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Same as it ever was 77

Posted on June 04, 2013 by

From the excellent Part 1 of STV’s new documentary “Road To Referendum” (based on the book by Iain Macwhirter, out this week), Labour PM Harold Wilson and Scottish Secretary Willie Ross punt a rather familiar line four decades before Ed Miliband.

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We’re sure there’s nothing at all sinister in the fact that the show was unavailable to most viewers due to an unprecedented cross-media technical failure, which also wiped out the STV news at 6pm and this evening’s Scotland Tonight, incidentally.

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A poem, by my mum 23

Posted on May 29, 2013 by

A FOREIGN POLICY

Margaret Curran should know the truth
Of engaging brain before opening mooth;
Using the word “foreigner”
Like a profanity
Offends large sections of humanity.

She should know better and be more carin’
Each one of us is a Jock Tamson bairn;
To hear an apology would be divine,
But don’t hold your breath – I won’t hold mine.
(c) M. Campbell, 2013
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I was in Labour, but I didn’t inhale 92

Posted on May 26, 2013 by

Below is a short extract from an interview between Margaret Curran and BBC Radio Scotland’s Derek Bateman on Good Morning Scotland last week.

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The whole thing is very much worth a listen, but this bit jumped out.

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Tight boots 76

Posted on May 24, 2013 by

We were hunting through a load of 1980s issues of 2000AD earlier today, looking for something else altogether, when we stumbled across this. It seemed somehow timely.

apocalypse

We can’t think why.

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Education, education, education 33

Posted on May 22, 2013 by

Johann Lamont used to be an English teacher. We presume she was a conscientious and caring educator. We imagine she’s as horrified and embarrassed by this press release from the train-drivers’ union ASLEF yesterday as we are.

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High Street Farage Death Ceilidh 147

Posted on May 16, 2013 by

No, honestly, they’re just dancing.

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Labour’s super-fun happy day 43

Posted on May 13, 2013 by

(And Finally… #36)

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Five points if you get the joke.

(Tilt o’the topper to Dr. Morag Kerr.)

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And I would ask 500 more 691

Posted on May 06, 2013 by

It’s indescribably beautiful that the No camp’s much-trailed “500 questions” PDF about independence actually features 507. At least they’re getting their arithmetic wrong downwards for a change. When all those are answered they promise hundreds and hundreds more, so we thought we’d give them a head start on Volume 2.

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Ramping it up 111

Posted on May 02, 2013 by

Welsh First Minister Carwyn Jones yesterday:

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Welsh First Minister Carwyn Jones today:

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Could they be related? 71

Posted on May 01, 2013 by

Our mole at "Better Together" HQ leaks another upcoming poster.

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Great work, Anas "Agent X"!

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How’s that working out for you? 75

Posted on April 23, 2013 by

The Scotsman reports today the less-than-astonishing news that the Orange Order plans to take the (Ulster Says) No side in the independence debate, lining up with such other lovely “Better Together” bedfellows as the BNP, National Front and UKIP in a coalition of all the most likeable aspects of Britishness.

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In the light of this exciting and important development, we couldn’t help but wonder how their last attempt at influencing Scottish politics had gone.

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Fixed that for you 62

Posted on April 21, 2013 by

We’ve had a look at this troubling issue before.

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Click the image to solve the problem.

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