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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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Another late entry 107

Posted on October 21, 2013 by

And this one might just take the entire cake stand and banana hanger.

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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.

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The Ballad Of Naughty Jim 37

Posted on October 20, 2013 by

(with apologies to the author of The Ballad of Sir Patrick Spens, and with thanks to Johann Lamont for the virus)  

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You have a choice 60

Posted on October 18, 2013 by

Next year, you can decide to always get the government you vote for.

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Or you can pick one of these three. Your call.

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This time next year 98

Posted on October 17, 2013 by

Spotted by an alert reader in the Nike shop in Livingston.

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Nice to see people getting ready.

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Jackie Baillie’s pseudonym discovered 77

Posted on October 09, 2013 by

It’s funny what people think when they only read the Daily Express.

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(Click image for source.)

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Next time we’ll listen 43

Posted on October 08, 2013 by

We just caught up on last night’s Newsnight Scotland ahead of tonight’s episode. Now that we have, we rather wish we’d heeded this advice from the PS3 iPlayer.

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It’s like it knew.

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For Sidney Bechet 110

Posted on October 06, 2013 by

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Stupidity beyond parody 120

Posted on October 04, 2013 by

Not for the first time, we had to check that this really came from “Better Together”, not some cybernat satire site, but again it’s bona fide hypocrisy par excellence.

This really is what the No camp is trying to shovel, in the guise of a pseudo-socialist appeal made in the name of three political parties in hock to big business up to their eyeballs, in a campaign funded chiefly by a multi-millionaire oil executive with links to Saddam Hussein and the genocidal Serbian war criminal Arkan.

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What, the big banks that, under the watchful eye of the Union and successive Westminster governments, were allowed such free rein for their dodgy dealings that they almost destroyed the entire UK economy, for which nobody’s ever been held to account, and which are still pocketing billions of pounds of our money in bonuses every year even though they’re owned by the taxpayer?

THOSE really big banks?

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The death of irony 93

Posted on October 01, 2013 by

Part 1: Scottish Labour – yes, Scottish Labour – have a go at another party for (get this) an insufficiently prominent leader. No, we’re not making that up. The party led by Johann Lamont just slagged someone off for not being seen in public enough. It’s possibly the first time they’ve ever accused Alex Salmond of underpromoting himself.

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A welcome home 29

Posted on September 28, 2013 by

Nice of them to lay this on today.

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