The ambulance chasers 302
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January 11, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
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The art of the filibuster 249
Posted on
January 10, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
This is what a man who REALLY doesn’t want to answer a question looks like.
The shifting foundations 201
Posted on
January 08, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
As we noted on Tuesday, Scottish Labour’s opening election salvo for 2016 has been to blame the Scottish Government for unaffordable house prices.
Of the 450 most obvious flaws in that argument, not least the extraordinary efforts a 13-year Labour government went to to keep the housing bubble inflated, the one that caught our eye was that in the past three years we were regularly told of one thing that definitely WOULD bring prices down dramatically, but which Labour pathologically fought every step of the way.
The judgement of silence 220
Posted on
January 06, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We suppose we shouldn’t technically be surprised that today’s newspapers carry no analysis whatsoever of Kezia Dugdale’s big speech yesterday detailing Scottish Labour’s first big election pledge – a £6000 handout to first-time home buyers.
After all, current polling suggests Scottish Labour have about as much chance of exerting any influence in the next Scottish Parliament as Lemmy has of posthumously winning the Eurovision Song Contest, so it doesn’t really matter if Kezia Dugdale promises every voter a free unicorn made of diamonds and glitter.
Still, if only for the mental exercise, it’s worth taking a look in detail.
Kezia For Independence 149
Posted on
January 05, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The tweets below are all genuine, and taken from the Scottish Labour Twitter account earlier today during its live-tweeting of Kezia Dugdale’s speech. We’ve rarely heard a more compelling and concise argument for a Yes vote. We take our hats off to her.
Clickbait corner 68
Posted on
January 05, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
It’s always good to see someone take a strong moral stand.
When indeed, eh?
The sewer press 261
Posted on
January 05, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
So, this appeared in the Herald today:
And that’s a problem, because it’s a complete and utter lie.
Meet the new year, same as the old year 94
Posted on
January 05, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
As politics wakes up from the holidays, any readers still bothering to gaze at the pages of the Scottish media could be forgiven for a crushing sense of deja vu.
In more senses than one.
Answers without words 167
Posted on
January 02, 2016 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We tweeted this proposition last night (the quote comes from a blog post yesterday by Scottish Labour madcase and all-round comedy relief Ian Smart):
We thought you might enjoy some of the responses as much as we did.
The anatomy of a smear 138
Posted on
December 28, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The Scottish Daily Mail, which alongside its Sunday sister paper is spending the festive period engaged in an “SNP BAD!” frenzy – attacking the party over everything from foxhunting to the brutal Stalinist suppression of free speech to using taxpayers’ money to send people Christmas cards – today runs the same story across a news page, a comment column and an editorial leader:
Let’s take a closer look.
BREAKING NEWS 126
Posted on
December 28, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Bad wolf baying 268
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December 26, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The Christmas truce on social media ended unusually early this year as Magnus Gardham, the political editor of the Herald, filed a column which had all the hallmarks of a man who’d overdone the sprouts and redirected the usual outcome of such an error out of his mouth rather than the other end of his digestive tract.
Backed up with a series of borderline-trolling tweets from his Herald colleague David Leask (who ambitiously referred to Gardham as a “genius”), the piece triggered a mild stushie on Twitter which we fully expect to see written up in tomorrow’s papers as “VILE CYBERNATS IN ABUSE STORM”, because it’s Christmas and you’ve got to fill pages with something.
