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Herd impunity 373

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Fix up, look sharp 702

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Holiday Boy is still “resting”, so here’s a laugh from nearly six years ago.

Hear the bang? See the spark? No, us either.

Faith over experience 638

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The Tory Variant 736

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The skewer 728

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Hostile environment 990

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The spanner in the works 356

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The Hardest Vote 309

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We’d actually planned to leave Chris Cairns’ fabulous cartoon at the top of the front page all day today, but this post is important so we’re putting it in here again (no, Chris, you don’t get paid twice) so we can say this.

Because no matter how much you hate the Unionist parties or certain of their individual MSPs, if you want Alba MSPs elected today there are several seats where you really, really can’t afford to vote SNP on the constituency ballot.

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Honest Jock 87

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