One Scotland United Together Forever 239
Posted on
April 21, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Journalist of the day 156
Posted on
April 02, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Ladies and gentlemen, golf and lynching enthusiast Mr Fraser Paterson:
When oh when will the First Minister condemn these vile cybernat oh wait.
In all your newspapers tomorrow 208
Posted on
August 06, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We’re sure, right?
And it’ll be accompanied, we haven’t even the slightest shred of doubt, by a veritable procession of outraged columnists demanding that Alistair Darling must take personal responsibility for the actions of these people.
The game-changer 162
Posted on
July 19, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
A self-fulfilling prophecy 293
Posted on
July 17, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Kerry Gill in the Scottish Daily Express, 17 July 2014:
“Two months to go until the referendum, but acrimony will last for years
Our emphasis. It sure is a mystery where this “acrimony” is coming from, eh readers? Perhaps, if we all have to get along together after the referendum, it might possibly be better not to engage in furious, unhinged rants where you call your opponents a bunch of racist bigots. Just a thought, like.
The cataclysm continues 247
Posted on
July 10, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Only our very alertest readers are likely to recall our first brush with Azeem Ibrahim of the “Scotland Institute”, a right-wing think tank which recently came up with a report on an independent Scotland’s debt that was picked up by some of the less discerning newspapers but which we ignored for being too boring.
And we must concede fair play to the eternally attention-seeking Mr Ibrahim, because he’s come storming right back with something altogether livelier.
Send three and fourpence 143
Posted on
June 04, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We’re going to the IndepenDance.
An alert reader at a scanning shop in Falkirk found this today, left behind by the previous customer. Click the thumbnail above for the full majesty, as it were.
Working for the Yankee dollar 148
Posted on
May 18, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
It’s been a grim sort of day today, so let’s finish off with something a bit lighter.
We highly recommend reading the entire thing. It seems not to be a spoof.
Why don’t you go back to Islamia? 253
Posted on
May 03, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We’ve quite frequently highlighted the ugly, irresponsible tone of the No campaign’s – and especially Labour’s – comments about “foreigners” in the independence debate. And the reason we do is because that sort of language feeds attitudes like these.
There is, sadly, more where that came from.
A genuine mystery 159
Posted on
April 16, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We honestly don’t understand how anyone with electricity in their house or a newsagent anywhere within a 30-mile radius can possibly come to say things like this:
Firstly, Elaine, we’d have to say that “it would be crazy” DOES actually sound like quite a strong view on independence to us. But in all seriousness, leaving all snark and sarcasm aside, how on Earth does a human being living in the UK in 2014, seemingly not inside any sort of secure institution, come to believe something like that?
Ms Coates isn’t some lone madwoman. Other people, also not resident in mental hospitals, say the same thing. And we get that lots of people aren’t into politics. But when it comes to ignorance about your own nation, being unaware that Scotland has oil is somewhere on a par with not knowing that Great Britain is an island. How in the world do you go through decades of adult life without ever picking up on that fact?
It’s not a rhetorical question. Can someone actually explain it to us?
A zero-sum game 216
Posted on
March 19, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Remember, kids – nationalism is bad. Stay away from the evil nationalists, or they might steal your Union Jack flag, Union Jack t-shirt or Royal Standard.
The only number that can be divided to end up with nothing is zero.
