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Colour separation 91

Posted on September 18, 2013 by

We couldn’t help but notice this new BBC referendum logo.

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We like how they’re thinking.

What if you were a party 108

Posted on September 14, 2013 by

…and nobody came?

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At Battle Mountain 66

Posted on September 13, 2013 by

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“Graeme Obree sets prone cycling speed record” – 13 September 2013

The public interest 159

Posted on September 12, 2013 by

One of the most encouraging aspects of the pro-independence movement is the strength of real grassroots activism compared to its Unionist opponents.

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So here are a couple of nice shots of a well-staffed Yes Scotland stand attracting lots of attention from students at the Glenrothes campus of Fife College recently.

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We’ve got it on tape 95

Posted on September 09, 2013 by

This is what we use to record episodes of “Call Kaye”.

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One man and his props 122

Posted on September 06, 2013 by

He’s got a fake paper!

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Rogue bloopers 100

Posted on September 04, 2013 by

Every single line a classic.

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At the end of the day 83

Posted on September 02, 2013 by

You can argue about the words. But it all comes down to this.

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The secret of comedy 146

Posted on September 01, 2013 by

Let’s end an ugly week on a fun note, shall we?

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Lonely hearts 43

Posted on August 31, 2013 by

A picture taken earlier today at Edinburgh’s Mela festival.

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In the upper half of the shot, a busy Yes Scotland tent buzzing with activists and interested members of the public. In the foreground, another forlorn “Better Together” campaigner looking around hopefully for someone – anyone – to talk to about how Scotland’s too pathetic and useless to be a country by itself.

We don’t even have the heart to mock. It must be sad.

Unionist of the week 54

Posted on August 25, 2013 by

We haven’t had one of these for a while, but it’s a peach. Phil Welsh is an official of the Unison trade union in Dundee, though we notice he’s recently removed that fact from his Twitter bio. We’ve had to block him now for associating with our hate-crazed psycho stalker, but earlier this week we were having a chat about the bedroom tax and Labour’s evictions policy when this happened.

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See below for the rest of the conversation.

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The best wee politics site in Scotland? 45

Posted on August 18, 2013 by

We’ve been in a bit of a stat-wading frame of mind generally today, readers, so we hope you’ll forgive us for one last toot on the trumpet after a fortnight that’s seen every readership record on the site trashed in spectacular style.

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It’s not even our fault – an alert reader on Twitter pointed out our soaring rating on global web traffic tracker Alexa.com over the course of the last few months (since we became wingsoverscotland.com), so we couldn’t resist a bit of a nosy poke around for the rankings of other Scottish politics sites and, well, these were the findings.

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