December 4, 2021
Health Secretary Sajid Javid said that “people can snog who they wish” under the mistletoe this Christmas. Health professionals were unimpressed. Meanwhile, Downing Street came under fire for holding parties last Christmas whilst the rest of the country was in lockdown.
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November 27, 2021
Just seven months on from May's election, which the SNP won with a record share of the vote, the First Minister was quizzed about whether she would serve a full five-year term. Unsurprisingly, the answer was affirmative but it seemed controversial to both journalists and opposition MSPs, with screeds of column inches and much wailing. LibDem Alex Cole-Hamilton said "it's time Scotland had an alternative". Conservative Jackson Carlaw said it was "bad news for Scotland". There was further uproar the following day when it was reported that Nicola Sturgeon refused to say whether she would stand for re-election in 2026.
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November 20, 2021
Journalist and presenter Andrew Marr announced that he was giving up his Sunday morning politics show after sixteen years, taking up roles at LBC and Classic FM. There was immediate speculation as to who might replace him and most eyes looked to Andrew Neil, recently freed from a disastrous stint at GB News.
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November 14, 2021
Bosnian news presenter Ika Ferrer Gotić thanked the people of Scotland for the warm welcome she received whilst attending the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, calling it "the coolest nation on earth". Here, figures from my book 'Cool Scots' are in broad general agreement. Unsure who they are? You should be ashamed of yourself and buy the book immediately.
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November 7, 2021
When Conservative MP Owen Paterson was given a 30-day suspension for being found guilty of 'cash for questions' by the parliamentary standards committee, the government did the sensible thing... and tried to abolish the committee. It was only when the SNP and Labour refused to be part of a new committee that they were forced to u-turn.
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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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