The foreign danger 170
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June 22, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
They are not like us 162
Posted on
June 22, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
This is from today’s Scottish Sun. (Click to enlarge.)
Murdo Fraser actually thinks that houses getting 25% more expensive while wages grow by just 0.7% is a GOOD thing. He really believes that “It’ll cost an extra £23,000 to buy a house if you vote No” is a plus point for staying in the UK.
That’s all we’ve got on that one, folks.
The false borders 281
Posted on
June 21, 2014 by
Adam Learmonth
The second weekend in June played host to the Selkirk Common Riding, the oldest of the Ridings events in the Scottish Borders. For the uninitiated, this centuries-old tradition incorporates a series of festivities in the town, the centrepiece of which is a cavalcade of several hundred horses galloping around the perimeter of the Royal Burgh, ensuring the town’s ancient boundaries are in good order (ie that no pesky Sassenachs have invaded the territory).
Despite being raised in the nearby village of Ashkirk and attending Selkirk High School, I was never interested in the Riding. Even in primary school whilst being taught the lyrics to “Auld Selkirk” and “Hail Smilin Morn” it didn’t seem relevant – I only went to my first ride-out last year because my Polish girlfriend was intrigued.
That’s when the penny dropped.
The short walk to democracy 109
Posted on
June 21, 2014 by
Chris Cairns
(Story, just in case you missed it in this week’s media “cybernat” horror orgy.)
Hello, Daily Mail readers! 159
Posted on
June 21, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
And welcome. If you’ve come to our humble little site to see the nasty man at the head of the “highly controversial cyber organisation” described in this hilarious article, there’s a couple of things you should probably know. Because – and we apologise if this comes as a shock to you – the Daily Mail doesn’t always tell the truth.
Don’t tell them your name, Pike 297
Posted on
June 20, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
If you’re not on Twitter, readers, you’ve been missing ALL the fun today.
Above are just the creepiest two of a series of tweets posted this morning by “social justice campaigner” Mike Dailly of the Govan Law Centre – previously known to those of this parish – to the effect that he’d really rather prefer if people stopped following my personal Twitter account, @RevStu, because I was so all-around awful.
It didn’t work out quite as well as he’d hoped.
Sunset for scaremongers 395
Posted on
June 20, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Europe Direct is the official information service of the EU. A reader recently contacted them with a query. Their reply seems significant. We’ll let you read it for yourself.
When you get there 104
Posted on
June 20, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
“…make sure you keep a place by your side for us.”
Now that’s what we call lovebombing.
Good faith and bad practice 160
Posted on
June 20, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The other day we highlighted a really good piece in the Scottish Sun, which while not perfect was a pretty decent stab at the sort of evidence-based journalism Scotland’s media should have been doing throughout the referendum campaign.
Today, not so much.
The Jim Murphy Fan Club 373
Posted on
June 19, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Labour MP and nuclear weapon enthusiast Jim Murphy is out and about this week, flitting bat-like across Scotland as part of his “100 Corners” tour where he stands on a box and tells wide-eyed Ordinary Members Of The Public ™ about the splendour of the union. Some of Jim’s pals have been proudly tweeting shots of the packed crowds.
But our eagle-eyed viewers couldn’t help spotting something.
Quoted for Nazis, again 158
Posted on
June 19, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Kerry Gill in the Scottish Daily Express, 19 June 2014:
Yes, you really did read that in a “Scottish” national newspaper, folks: the BBC should be biased against independence because it was biased against the Nazis. You can go ahead and follow that wee gem through to its logical conclusion yourself.
The missing questions 416
Posted on
June 19, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
A number of papers today report a manufactured furore concerning some comments we made on Twitter a couple of days ago about Tory MSP Alex Johnstone while watching Scotland Tonight. The Herald, astonishingly, makes it the second-lead story on its website, with political editor Magnus Gardham gleefully seizing the opportunity to stick the boot in after being the subject of much criticism on this site.
The Times also has a large piece about the tweet and it gets a quarter page in the Daily Mail, while the Scotsman’s coverage is more muted – which is perhaps out of embarrassment at coming on the same day the paper had to grudgingly publish a belated correction and “apology” for two grotesque and utterly false smears about us last week. Even Holyrood Magazine gets in on the act, as does the Courier.
That’s all fine and good. Getting monstered by Unionist newspapers isn’t exactly a new experience for us, after all. But there’s something odd about all of the stories.
