We’ve already had a message from the future today. Here’s one from 101 years ago.
Click to see the full story, and heed the tale well, jam-tomorrow fans.
Earlier today, “Better Together” put out this bizarre graphic, before hastily deleting it.
At the time of writing it hasn’t reappeared on their Facebook page. We’re not sure why it was pulled – perhaps they were just embarrassed by the sheer absurdity of this latest “too wee, too poor, too stupid effort”, or the ease with which Yes supporters could mock it as a claim that an independent Scotland wouldn’t be able to afford buildings more than two storeys high.
Or maybe it was something a little more fundamental.
Because this is a real thing that really happened today.
If you’ve been affected by any issues raised in the independence debate, do write in.
Knock yourselves out, folks. But keep it clean, okay? We had a big dinner.
Tune in at 8am tomorrow for more.
With the sickening developments at Grangemouth understandably dominating the news, readers perhaps won’t have fallen quite so far off their seats with surprise at the Scottish media’s total failure to so far breathe a single word about “Better Together” apparently running an illegal fundraising lottery.
(After all, you can’t have two stories in one newspaper – that would be madness.)
And besides, the revelation – which merely, after all, involves several prominent MPs and MSPs on the board of the No campaign in what would be criminal activity, and not for the first time – is so trivial that it’s the kind of thing no self-respecting newspaper would bother running even on a slow day anyway, right?
It’s around this point that we usually like to cue an alert reader.
The Spectator: as subtle as it is classy.
And this one might just take the entire cake stand and banana hanger.
It’s former Tory MP and junior minister Edwina Currie, speaking about someone called “Alex Salmon” on Radio 5’s Stephen Nolan show on Saturday. (From 2h 16m on that iPlayer link.) We do recommend listening to all six-and-a-half minutes. It sets a very high standard from the off, but somehow maintains it the whole way through. Enjoy.
(with apologies to the author of The Ballad of Sir Patrick Spens, and with thanks to Johann Lamont for the virus)
Next year, you can decide to always get the government you vote for.
Or you can pick one of these three. Your call.
Spotted by an alert reader in the Nike shop in Livingston.
Nice to see people getting ready.
Wings Over Scotland is a thing that exists.
