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Questions for Jim 213

Posted on April 29, 2015 by

Scottish Labour branch office manager Jim Murphy will be appearing on BBC Radio Scotland’s “Call Kaye” programme from 9am today, taking questions from voters as well as presenter Kaye Adams. The phone number to ring in is 0500 92 95 00.

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Below are a few posers readers might like to put to Mr Murphy, because he seems to have been adept at avoiding them throughout the campaign. Feel free to reword them.

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Category investigation, media, scottish politics

The Patriot 74

Posted on April 28, 2015 by

A little surprise bonus toon for you, readers.

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It’s from an exhibition at the Leiper Fine Art Gallery in West George Street in Glasgow (a firm friend of the Yes movement), featuring political artwork by Wings cartoonists Chris Cairns – creator of the pic above – and Greg Moodie, along with many others, of which you can buy originals to enhance your home.

It runs until 11 May, so you should probably pop along if you’re in the vicinity. We’re not saying we’ll definitely stab you if you don’t, but why take unnecessary risks?

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A recurring theme 152

Posted on April 28, 2015 by

There’s a tactical voting tool on the Telegraph website, which despite a somewhat loaded headline purports to even-handedly advise confused voters on the best course of action to take in their own constituency depending on whether they want to keep Ed Miliband or David Cameron OUT of 10 Downing Street.

We were a bit suspicious when we typed our Bath postcode in and asked to keep Cameron out, because it advised us to vote Labour even though it’s one of the safest Lib Dem seats in the country (with the Tories in 2nd) and Labour got just 3,251 votes in 2010, which is to say they’ve got absolutely no hope here.

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And then we tried some Scottish seats, and things got a bit creepy.

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Category analysis, disturbing, investigation, media, scottish politics, uk politics

The stupidest man in Britain 164

Posted on April 28, 2015 by

Firstly, we’re not sure this qualifies as “BREAKING” news:

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But it’s not the Daily Record’s cub reporter that we’re talking about.

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Category analysis, comment, scottish politics, uk politics

We didn’t imagine this, then 136

Posted on April 28, 2015 by

Waking up bleary-eyed this morning at 6.45am, we reached over to switch on Good Morning Scotland, just in time for the news headlines round-up. This is what we heard:

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We honestly thought in our semi-awake state we might have dreamed it.

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Category audio, comment, media, scottish politics

Fury as new hospital is too amazing 136

Posted on April 28, 2015 by

The Daily Mail evidently decided the first headline wasn’t mad enough.

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First and second versions here.

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Category comment, media, scottish politics, uk politics

The wheels of time grind slowly 116

Posted on April 28, 2015 by

We’re sure we’re not the only people for whom the hours are dragging and we wish the election would just hurry up and get here, but all the same we’re pretty sure that if there were 11 days left to save the UK on Sunday morning, then by Tuesday morning there should be fewer than 10 still to go.

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The punch Ali didn’t throw 96

Posted on April 27, 2015 by

Right. We’ve got some slightly bad news, readers, and we might as well bite the bullet and tell you now. It’s touch and go whether Project Red is going to arrive before the election. (The good news is that going by the polls it isn’t going to matter.) Our vast team of coders is still working on it around the clock, but it’s looking like a tall order.

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So we better tell you why.

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Category admin, scottish politics

I think the Nazis are pretty good 236

Posted on April 27, 2015 by

If you’re trying to give someone an example of a terrible group of people from history, I think the Nazis are pretty good for that purpose. They fulfil the criterion excellently, what with all the invading and occupying and repression and genocidal murder and everything, and there’s very little ambiguity or any shades of grey about their evil.

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Now, alert readers may have spotted that while the headline of this article is a genuine quote from the paragraph above, and could be technically correctly described as my words by someone with malicious and dishonest intent (something which does in fact happen regularly), it gives a highly misleading impression of what was really said.

And with that, welcome to the Scottish media.

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The bonfire of policies 85

Posted on April 27, 2015 by

Normally you have to wait until after an election for this stuff.

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But Scottish Labour’s promises are collapsing one by one with 10 days still to go.

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The party that cried “Wolf!” 243

Posted on April 26, 2015 by

There’s a fascinating detail in the latest Panelbase/Sunday Times survey of Scottish public opinion, which shows a further 2.5% swing to the SNP compared to the same company’s last poll earlier this month.

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Those are some remarkable figures, but they tell a much wider story.

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The wild weekend 162

Posted on April 26, 2015 by

Saturday:

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