October 31, 2021
Ahead of the three-day COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Labour's Anas Sarwar seemed to go out of his way to create a refuse crisis in the media. One newspaper dutifully reported on Glasgow's "rubbish and rats crisis" and Sarwar was of course there to talk down the city further and pin the blame on the SNP.
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October 23, 2021
It came as a surprise to absolutely nobody that Gordon Brown's latest constitutional review suggested Scotland may get "everything but independence", as Brown has been droning on about federalism since forever. Meanwhile the makers of Tunnock's Teacakes were in the news after apparently donating wafers to the LGB Alliance. No, I haven't a clue either. Here's Akira Kurosawa just because.
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October 17, 2021
At ninety years old, William Shatner became the oldest human in space, taking an eleven minute trip into orbit on Jeff Bezos' rocket New Shepard. The Star Trek actor broke down in tears at the landing site and said he was "overwhelmed". This cartoon is nothing to do with that.
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October 10, 2021
Alex Cole-Hamilton spent the week before the Scottish Liberal Democrats' autumn conference trying to get as many headlines as possible, at one point suggesting they could form a coalition with equally doomed Scottish Labour.
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October 3, 2021
When Brexit made travel between the EU and Britain harder, lorry drivers became scarce and pub chain Wetherspoons was hit by a beer shortage. The company then revealed a staffing crisis and rather than assume Brexit was also the cause, mad brexiteer and founder Tim Martin blamed the UK's low birth rate. On Thursday, the company posted a record £150 million loss due to lockdown's 'draconian restrictions'.
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September 26, 2021
Boris Johnson's determination to be a clown saw him refer to Kermit the Frog's song 'It's not easy being green' at the United Nations General Assembly. The audience felt more pity than anything else. Meanwhile Transport Secretary Grant Shapps denied that Brexit was the cause of the UK's appalling supply chain shortage. In fact, he said, the lack of EU regulations allowed him to change the law to make HGV drivers' jobs more appealing to British workers. May contain Muppets.
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September 19, 2021
After blue passports, pint symbols on glasses and wall-to-wall union jacks, Boris Johnson continued England's path to global isolation and irrelevance by announcing the return of imperial weights and measures. Andrew Neil, having parted company with GB News, showed up on BBC Question Time. I suppose all was forgiven.
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September 11, 2021
Just three weeks into the job, Alex Cole-Hamilton could be forgiven for a lack of impact. The practically invisible Anas Sarwar had less of an excuse. Douglas Ross voted for vaccine passports in Westminster and against them in Holyrood, and promised that Scots would not pay higher taxes before voting to increase National Insurance contributions. These are your opposition branch managers.
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September 4, 2021
After launching GB News in June and presenting a show for two weeks, Andrew Neil, who is chairman of the channel, then took two months off. Subsequently it was announced that his scheduled return in the autumn was not going to happen, the station seemingly preferring the even more populist approach of Nigel Farage.
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August 29, 2021
Former Scottish Secretary David "Fluffy" Mundell was appointed UK trade envoy to New Zealand in a bid to “boost British business in dynamic markets” and “break down barriers to trade”.
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