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Paddington sequel announced 193

Posted on March 22, 2015 by

Featuring Scotland’s own very special bear.

Wow, Tories. Just wow.

Buyer’s remorse 174

Posted on March 22, 2015 by

We thought you’d enjoy this clip from this morning’s Andrew Marr Show, readers. It came after a very sensible interview, in which Salmond had calmly and reasonably laid out the SNP’s view on events should there be a hung parliament this May with the former First Minister’s party holding the balance of power.

Tory minister Anna Soubry seems to be experiencing a degree of regret about having begged Scots to stay in the UK. The body language says as much as the words.

The black armbams 136

Posted on March 22, 2015 by

Scotland on Sunday on Labour’s latest Scottish election strategy:

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We’re not making that up. Go and check for yourself. And when you’ve prised your jaw off the floor, acquaint yourself with the truth, as told by Jim Callaghan himself.

Is there a doctor in the house? 266

Posted on March 21, 2015 by

Our dear old pal Blair McDougall tweeted this at a minute past midnight today:

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Maybe someone can explain it to us.

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Turn around, bright eyes 66

Posted on March 21, 2015 by

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Heartless, clueless, reckless, voteless 272

Posted on March 20, 2015 by

Because we know you love a conference gallery.

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Here’s the Scottish Lib Dems in Aberdeen.

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The troll press 178

Posted on March 20, 2015 by

The Daily Record, still smarting from the humiliation of being forced to very quietly admit it told its readers a £20 billion lie about the Smith Commission late last year, has been in a demented overdrive trying to provoke Yes/SNP supporters this week.

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It started on Tuesday with an echo of the paper’s infamous “Vow” cover, clearly aimed at winding up its detractors but which passed without much comment as social media users merely raised a brief weary eyebrow and got on with their day. But then the Record started turning up the volume.

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Something worth remembering 237

Posted on March 19, 2015 by

From politics.co.uk this morning:

“Those hoping that a Labour government would look very different from the current Conservative-led government are likely to be disappointed.

Asked by the Today programme what he would reverse from Osborne’s Budget yesterday, Ed Balls replied that there was nothing.

Looks like we’ve slept in again 172

Posted on March 19, 2015 by

Sometimes the UK media is so soul-crushingly moronic, readers, that it’s hard to get out of bed in the morning. Nevertheless, we’re pretty sure we haven’t nodded off and woken up in 2017, so today’s papers must be even more idiotic than usual.

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A close call 201

Posted on March 18, 2015 by

The Daily Record, five days before the independence referendum:

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The Times, earlier this month:

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Phew! Thank goodness for that No vote, eh readers?

A little more application 120

Posted on March 18, 2015 by

Alert followers of our Twitter account will already know this, but we figured we better tell everyone else too. Wings now has a handy little app for Android mobile phones and tablets. Knocked up by a kind reader, it’s nothing more than the website with the addition of automatic notifications every time there’s a new post, so you need never miss an article. You can download it for free by clicking the image.

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However, in the light of our wildly successful fundraiser, a more full-featured (but still free) app for both Android and iOS is now high on our priorities list. So we’d like to know what you’d want to see in it.

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A question for the Labour Party 243

Posted on March 17, 2015 by

From a piece on Labour’s welfare shadow Rachel Reeves in today’s Guardian.

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So… who DOES represent those people, then?

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