Pundits! But Scottish

[Bad Wolf]

18 hours ago, Antlion said:

Except exercise portion control, presumably.

I've very disappointed that you would use such a hurtful, personally insulting, fatb*****d-ist term about poor Stephen. He would never stoop to personal insults himself...

 

...except about SNP member and voters, of course, but they don't count as they're evil and should be put down like the rats they are.

[Sherrif John Bunnell]

 

[williemillersmoustache]

1 hour ago, Sherrif John Bunnell said:

 

Love this stuff. The same people who scream THE SNP ARE NOT SCOTLAND want them to have DUN MOAR a quarter of a century before they were in government.  

[Bad Wolf]

Tom Harris, who I've literally never heard of until 15 seconds ago, is a former Labour MP, so the internet informs me. Gosh. The party that won every Scottish election bar one for half a century prior to that date.

[williemillersmoustache]

11 minutes ago, Bad Wolf said:

Tom Harris, who I've literally never heard of until 15 seconds ago, is a former Labour MP, so the internet informs me. Gosh. The party that won every Scottish election bar one for half a century prior to that date.

Also chair of vote leave Scotland and currently has a cushy wee Non exec role working for.....the Tories. A scumbag. 

[carpetmonster]

4 hours ago, williemillersmoustache said:

Also chair of vote leave Scotland and currently has a cushy wee Non exec role working for.....the Tories. A scumbag. 

He was my old MP. Former trade unionist turned arch-corporatist who got absolutely rinsed in the SLab leadership contest that Johann Lamont won. Brexit broke him, turned full moonhowler, lost his seat to Stewart McDonald and then chucked it altogether. Now sits on all sorts of quangos. p***k. 

[Antlion]

5 hours ago, williemillersmoustache said:

Also chair of vote leave Scotland and currently has a cushy wee Non exec role working for.....the Tories. A scumbag. 

Aye, he was very big on independence and sovereignty - just not for Scotland, of course. Since he embraced the far right, at least he’s been an out-and-out dirty b*****d, though, rather than pretending to be a socialist with wet dreams of ermine.

[Bad Wolf]

3 hours ago, carpetmonster said:

He was my old MP. Former trade unionist turned arch-corporatist who got absolutely rinsed in the SLab leadership contest that Johann Lamont won. Brexit broke him, turned full moonhowler, lost his seat to Stewart McDonald and then chucked it altogether. Now sits on all sorts of quangos. p***k. 

I realise now that I probably should have heard of him previously if I'd been paying attention, but tbf (sort of, and just this once) the "modernisers" (insert vomit icon) in Scotlab, like Dugdale and c**t of c***s Murphy, were always so much more memorable than the faceless old skool union dinosaurs.

Edited November 22, 2022 by Bad Wolf

[DrewDon]

Just a little bump for this belter from Chris Deerin. 

[sophia]

I watched FMQs today, it was marked by D Ross being his usual self and quite remarkably, A Sarwar not really asking a question.

In terms of the theatre of it, H Yousaf comfortably completed the session with a growing confidence.

And here's Tom Gordon of the Glasgow Herald having a view that is becoming of his journalistic reach.

I'm not going to trouble myself with rage clicking his link but each to their own.

 

 

[Leith Green]

8 hours ago, sophia said:

I watched FMQs today, it was marked by D Ross being his usual self and quite remarkably, A Sarwar not really asking a question.

In terms of the theatre of it, H Yousaf comfortably completed the session with a growing confidence.

And here's Tom Gordon of the Glasgow Herald having a view that is becoming of his journalistic reach.

I'm not going to trouble myself with rage clicking his link but each to their own.

 

 

Might just be me, but it feels like the Herald has taken a turn for the worse in the last year or so.

[Billy Jean King]

1 hour ago, Leith Green said:

Might just be me, but it feels like the Herald has taken a turn for the worse in the last year or so.

It's definitely not you, a real lurch towards the Union / SNP bad but that's in response to dwindling readership and the demographic left that are likely to seek out their drivel. As for the standard of journalism, it's about 1 rung up the ladder from the Sun at best.

[Leith Green]

1 hour ago, Billy Jean King said:

It's definitely not you, a real lurch towards the Union / SNP bad but that's in response to dwindling readership and the demographic left that are likely to seek out their drivel. As for the standard of journalism, it's about 1 rung up the ladder from the Sun at best.

Its a shame really, when my old man was alive he didnt read The Scotsman (probably because he was an engineering union rep and it was right wing even then) but he always thought the Herald was just a better paper to read - and I tended to agree with him.

Its a real car crash these days, esp their opinion pieces which are "fans with typewriters" type stuff.

[KirkieRR]

I used to get The Herald every day but the variety of viewpoints it used to reflect has gone (and in the sports section they pay a 'lead Rangers writer' to redraft press releases). Sad end to a formerly excellent paper, following The Servile North Briton to the bottom of the budgie cage.

Personal opinion. Gerry Hassan: happen to agree with much of what he says but he's a weaselly wee weasel and sometimes when he pundits as a 'cultural commentator' (great job!) he contributes utter banality.

[O'Kelly Isley III]

49 minutes ago, Leith Green said:

Its a shame really, when my old man was alive he didnt read The Scotsman (probably because he was an engineering union rep and it was right wing even then) but he always thought the Herald was just a better paper to read - and I tended to agree with him.

Its a real car crash these days, esp their opinion pieces which are "fans with typewriters" type stuff.

It is a shambles of a paper which as someone remarked above has decided the barren right-wing hill it will die on.  And it's not just the tone, the production values are shot through too; spelling and grammatical mistakes abound, articles are 'chopped' to fit space and recently and memorably the TV listings for two consecutive days were not just identical, they were totally incorrect !

Best of all though are the repetitive contributions on social affairs from Kevin McKenna, many of which exhibit his religious indoctrination.  Still, they fill a space.

[KirkieRR]

Kevin McKenna used to write some great stuff in his time but often commentators/columnists just empty out.

[Dunfermline Don]

The Herald has never been the same since the passing of Ian Bell.

It was worth buying just for his column alone.

I can’t actually remember when I last bought a print copy of any newspaper. 

[welshbairn]

5 hours ago, Leith Green said:

Might just be me, but it feels like the Herald has taken a turn for the worse in the last year or so.

It might be something to do with having to share the building with the National, trying too hard to look different.

Edited May 12, 2023 by welshbairn

[velo army]

4 hours ago, Dunfermline Don said:

The Herald has never been the same since the passing of Ian Bell.

It was worth buying just for his column alone.

I can’t actually remember when I last bought a print copy of any newspaper. 

I was going to say precisely this. I was genuinely gutted when he died (a week or so after McIlvanney too) as I knew there was nobody who'd be able to fill his erudite communist shoes. I bought the herald on a Tuesday, Saturday and Sunday for his column alone.

Hell, back then you had MacWhirter on form and a bunch of readable Tories too (Andrew McKie was a personal favourite). Now it's beyond shite. 

Even during the referendum they were fairly balanced. The paper itself erred on the side of a no vote, but allowed many of its columnists to bang the independence drum. 

I feel like there isn't a newspaper that reflects my values at all now.

[invergowrie arab]

I hear the gays have called an emergency conference to address losing the reactionary purple faced das