Bureaucrats in the saddle 36
Posted on
January 07, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
A Labour case for Yes 109
Posted on
January 07, 2014 by
Allan Grogan
It should come as a surprise to nobody that yet another senior Labour figure has come out for independence. It’s more of a surprise that anyone should be surprised.
Much of the credit for that must go to the “Better Together” campaign, who with the extensive help of the Scottish media have done an excellent job of portraying the independence campaign as an SNP-only obsession. Yet that picture belies the real benefits that independence can bring the Labour Party in Scotland.
Another blackout 111
Posted on
January 07, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We’re starting to think that we might need to see a medical professional, readers. Things keep happening that we have no recollection of whatsoever. First there was this (still-unsolved) mystery yesterday, and now there’s this:
Wait, what?
The best of both worlds 80
Posted on
January 06, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
It’s only January 6, but the 2014 satire bar just got set pretty high:
Frustration in Parliament 68
Posted on
January 06, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
What did we miss? 98
Posted on
January 06, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
It’s our own fault for reading a Brian Monteith column in the Scotsman, but:
Hang on – Alex Salmond did what now? As far as we know, if you’re on the Scottish electoral register you get a vote in the referendum. What happened? Which “tens of thousands of people” are we talking about here? Shouldn’t this have been in the news or something? We hate trying to catch up after the holidays.
Muddying the waters 60
Posted on
January 06, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We were as perplexed as anyone by the bizarre YouGov poll commissioned by “Better Together” and released today, which reveals that the status quo they’re so strenuously campaigning for is the least popular constitutional option among Scots. As there’s no “more powers” option on the referendum ballot paper, and the official No campaign can neither define any such option nor pledge to implement one, it’s hard to understand what they get from asking a three-choice question about a two-choice vote.
Indeed, the survey’s result – 32% “more devolution”, 30% independence, 29% status quo – actually gives a higher Yes figure than some recent two-option polls. So what on Earth can the No camp be thinking?
Borrowing Britain 51
Posted on
January 06, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
It’s one of the weirder aspects of the independence debate that the No campaign constantly shrieks about how an independent Scotland might run a deficit, as if that was some sort of unusual and terrifying state unique to Scotland. So we thought it might be handy to keep this clip from today’s BBC Breakfast here for future reference.
In all loyalty to the Crown 121
Posted on
January 05, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Continuing our daily serialisation of HJ Paton’s fascinating 1968 book “The Claim Of Scotland”, courtesy of splendidly alert and dedicated reader Wilma Watts.
The No campaign for dummies 71
Posted on
January 05, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
“Better Together” website, May 2013:
History and legend 114
Posted on
January 04, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Quotes Of The Year 2013: Box Set 48
Posted on
January 04, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We nearly killed ourselves this week compiling twelve “quotes of the year” articles for December 30 and 31, which required ploughing through over a THOUSAND posts (1,170 to be precise) looking for interesting or amusing word-nuggets. Unfortunately, everyone was on holiday or out having a good time, so hardly anybody read them.
So we’ve put them all together in a single ridiculously huge mega-post to give everyone who only reads the most recent article a chance to catch up. We’re nice that way.
And then on Monday, when we’ve all finally got back to having some sort of vague idea what day of the week it is again, 2014 starts in earnest.
