Look on down from the Bridge 184
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December 11, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
A bad case of the DTs 119
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December 09, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Two countries 251
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December 08, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Earlier this year, a Secretary of State in Her Majesty’s Government leaked an untrue memo to the press, with the intention of undermining the democratically-elected First Minister of Scotland and damaging her party in an imminent general election. He then went on national TV and lied about doing so, in order to protect his own reputation.
The newspaper he leaked the smear to printed it without making the slightest attempt to ascertain its veracity, for which it was nominated for an award (even after having been strongly censured by the press complaints watchdog). The “journalist” involved has never retracted or apologised for the story. Others have defended it.
The minister’s colleagues and other opposition politicians gleefully leapt on the smear and propagated it, mostly failing to retract their accusations after they were shown to have been false. Others shrugged that it was normal and fine for politicians to tell “brazen” lies and that complaining about it was “bullying”.
These facts are not in dispute. Tomorrow morning we’ll find out what they mean.
A tale of two situations 107
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November 30, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
To mark the day that we both appeared in the Herald’s “Power 100” list of “The leading Scots who shape our lives” – and she had another go at trolling us – we’d like to dedicate this wonderful tune sincerely to the popular children’s author JK Rowling:
We’ll try to understand her problems more sensitively in future.
Crowdfunder of the day 159
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November 20, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We’ve been pondering this week whether or not to hold a quick fundraiser to pay the £750 fine levied on us recently by the Electoral Commission for being a bit late with some indyref paperwork, readers.
(Our feeling is that there’s still plenty money left in the Wings War Chest from this year’s big crowdfunder, but lots of people have specifically asked for one for the fine, mainly to make a point to both the Commission and the little army of Unionist trolls who almost exploded with glee when the news came out late last month.)
But we’re not sure we can compete with this.
New World Irony Champion 128
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November 16, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
A deliberate vagueness 91
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November 14, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
When two and two make anything you like 182
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November 07, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
When it comes to Scottish Labour’s great brainwave about “restoring” Tory tax-credit cuts, the madness just won’t stop. Here’s Magnus Gardham, formerly political editor of Scotland’s staunchest Labour paper the Daily Record, in the Herald today:
Read that one over a few times.
Through the fresh looking glass 76
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November 06, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
It’s been such an exciting, action-packed week for Scottish Labour since a dynamic and thrusting PPB launched the 2015 branch-office conference that we worried there might be a danger people had forgotten it already. So we’ve brought it back for a curtain call, in a version a bit more appropriate for what remains of their core vote.
Never mind the zeitgeist, feel the width.
Scottish Labour Party Of The Day 254
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November 03, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Premature evacuation 69
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November 02, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Gordon Brown, last seen wailing that The Vow had been “betrayed”, appears to have jumped ship a little early when it came to changing his position on it for what by our count is the fourth or fifth time so far.
Your time is precious 197
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October 31, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Kezia Dugdale spoke for almost exactly 45 minutes to the Scottish Labour conference in Perth today. But we know you’re busy people who don’t want to sit through all of that, and that you trust us to endure it on your behalf so that we can sift through it and present you with only the important bits.
So we recorded the whole thing, then edited out all the bits that were just “SNP BAD” (that one’s a real time-saver), all the empty rhetoric, all the non-specific pledges to make everything be cuddly and fabulous, and all the uncosted, impractical, half-baked policy ideas that have no hope of ever being put into practice.
In the end we got it down to under 10 minutes.
No need to thank us. It’s what we do.
