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Ole Ola 235

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(Buy Chris Cairns’ second great book of cartoons here. Plus cuddly Hamish!)

The nuclear umbrella 325

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(Buy Chris Cairns’ second great book of cartoons here. Plus cuddly Hamish!)

The paper it’s written on 257

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(Buy Chris Cairns’ second great book of cartoons here. Plus cuddly Hamish!)

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Great news, readers! After years of requests, it’s now finally possible to possess and cherish your very own adorable cuddly toy version of Wings’ symbolic embodiment of benign and welcoming independence, Hamish the lion!

Admittedly you’ll have to buy some slacker’s book of cartoons to get one, but that’s surely a small price to pay.

Eyes on the prized 73

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One two-hundredth 71

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More Bad News 96

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Pups on parade 215

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McCain’s Mutiny 37

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    • Hatey McHateface on Spot The Problem: “OK, Northy, so now you’re saying: 1. The LA is part of (an appointee of) the Scottish Government. 2. A…Aug 27, 19:02
    • Andrea on Spot The Problem: “@Hatey, I am not an indy supporter 😉Aug 27, 18:59
    • robertkknight on Spot The Problem: “Adults you say, Hatey? Look in a mirror… You’ll not find one there!Aug 27, 18:55
    • Hatey McHateface on Spot The Problem: ““she achieved nothing in government except to make things worse” Ah, c’moan noo, Red. How can you have forgotten the…Aug 27, 18:50
    • James on Spot The Problem: “You’re on speed, right?Aug 27, 18:47
    • Hatey McHateface on Spot The Problem: “You need to grow up, Bob. The adults have forgiven far worse people for far worse things far more recently.…Aug 27, 18:37
    • robertkknight on Spot The Problem: “Spartan… Back to the here and now, and irrespective of the useful idiots with Scottish accents, of which there are…Aug 27, 18:33
    • Red on Spot The Problem: “You’ve got to ask yourself, why is Nicola Sturgeon being protected like this? She’s not clever, she’s not charismatic, she…Aug 27, 18:29
    • Alf Baird on Spot The Problem: ““And we would have been forever denied my favourite, the “cheese” quote.” Dinna forget Fanon’s prediction that a national party…Aug 27, 18:29
    • Northcode on Spot The Problem: ““It’s not the only option.” Legally, it is the only option. The Scotland Act 1998 provides for a single legal…Aug 27, 18:26
    • Spartan 117 on Spot The Problem: “A good analogy, except for the unavoidable fact that it’s our own fellow Scots who are entirely at fault here,…Aug 27, 18:13
    • agentx on Spot The Problem: ““James Che says: 27 August, 2026 at 3:20 pm The referral to the Supreme court is under the Crown of…Aug 27, 18:10
    • robertkknight on Spot The Problem: “Aha…site prick arrives, right on cue. Read up on a 1000 years of history genius and even you’ll run out…Aug 27, 18:08
    • Jim Thomson on Spot The Problem: “At my age, I wouldn’t dare.Aug 27, 18:03
    • Hatey McHateface on Spot The Problem: ““no historian, scholar, or politician has realised that the union we entered into is in fact illegal” Too busy stuffing…Aug 27, 17:58
    • James Che on Spot The Problem: “Alf, You are correct in your analysis the Crown belongs to England under the acts passed by Westminster parliaments Of…Aug 27, 17:56
    • Hatey McHateface on Spot The Problem: “Good spot, am firinn. Would it be fair to say that even English parish councils are usually bundled in with…Aug 27, 17:52
    • Hatey McHateface on Spot The Problem: ““physical assaults” Bob? Are you saying some big, bad, English barsturts roughed you up? Did they run away afterwords, or…Aug 27, 17:43
    • Hatey McHateface on Spot The Problem: “@ Northcode says: 27 August, 2026 at 5:06 pm “Neither Scotland’s parliament nor a First Minister can sack a Lord…Aug 27, 17:38
    • robertkknight on Spot The Problem: “Don’t hold your breath… Agent Sturgeon has friends in high places.Aug 27, 17:29
    • am firinn on Spot The Problem: “Crikey. Even English parish councils – with whom the then Scottish Executive was tellingly compared – can levy taxes.Aug 27, 17:27
    • James Che on Spot The Problem: “Hatey, The Scottish government levies taxes in Scotland, as indeed HMRC do in Scotland from England, Except in Scotland having…Aug 27, 17:25
    • robertkknight on Spot The Problem: “Absolutely! Like all these people who don’t take responsibility for the decades of coercive behaviour, gas lighting, financial abuse and…Aug 27, 17:24
    • Hatey Mchateface on Spot The Problem: “I get you, Northy. Even of HR did something you approved of, it would be for the wrong reasons, so…Aug 27, 17:15
    • Jim Thomson on Spot The Problem: “This story just appeared on the BBC website: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgy7lmlvldoAug 27, 17:15
    • Chas on Spot The Problem: “Does anyone else find it amazing that in the past 300 odd years no historian, scholar, or politician has realised…Aug 27, 17:12
    • Northcode on Spot The Problem: ““…In practice, the First Minister would likely remove the Lord Advocate themselves rather than risk the embarrassment of such a…Aug 27, 17:06
    • Mark Beggan on Spot The Problem: “There’s more than one way to skin a cat! What goes around comes around! Just don’t blame someone else for…Aug 27, 17:03
    • Rob on Spot The Problem: “Since it is now abundantly clear they is no “official route to getting this into court, when does the judicial…Aug 27, 16:58
    • Spartan 117 on Spot The Problem: “Marking your own jotters is De Rigeur these days, it’s one of the central pillars of Big State Socialism.Aug 27, 16:54
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