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The Scottish Media Dictionary 88

Posted on December 07, 2015 by

It’s probably time we had a series of these. So here’s #1.

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scandal (noun) – a situation where no known crime has been committed and nobody has been interviewed by the police, yet which apparently contrasts in some way with other situations about which the exact same applies.

(Can often by identified by presence of Scottish Labour MPs/MSPs describing claims of entirely legal activity as “very serious allegations”.)

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