Put on the glasses 142
Posted on
August 11, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Saluting one of our favourite movies of all time.
(The glasses are here. Well over 100,000 downloads so far today.)
Westminster’s offer 183
Posted on
August 07, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Because you know he’s coming. Do you feel lucky, Labour voters?
Losing the rag 204
Posted on
August 03, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Here’s an extraordinary display from Labour’s Jim Murphy, still standing on an Irn Bru crate and drawing crowds of up to a dozen people (several of whom sometimes aren’t even Labour staffers) in 100 locations across Scotland. This one’s apparently Ayr.
Not only does the former Secretary of State for Scotland spend most of his time bellowing furiously despite already being the only person with a microphone, but the demented rant he embarks on when asked a question by a lady in the crowd about Gordon Brown’s disgraceful lies over organ transplants will have readers used to Mr Murphy’s normal TV persona blinking and rubbing their eyes.
Most striking, though, is his complete refusal to meet the woman’s eye at the end of his extended “SNP BAD!” outburst, in which he’d completely ignored her simple and reasonable question. Several times at the end you can see him consciously turn away from her so as not to catch her gaze, presumably out of shame.
Vote No and trust him with Scotland’s future, readers.
The formerly bonnie banks 119
Posted on
July 29, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
There’s been a small furore this week over fracking, and the possibility that the UK government could grant licences for drilling in some of Scotland’s most beautiful locations, including – astonishingly – Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park.
But in fairness, we can’t say that we weren’t warned.
Younger leopard, same spots 161
Posted on
July 28, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Our “Better Together” mole has just leaked us this exclusive extract from a new cinema advert with a re-imaged Alistair Darling listing the consequences of a Yes vote.
It’s really from the 1981 Labour conference, of course. But it’s fascinating to note that while the No camp leader’s politics may have softened somewhat over the intervening 33 years, his modus operandi hasn’t changed a bit.
The times they have a-changed 213
Posted on
July 27, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Does anyone know if Alistair Darling (left, with banner) is still a republican?
He doesn’t seem to talk about it much these days.
Box office gold 216
Posted on
July 24, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We suspect this isn’t one of the ones Mr Darling gets paid £10,000 for.
Still, only putting out 12 seats is one way to guarantee a “standing room only” crowd.
Return of the living dead 207
Posted on
July 20, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
For independence supporters of a certain age, the 1979 devolution referendum is one of the most infamous moments in Scottish history. While a wafer-thin majority of Scots voted Yes to devolution, an electoral fiddle conceived by a Labour MP meant that it didn’t happen, and part of the reason was that in effect, dead people were counted as No votes.
(We won’t go into all the details here, but basically an impossible threshold was set for turnout, and people who’d died but hadn’t yet been removed from the electoral roll were counted towards the calculation of that threshold.)
We were put in mind of it by an odd development this evening.
The game-changer 162
Posted on
July 19, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
If we’d brought Parkinson 82
Posted on
July 16, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Our mole in the No camp risked life and limb to bring us this behind-the-scenes footage of the filming of the exciting “Scotland, You’re Our Best Friend” video.
To be honest, it only confirms our suspicions.
The cataclysm continues 247
Posted on
July 10, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Only our very alertest readers are likely to recall our first brush with Azeem Ibrahim of the “Scotland Institute”, a right-wing think tank which recently came up with a report on an independent Scotland’s debt that was picked up by some of the less discerning newspapers but which we ignored for being too boring.
And we must concede fair play to the eternally attention-seeking Mr Ibrahim, because he’s come storming right back with something altogether livelier.
We’re confused about the rules again 134
Posted on
July 07, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Channel 4 has now aired its Dispatches programme about “intimidation”, in which a lot of grown adults from the cut-throat world of business whined about possible vague hints they may or may not have picked up that the Scottish Government would rather they kept quiet about independence.
The estimable Lallands Peat Worrier skewers the subject brilliantly here, so we shan’t detain ourselves further with the specifics – other than to passingly note that as Mandy Rhodes of Holyrood Magazine tweeted during the show, one of the alleged victims was so frightened and cowed into submission that he’s currently suing the Scottish Government at the European Court about something else entirely.
But there was something else that had us puzzled.
