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Well, you should know, we suppose 125

Posted on March 22, 2015 by

…having just spent the last three years in bed with them.

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Zounds, the irony.

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To break your walls 257

Posted on March 10, 2015 by

We’ve only just recently begun checking out the English edition of the Sun to see what appears in it that’s mysteriously excised from the Scottish one, readers.

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Perhaps we should have started sooner.

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Scotland’s Changing 191

Posted on March 09, 2015 by

New leaflet dropping through letterboxes all over Scotland this week.

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Bit harsh.

Here, kitty kitty kitty 121

Posted on March 07, 2015 by

We were trying to think what this picture from today reminded us of.

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Nozin’ Aroun’ 127

Posted on March 03, 2015 by

We love it when the UK government tries to get down with the kids.

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The Smiths broke up in 1987.

Asking for it 573

Posted on March 01, 2015 by

Because this is an actual thing that’s happening.

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Labour reaches out to voters again 135

Posted on February 28, 2015 by

Scottish Labour MEP David Martin chats to the audience about TTIP.

It’s what he would have wanted 137

Posted on February 27, 2015 by

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Daily Record Spot The Truth Competition 123

Posted on February 26, 2015 by

Can you find the Daily Record’s prominent Smith Commission correction on the front page of its website today, readers? Take your time – it’s on there, we promise you.

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Unfortunate error proves contagious 136

Posted on February 25, 2015 by

The gift that keeps on giving.

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Mr McNeill still hasn’t publicly explained how he came to be telling Labour supporters to vote Tory and let the Conservatives gain four seats on Labour, but we assume his private reasons for his “Twitter mistake” must have been really really good to win over the “comrades” in such a short space of time, so that’s nice.

The trouble is, he’s not alone.

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A couple of new ones 169

Posted on February 19, 2015 by

These are starting to get a bit surreal.

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“Vote Labour, get SNP!”

voteukipgetunions

“Vote UKIP, get trade unions!”

We’ve added them to the list. Keep ’em peeled, folks!

Making it up as you go along 143

Posted on February 18, 2015 by

This week Scottish Labour quietly abandoned their “biggest party forms the government” election campaign after it was comprehensively debunked by this site and, belatedly, the mainstream media. An alert reader reminded us this evening of how the party wasn’t always so attached to the rules.

Because back in 2007, when Labour was neither the biggest party nor the incumbent administration, it had a damn good try at forming the government anyway.

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