Images and stereotypes 32
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January 14, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
On tenterhooks 40
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January 14, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We’re quite keen to peruse the results of this poll, which was conducted a few days ago by YouGov alongside their World War 1 one, but hasn’t yet published.
We got in touch, but the company was unable to tell us when, or whether, the responses to this question (and some others about independence, along with some on Welsh education) would be made public. It doesn’t seem like the kind of question that would be particularly useful as a piece of private polling, so keep your eyes peeled.
We were going to be angry 112
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January 14, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
…about the shameful, despicable sectarian comments by TV celebrity and occasional politician George Galloway in an Edinburgh Evening News article today, about how he’s been refused permission by West Lothian Council to put on his anti-independence “Just Say Naw” roadshow at a municipal venue in Livingston.
But then we kept reading, because we don’t like to go off half-cocked without getting the full story, and were richly rewarded for our effort by a magnificently deadpan line from the paper’s reporter. We’ve unsubtly bolded it for you below.
Down on Baker Street 31
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January 14, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
John Crace, the Guardian, 14 Jan 2014:
British politics: elementary.
Always crashing in the same car 80
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January 14, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
A must-view for those of you who missed last night’s Scotland Tonight. Watch and marvel (mainly from 2m 28s) as a man falls apart in front of your eyes, reduced to a babbling, incoherent shambles by a calm, eloquent gent in a sharp tweed suit.
Our favourite bit is the desperate, plaintive “Just ask Alistair Darling!” at the end.
50 answers for the No campaign 32
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January 13, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
(Now to questions typed by someone with a rudimentary command of written English.)
Because as we know “Better Together” will have quite a lot of trouble coming up with any coherent replies, we’ve had a bash ourselves while we wait for them to get started.
Quoted for truth #42 49
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January 13, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
“Herald View”, the Sunday Herald, 12 Jan 2014:
However, they cannot secure these protections under the current constitutional arrangements.”
Migration and unemployment 15
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January 13, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Taking our best shot 126
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January 13, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
This is going to be tough. Alistair Carmichael’s list of the “top 20” reasons for staying in the UK, issued today, is a document so farcical it’s actually quite hard to analyse.
It’s difficult to react to it in a rational manner, because the rational response is a torrent of angry invective at having one’s intelligence so heinously and crassly insulted. And going for the satire angle isn’t easy either, because it’s quite tricky to think of anything more ridiculous or idiotic than some of the claims the Secretary of State for Portsmouth makes. Striving as ever for balance, then, this is the best we can do.
Wanting what you can’t have 36
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January 13, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Yesterday’s Scotland on Sunday took a slightly strange angle on the results of a social-attitudes survey conducted by the thinktank “British Future” last month.
…or put another way, MORE than half of them DON’T believe that. But anyway.
Night bombing 201
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January 12, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Now here’s an explosive thing to drop at 10 o’clock on a Sunday night.
Click the image to read the full Financial Times story. Did the game just change?
The Highlands and islands 42
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January 12, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
