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The Red Face Gang 93

Posted on November 29, 2013 by

We saw this graphic on the “Better Together” website yesterday, but we dismissed it as uninteresting even by their playground-propaganda standards, amounting as it does to nothing more than some startlingly feeble carping along the lines of “These are their forecasts, but we’ve made different forecasts so theirs must be wrong!”

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But an alert reader observed that it was MUCH stupider than that. Can you spot why?

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Suppressed Memory Lane 87

Posted on November 27, 2013 by

It’s been quite the week, so to celebrate smashing our all-time one-day pageviews record twice in succession, here’s a wee And Finally… bonus extra.

You’ve probably already seen this on Twitter today, after alert reader “Corstorphine Craig” knocked up an inventive graphic from some old material and sent it to us, whereupon we retweeted it and it went rather viral. But it deserves a front-page spot.

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Viewers of a certain age will of course recall how well the coal mines, Ravenscraig, Linwood and Bathgate all flourished in the safe hands of the UK when Scotland was swindled out of its Assembly despite voting in favour of it.

But as the parties of the Union and their tame media fall over themselves to rubbish the sensible, achievable vision laid out in the White Paper this week, it never hurts to remember how their scare stories usually end.

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The best answer ever 92

Posted on November 27, 2013 by

Comes at 1m 43s, courtesy of the You Couldn’t Make It Up Department:

“Let’s have a debate” – Labour’s solution to all ills.

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Our loss is England’s gain 218

Posted on November 21, 2013 by

It’s already been in the comments, and it’s all over Twitter, but it’d be remiss of us not to give as many people as possible the chance to enjoy this.

Blair McDougall’s a big Rangers fan. See if you can spot him anywhere.

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Category culture, football, scottish politics

The ghost of devo past 71

Posted on November 20, 2013 by

We’ve already had a message from the future today. Here’s one from 101 years ago.

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Click to see the full story, and heed the tale well, jam-tomorrow fans.

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Bungalow Bill 101

Posted on November 19, 2013 by

Earlier today, “Better Together” put out this bizarre graphic, before hastily deleting it.

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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.

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Whistle and I’ll come to you 129

Posted on November 13, 2013 by

Because this is a real thing that really happened today.

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If you’ve been affected by any issues raised in the independence debate, do write in.

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Return of an old friend 113

Posted on November 11, 2013 by

These pranksters have gone too far with our beloved cultural icons.

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(Story, in case you missed it.)

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Let’s have another caption competition 274

Posted on November 08, 2013 by

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Knock yourselves out, folks. But keep it clean, okay? We had a big dinner.

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Experimental trailer 43

Posted on November 01, 2013 by

Tune in at 8am tomorrow for more.

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Filter feeders 65

Posted on October 24, 2013 by

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.

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The Countdown Conundrum 170

Posted on October 23, 2013 by

The Spectator: as subtle as it is classy.

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