108 Days Later 108
Posted on
January 20, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Claimed in full 54
Posted on
January 20, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Much gratitude tonight to alert reader “Albamac”, who’s not only compiled the whole of “The Claim Of Scotland” into a single very small (1MB), easy-download PDF file but has converted it in the process into one with cut-and-pasteable text for quotability. We’ve uploaded it to the Repository, and you can also download it from this direct link.
Big love once again too to Wilma Watts who made our serialisation possible in the first place, and to the sadly-deceased Herbert James Paton for writing a book that for the most part could have been released yesterday. We highly recommend it as a starting point for any undecideds you know who might not want to jump straight into the debate with something as openly partisan as this site. Having read it, we suspect they’ll be hungry for more truth, and then you can send them our way.
Casting the clout 71
Posted on
January 20, 2014 by
Andrew Leslie
The latest in the UK government’s “Scotland Analysis” series of independence briefing papers was released this week on the back of William Hague’s visit to Glasgow.
At 119 pages, the EU and International Issues paper is nobody’s idea of a slim pamphlet, but it’s remarkably light on meaty content.
When it’s horrible being right 59
Posted on
January 20, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Me, writing in April 2010, before there was a Wings Over Scotland:
Once in a while it’d be nice to get it completely wrong.
Good morning, Britain 68
Posted on
January 20, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Something to look forward to 32
Posted on
January 19, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
#ukok #bettertogether
Fairness In The First Year 88
Posted on
January 19, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
For those of you wanting to look at the report on broadcasting bias from the University of the West of Scotland, we’ve uploaded it to the Repository, and you can also grab it directly from this link. Thanks to the alert readers who sent it in.
The illegitimacy klaxon 76
Posted on
January 19, 2014 by
James Kelly
We doubt if anyone is going to faint with amazement from the discovery that an academic study has found TV news coverage of the independence debate was biased against the Yes side by a 3-2 margin between September 2012 and September 2013.
But what’s useful about the University of West of Scotland research is that it sets out the exact nature of the various types of biases, and gives a precise number for how many times each type occurred. This moves us on considerably, because complaints can no longer be dismissed as nothing more than (to misquote Derek Bateman) the paranoia of nationalists obsessing over how many times Jackie Bird raises her left eyebrow while reading from an autocue.
Subsidy junkies 101
Posted on
January 19, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We can’t be the only people, surely, to find the latest “Better Together” gambit one of their strangest yet. Never mind the made-up figures or the spurious assertions or their usual habit of having headline amounts which use cumulative sums over many years to make numbers sound bigger. Just look at the barely-concealed subtext here:
“Don’t leave the UK, or you’ll have to give your money to the English! Eurgh!”
Has the lovebombing started yet? 181
Posted on
January 18, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Peter Hitchens in the Daily Mail, just discovered:
God DAMN it! Who knew we were just the unwitting dupes of the Belgians all along?
The classic double whammy 145
Posted on
January 18, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Step 1: Write an offensive, provocative piece of trollbait for the Daily Mail, describing your opponents as “kilted bum-barers who bellow ‘freedom’ whenever an English person hoves into view” and suggesting that a Yes vote is an abdication of morality.
(If you can then somehow get the Guardian to reprint it, bonus!)
Step 2: Whine like a baby when you get the response you wanted all along.
Panic stations 115
Posted on
January 18, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
When we started the week with news of the UK government’s statement on debt, we wondered aloud whether it would be a game-changing moment. Judging by the No camp’s reaction since then, shrieking and flailing and lashing out blindly in all directions simultaneously, our question’s been answered.
It’s been hard to keep track of it all, but we’ll have a go.
