When you’ve been watching Scotland playing football for 50 years of your life, you become accustomed to disappointment. You expect disappointment. Anything better than disappointment becomes a bonus.
Having solved cat hunger in Greece, the tireless Holiday Boy has now turned his hand to addressing Scotland’s crippling golfing shortage, so we’ve got a different sort of cartoon again for you this weekend.
The clip below is from a 1981 arcade videogame called Venture, by Exidy, in which you play a cheerful character called Winky on a mission to loot treasure from a series of monster-infested dungeons.
For the purposes of this article the treasure in the room above, which takes the form of a castle tower, represents Scottish politics. The room itself is the Union.
The SNP released their general election manifesto today. We’re not going to link you to it, because we don’t want to be responsible for wasting your time. This is everything it has to say on the party’s (cough) strategy for achieving independence.
It deserves much, much less respect than we’re giving it. Tomorrow, ice lolly reviews.
I’m a professional community organiser, and a tenant and housing activist for some 20 years. I saw the old Scottish Tenants Organisation get smashed by Jack McConnell’s government to make way for council housing privatisation, which in Glasgow created the Glasgow Housing Association.
I’ve long wanted to rebuild a national body to give housing schemes a political voice and to push to end the housing crisis. That’s why I got involved with Living Rent, organising my community to become their first branch. Little did I know that would lead to a brush with crazed gender ideology, and see Queer Theory used to try to destroy it.
We’re still trying not to pay attention to the election because it’s so tedious and awful and pointless, but this is worth putting on the record because it’s in The National and otherwise nobody’s going to read it.
Holiday Boy has of course chosen the general election campaign to spend the next three weeks feeding stray cats somewhere sunny, so here’s a cartoon by the brilliant webcomicname that summarises the Baillie Gifford story for anyone joining us late.
January 2018, with no general election due for four and a half years: “I very rarely talk about Scottish independence in the chamber, because I talk about things that matter”
June 2024, with an election in four weeks and a £91,346 salary, expenses and pension at stake: “ROBERT THE BRUCE! BANNOCKBURN! DECLARATION OF ARBROATH! FLOWER OF SCOTLAND! FREEEEEEEEEDOOOOOOMMMM!”
Mac on Safeguarding Is Not Right-Wing: “What I always found interesting was that Prince Charles at the time asked Saville to be marriage counsellor between him…” Jan 10, 10:43
Mac on Safeguarding Is Not Right-Wing: “Thatcher you say… (This is from the Daily Heil so I’ll not link it.) “Margaret Thatcher made repeated attempts to…” Jan 10, 10:34
Alf Baird on Eyes Full Of Beams: “Colonialism involves various acts of genocide that Scots have been and still remain subject to. Clearances; evictions; imperial re-settlement programs.…” Jan 10, 10:30
Mark Beggan on Eyes Full Of Beams: “That applies to all men of that mentality. No matter where in this world a woman gave them life.” Jan 10, 10:30
gregor on Eyes Full Of Beams: “Humza Yousaf, quotes: “A lot of young men, in particular from within our community, believe in objectifying women – Especially…” Jan 10, 10:11
Mac on Eyes Full Of Beams: “Article III The following acts shall be punishable: (a) Genocide; (b) Conspiracy to commit genocide ; (c) Direct and public…” Jan 10, 10:06
Mia on Safeguarding Is Not Right-Wing: ““What a snake Starmer is, appearing at every dark moment in UK history over the last few decades” Absolutely. But…” Jan 10, 10:04
Mark Beggan on Eyes Full Of Beams: “So if I don’t agree with the middle east thing does that make me a Unionist or a tractor.” Jan 10, 10:03
gregor on Eyes Full Of Beams: “You’ll be apologising to my face (in person), Wings forum, as well as making a national apology. #Promise” Jan 10, 09:51
Mac on Eyes Full Of Beams: ““…gen0cide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical,…” Jan 10, 09:49
gregor on Eyes Full Of Beams: “Forget: “To not remember to do something: Don’t forget to lock the door.”: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/forget #NoEsacpe” Jan 10, 09:46
gregor on Eyes Full Of Beams: “I love you Chas (filthy scumbag) Best gift ever (as dumb as it gets:)” Jan 10, 09:43
gregor on Eyes Full Of Beams: “Elon Musk: “What is he hiding?”: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1877631445746733200” Jan 10, 09:41
Mac on Eyes Full Of Beams: “The UN treaty on gen0cide is short and it is an easy read…. https://treaties.un.org/doc/publication/unts/volume%2078/volume-78-i-1021-english.pdf No. 1021. CONVENTION1 ON THE PREVENTION…” Jan 10, 09:39
Mark Beggan on Eyes Full Of Beams: “Old Chinese Proverbs Number 15. People who spend time in other peoples business find that their own business gos bankrupt” Jan 10, 09:25
Effijy on Eyes Full Of Beams: “Off topic but I never knew that everywhere in the U.K. gets a Pensioner’s bonus payment of £25 when 7…” Jan 10, 09:22
Chas on Eyes Full Of Beams: “It appears that the nurses in the psychiatric ward forgot to lock the doors to the computer room again. Gregor…” Jan 10, 09:09
Mac on Safeguarding Is Not Right-Wing: “If they deny us an inquiry then we all MUST assume the worst. That is the only correct response. What…” Jan 10, 09:06
Breeks on Eyes Full Of Beams: “Can’t help noticing that’s the 20th Century he’s referring to… I suspect the yardstick needs “recalibrated” now. As the saying…” Jan 10, 08:48
Mia on Safeguarding Is Not Right-Wing: ““The far left are acting against the people of the country” It is not just the far left. It is…” Jan 10, 08:43
Mia on Safeguarding Is Not Right-Wing: ““The Equality Act 2010 protects individuals from discrimination based on the fundamental premise that we are all equal under the…” Jan 10, 08:36
Mark Beggan on Eyes Full Of Beams: “No matter what the Rev exposes, investigates, etc. The whining wokes just got to get the Palestine point in. The…” Jan 10, 08:29
Stranger on Eyes Full Of Beams: “He was a refugee who was hunted for the accident of his birth. He’s talking about the opposite of Zionism…” Jan 10, 08:18
Mia on Safeguarding Is Not Right-Wing: ““They failed repeatedly and were treated like collateral damage in a system that became too broken to fix. This is…” Jan 10, 08:17
Mark Beggan on Eyes Full Of Beams: “When was Pro- somewhere in the Middle East, turn up every week illegally, disturb the peace. All paid for by…” Jan 10, 08:12
Mark Beggan on Eyes Full Of Beams: “You sick little fuck. Piss off” Jan 10, 08:05
Mia on Safeguarding Is Not Right-Wing: ““Yet, the evidence has been in front of us for years – so why has immediate action to ensure the…” Jan 10, 08:03
The Flying Iron of Doom on Eyes Full Of Beams: “In the interests of saving everyone’s sanity I will drop the important part of the document here. Quite how relevant…” Jan 10, 07:44
Muscleguy on Safeguarding Is Not Right-Wing: “Meanwhile 4 Romanians including one woman are being prosecuted by Tayside Police for acting as a rape gang. We need…” Jan 10, 07:36
