Sorry, readers 139
Posted on
November 03, 2013 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
This is why you’ve had no posts today.
Meet Skye, Islay, Rona, Shuna, Cara and Jura. They’ll be staying.
Frozen at zero 101
Posted on
November 03, 2013 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
So I guess now we know why Ed Miliband isn’t too bothered about whether energy companies whack their prices up before and after his 16-month “price freeze” or not.
Because we’re paying his bill either way.
Ed Miliband’s parliamentary salary is approximately £140,000. Plus expenses.
The Great Gingerbread Robbery 216
Posted on
November 02, 2013 by
Paul Kavanagh
When you’re a full time carer, managing to get out for an hour or so to the local branch of Morrisons to get the weekly shopping counts as ‘quality me time’. It allows me to stock up on favourite munchies and comfort food. I like a wee slice of Kirriemuir gingerbread, slathered with butter. The other half enjoys a thick slab of it in a bowl, covered in Devon custard with a dollop of double cream. Bugger the cholesterol.
But the other day there was none in the usual aisle, just a pile of Christmas cakes.
I asked a guy stocking shelves where they’d moved it to. He apologised, and told me there wasn’t any in stock. All the ordering is done by Head Office down in England he said, and they’d sent instructions that no more would be ordered until the New Year in order to make space for piles of Christmas cake. In October.
Who eats Christmas cake in October anyway?
The dirty game 422
Posted on
November 02, 2013 by
Dave McEwan Hill
“There’ll be nae books or pencils fur Our Lady’s High School if the SNP gets in here.”
I heard those words first-hand at a door in Motherwell some years ago. But let me give you some context first. Lots of people reading this in parts of Scotland will have no idea about what I’m about to describe here so I’d better establish my credentials and provide some background.
Experimental trailer 43
Posted on
November 01, 2013 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Tune in at 8am tomorrow for more.
That time of the month 135
Posted on
November 01, 2013 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
It’s the 1st of November and we almost forgot to do a stats post. Tch, eh?
We’re calling one of those numbers another landmark.
Scorched Ayrth 174
Posted on
November 01, 2013 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We’re really, really sorry about that headline, on several levels.
But wait until you see what this one’s about.
It’s a trap! 106
Posted on
November 01, 2013 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Blair McDougall, director of “Better Together”, Dundee University, 30 October 2013:
You heard it straight from the horse’s – well, let’s be kind and say “mouth”, folks.
Revolution for lazy people 77
Posted on
October 31, 2013 by
Julie McDowall
Oh, I was irritating when I was 15.
On our way to school, my friends would stop at Ian’s Newsagents and scatter their pocket money on the counter to work out how many fizzy cola bottles and packets of Space Raiders they could get. I’d do the same, but mine would have a copy of The New Statesman thrown in too.
Our man at the scene 190
Posted on
October 31, 2013 by
Andrew Morton
Hello, I’m Andrew. Rather than follow my desires and mingle with the true believers at the Yes Scotland meeting in Penicuik last night, I decided to expand my horizons and instead attended the launch of Better Together Musselburgh at the Brunton Hall.
My first surprise was to discover that the meeting was being chaired by a neighbour of mine. I sloped off to the back of the hall to keep a low profile.
Spending £20 to save a tenner 81
Posted on
October 31, 2013 by
Scott Minto
This week it was claimed by Stuart Adam, senior economic researcher at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), that taxes would have to rise almost 14% in an independent Scotland, if they were the sole method used to fill the Scottish budget deficit.
It’s a dramatic headline, for sure. But is it an accurate reflection on the relative finances of an independent Scotland and one that remained part of the United Kingdom? As ever, you have to dig a little deeper to find out what’s really going on.
