Did we miss a meeting?
Here’s Neil Findlay MSP on this morning’s Andrew Marr Show: Wait, what? This is what the Scottish Labour leadership candidate said: “Andrew, it’s already Labour Party policy in Scotland to oppose the...
View ArticleCongratulations to Jim Murphy MP
On his imminent election as “leader” of the Scottish Labour “party”. Because this, readers, is the opposition. The above is an interview with Scottish Labour MSP Neil Findlay from today’s Good Morning...
View ArticleThe leader who won’t lead anyone
We know some readers hate listening to audio (we do too), so here’s a full transcript of this interview from this morning, with some brief added commentary. GARY ROBERTSON: Neil Findlay joins us now,...
View ArticleThe art of loquacious silence
Today we’ve become quite obsessed with Jim Murphy’s pathological avoidance of a straight answer to the question of whether income tax should be fully devolved to the Scottish Parliament or not. The BBC...
View ArticleWhen history didn’t happen
Below is a clip from today’s “Morning Call” on BBC Radio Scotland. Speaking (from 16m 24s on the full show) are SNP MSP Mark McDonald, presenter Kaye Adams and Labour MSP Lewis Macdonald. There are a...
View ArticleEvery land an island
An alert reader pointed us today to this audio clip of Jim Murphy. It’s not tagged, but we THINK it’s from a Radio Clyde interview about three weeks ago which oddly didn’t seem to get picked up at the...
View ArticleThe magical money machine
This is amazing, readers. It’s an extract from this afternoon’s The Big Debate on Radio Scotland, in which a journalist – the BBC’s Gordon Brewer – finally gets round to asking someone from Scottish...
View ArticleKezia gets the messages
From today’s interview on Good Morning Scotland: (Good Morning Scotland, BBC Radio Scotland, 17 May 2017) . That needs transcribing for the record. BILL WHITEFORD: You mention the two things there –...
View ArticleDidn’t you spill my pint?
Ruth Davidson finally emerged today from a summer of hiding from press stories about her racist and sectarian councillors and MSPs to give a bizarre, nervy and gabbling interview to Good Morning...
View ArticleKirsty Blackman’s Genitals
Some of you still won’t have seen them, er, we mean “this”: ? While it may have been the funniest – and Joanna Cherry silently spoke for every sane person in the nation as it went on – remarkably it...
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