.

The ones I’m addressing will know who they are.

newlab

It’s time to talk about us.

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