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Posted on October 07, 2014 by

From today’s Daily Record:

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Better late than never, eh?

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.

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.

This is the party 756

Posted on October 01, 2014 by

David Cameron’s speech to the Conservative conference today:

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?

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.

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.)

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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