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Letters to the editor 550

Posted on October 07, 2014 by

From today’s Daily Record:

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Better late than never, eh?

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The corridors of power 377

Posted on October 06, 2014 by

We couldn’t help noticing this sad story from yesterday’s Sunday Times:

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That’s Johann Lamont, readers – the woman who wants to lead Scotland, but had to be “rescued” when she tried to negotiate entry into a lift. God save us.

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Taking the biscuits 803

Posted on October 04, 2014 by

Not a spoof. Spotted at the Lib Dem conference:

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The second paragraph says more than we could.

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This is the party 756

Posted on October 01, 2014 by

David Cameron’s speech to the Conservative conference today:

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You have to laugh, or… 341

Posted on September 30, 2014 by

There’s only one possible sane response to this story. It’s below:

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Click the pic to sign. Let’s see who gets the most, shall we?

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Yeah, that’ll work 328

Posted on September 30, 2014 by

Because nothing scares Etonian Tory Prime Ministers like a poster on a van.

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Your time is over, Daily Record. Tick tock.

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Demand and supply 401

Posted on September 29, 2014 by

Daily Record, Saturday 27 September:

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Sittin’ on a beach 370

Posted on September 28, 2014 by

Don’t panic, readers – I’m not about to make you look at all my holiday snaps. But after Thursday’s “Gone fishin'” post, I was buying milk in the local Co-op and got busted by a reader demanding to know why I wasn’t at the seaside, so this is for him.

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The topics of the day 592

Posted on September 26, 2014 by

Can be discussed below. (We don’t know what they are, we’re on holiday.)

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Some rest for the wicked 402

Posted on September 25, 2014 by

Right then. I’m now back in Bath, which sadly is not yet technically in a foreign country. To be frank, readers, after the last three years and especially the last two weeks I’m mentally, emotionally and physically done in.

But on the 19th I said that it was “difficult to think of any useful purpose [Wings Over Scotland] can serve” in the aftermath of a No vote, and that’s no longer the case.

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