Moodievision: The Fall And Fall… 150
Posted on
May 13, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
…Of Ed Miliband.
The lockout 511
Posted on
May 12, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
There was an interesting line in The National yesterday:
“The monthly Scottish Questions in Parliament looks set to be an odd affair.
In other words, business as usual.
How the north was lost 557
Posted on
May 11, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The reasons for Scottish Labour’s obliteration at the hands of the electorate last week are manifold, and most of them were very thoroughly explored in the weekend’s press, for example by Kevin McKenna here and here.
But as is our wont here on Wings, we wanted something a little more empirical to get our teeth into, so a few days before the election we commissioned a poll of 1,013 Scottish voters from Panelbase covering some of the subjects the regional office had campaigned on under its branch manager Jim Murphy.
The results were fascinating.
The power of the press 360
Posted on
May 10, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The polls were not wrong 312
Posted on
May 09, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Much of the commentariat and media has been in a froth for the last 24 hours about the supposed failure of the nation’s pollsters to predict the Conservative victory. This, for example, was Labour’s highly-paid election guru David Axelrod:
But the truth is that the polls – just like the heavily-maligned exit poll which turned out to be bang on the money – got nothing wrong. The people interpreting them did.
Seeing it coming a mile off 125
Posted on
May 08, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The media might be shocked. But readers of Wings aren’t.
Because there’s simply no excuse for anyone acting surprised.
The something and nothing election 274
Posted on
May 08, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Stronger for Scotland 1,718
Posted on
May 07, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
It’s time for a change.
Let’s be it.
No (“Kidding” – Ed), Sherlock 190
Posted on
May 06, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
