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    • Captain Caveman on What Anas Actually Said: “You have to remember one of the defining characteristics of the Left: supreme conceit that would shame your average “difficult”…May 30, 08:42
    • Hatey McHateface on Tell Them You’re Frightened: “Does your cynic hat tell you who the “masters” are? That was a rhetorical question BTW. What’s your problem with…May 30, 08:39
    • Hatey McHateface on What Anas Actually Said: ““Firstly, i detest Farage, he is an odious cretinous individual with some seriously questionable opinions/views” Aha! A straight cut-and-paste from…May 30, 08:27
    • Hatey McHateface on What Anas Actually Said: ““I don’t have an issue with “south Asians” coming in but do have an issue when in a very small…May 30, 08:21
    • Northcode on Tell Them You’re Frightened: ““My cynic hat tells me that either the useless Swinney does not want to win, or was instructed by his…May 30, 08:05
    • Stoker on What Anas Actually Said: “Firstly, i detest Farage, he is an odious cretinous individual with some seriously questionable opinions/views. But he stands up for…May 30, 07:56
    • Hatey McHateface on What Anas Actually Said: “Well, well. All the interminable wangers oan aboot colonisation suddenly go quiet when Rev Stu puts up an article detailing…May 30, 07:47
    • Effijy on What Anas Actually Said: “A more minor comment regarding people abbreviating the name of the country someone originated from. In work we were informed…May 30, 06:42
    • PhilM on What Anas Actually Said: “The ‘forlorn shoehorn’…May 30, 00:04
    • Rob on What Anas Actually Said: “I have a question for the massiv, Do many folk support the SNP view that massive inward immigration is the…May 29, 23:06
    • AntonDecadent on What Anas Actually Said: “The main outrage here isn’t what was said in the Reform ad but that they were allowed to say it…May 29, 22:46
    • AntonDecadent on What Anas Actually Said: “The granting of lifelong anonymity means that those convicted could redeem themselves with a position in politics with which to…May 29, 22:45
    • Andrew Kidd on What Anas Actually Said: “In the same speech he also said that Muslims loved the Koran more than their own families. If that is…May 29, 22:27
    • Young Lochinvar on Tell Them You’re Frightened: “Correct. Very sad, but correct. A plague on their houses..May 29, 21:43
    • McDuff on Tell Them You’re Frightened: “What makes me sick is that all those SNP MP/MSPs got voted in on the basis that they would be…May 29, 21:18
    • Red on What Anas Actually Said: “When Reform get into the Scottish Parliament, can we finally get a public inquiry into the grooming gangs in Glasgow,…May 29, 21:10
    • Lorn on What Anas Actually Said: “Perhaps, Red, but I suspect it was more about Islam than it was about being Pakistani. You could have Pakistani…May 29, 21:01
    • Sally Hughes on What Anas Actually Said: “For the leader of a mainstream Political Party (sub-branch), which is supposed to be moderate, to commit such an own…May 29, 20:54
    • willie on What Anas Actually Said: “Sad fact of life is that the Pakistani come Muslim community very much see themselves as a community apart. That…May 29, 20:51
    • Scot Finlayson on What Anas Actually Said: “Massie will write 500 or 1000 words on any subject his editor tells him, it`s generally the same 500 or…May 29, 20:48
    • Marie on Tell Them You’re Frightened: “Holyrood gets pocket money. Westminster is the parent, and as parent, has final say on everything.May 29, 20:34
    • Axel Heyst on What Anas Actually Said: “Eh? Have you looked at a map, rather than old colonial divides and rivers? I’m a Cocos Malay, which asian…May 29, 20:07
    • Stuart MacKay on What Anas Actually Said: “If only he were called Anastovich Sarwarov. Can you imagine the gnashing of teeth and rending of garments.May 29, 19:51
    • Red on What Anas Actually Said: ““Disappointed in Massie. On the right, but, usually, intelligent.” Lorn, Alex Massie is a Tory. The Tories are spineless cowards…May 29, 19:43
    • Alf Baird on What Anas Actually Said: “Though obscured in a colonial society, cultural imperialism is based on the racist superiority of one group over others (Edward…May 29, 19:28
    • Mia on Tell Them You’re Frightened: “I am wearing my cynic hat on right now. There is less than a year until the next Holyrood election.…May 29, 19:14
    • agent x on What Anas Actually Said: “West Asia (also called Western Asia or Southwest Asia) is the westernmost region of Asia. As defined by most academics,…May 29, 19:10
    • agent x on What Anas Actually Said: “South Asia is a subregion of Asia located between the Himalayas to the north and the Indian Ocean to the…May 29, 18:55
    • James on Tell Them You’re Frightened: “What’s sixth form? Are you foreign?May 29, 18:19
    • katielass42 on Tell Them You’re Frightened: “‘Change’… yes, we heard all that from labour – and look what we got. Until each party explains PRECISELY what…May 29, 18:10
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