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From Derry to Gaza: no more state massacres, no more state cover-ups!

As one inquiry into state-sponsored murder ends, another begins. The former being Tuesday’s eventual publication of the Saville Inquiry into Bloody Sunday – when British paratroopers massacred 14 unarmed civilians at a Civil Rights demonstration in Derry in January 1972. The intervening forty years have seen countless smear campaigns against the victims and their families, [...]

Freedom for the Basque Country!

I’m writing this from Stansted airport, en route to a major international conference in the Basque country at which the SSP and SSY have been asked to represent Scotland. The Basque people are quite possibly the oldest still existing nation in Europe. They speak a language completely unrelated to any of the other European languages, [...]

Labour MSP: "Whaurs the burdz?"

Scottish Labour have been again embarrassed as leading MSP Frank ‘the Wank’ McAveety was exposed as a pervy bastard. McAveety was forced yesterday to resign as convenor of the Scottish Parliament Petitions committee and as Labour spokesman for sport. As if Labour hadn’t learned their lessons about microphones being left on already, he was overheard [...]

Robo-bins say "Bottles mean prizes!"

The ConDem coalition government has shown its true shade of green with new proposals to reward households who produce more recycling waste. The plans, announced last week by Communities Secretary, Conservative Eric Pickles (whose name just seems to capture his essence), are ostensibly designed to reduce waste going into landfill sites around the country. In [...]

SDL IN CRISIS! Let's finish them off this Saturday…

The last time we saw the Scottish Defence League – a few dozen thugs, football hooligans and out and out racists – all the way back in February, they were being bussed away by Lothian & Borders Polis, en route to being dumped in a field somewhere near Linlithgow. As the cavalcade of 500 cops [...]

The Capes of Rath

By Calum Nelson, MPharm In South Africa there’s a popular comedian called Matthias Rath. Here’s one of his jokes: “Patient: Doctor Doctor, I’m worried about transmitting HIV to my unborn baby. Doctor: Don’t worry, just have some potatoes. Whatever you do, don’t take any poisonous anti-viral medicine which will actually cause AIDS.” It’s a screamer [...]

The great World Cup rip-off

Today sees the launch of the 2010 football world cup in South Africa. It’s great news for football fans, and we’re playing our part with a world cup raffle (comment if you’d like to get a ticket!) and South Africa night for the final (watch this space for details.) But great as it might be [...]

Foxageddon

When two babies were bitten in their house by a fox the other day, I wondered why the media were going so absolutely baws oot crazy about it, and made a quiet wee joke to myself that foxes were going to be the Daily Mail’s new target. Lo and behold, the campaign begins! It’s taken [...]

Labour just isn't cool enough to elect a Terminator as leader

The Tory press are up in arms about a joke made by Labour leadership candidate John McDonnell at a trade union hustings. You might remember that after the election we tipped McDonnell as one of the few good guys to get elected to the Westminster Parliament. Despite still being a member of the Labour Party, [...]

Millionaire PM tells us: "Your whole way of life will have to change"

On June 22nd the ConDem government will release its emergency budget, plunging us into a nightmare of cuts and job losses. In a speech today Posh PM David Cameron gave some hint as to his real economic agenda. He said: ”How we deal with these things will affect our economy, our society – indeed our [...]