• Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
  • Home
  • Articles
  • Blog
  • About
  • Contribute
  • Contact

Sceptical Scot

Asking Questions. Seeking Answers.

You are here: Home / Archives for Humour

Humour

ChatGPT, you’re fired!

March 14, 2023 by Jackie Kemp Leave a Comment

“The quotes were generally ideal, exactly what I was looking for, so I searched a little harder. But after fouterin for literary hours, I realised that it just makes the damn things up.”

GERS 2019 and indyref2

August 22, 2019 by John McLaren 1 Comment

A small ship, hopelessly at sea

‘The comment by the Scottish Finance Secretary at the time of publication that “Scotland’s economy and public finances are strong” seems fanciful given any reasonable analysis of recent low economic growth figures and a still high, by international standards, fiscal deficit.’

Can satire bring Brexit Britain to its senses?

September 4, 2017 by Fay Young Leave a Comment

A screenshot of David Cameron played by Paul Rich in the satire, Brexit the Musical

This is a good time for satirists, though there’s no clear line between farce and tragedy in the real life script written in the words of our political leaders. Fay Young samples poetry and music inspired by Trump, May and Brexit.

The Sceptical Scot cartoon: conference conundrum

October 12, 2016 by Kipper Williams Leave a Comment

Sceptical Scot cartoon: Sturgeon’s woes pile up

September 16, 2016 by Kipper Williams Leave a Comment

Sceptical Scot cartoon: getting the vote out

April 23, 2016 by Kipper Williams Leave a Comment

The Sceptical Scot cartoon: UKIP lifts smoking ban

April 11, 2016 by Kipper Williams Leave a Comment

The Sceptical Scot cartoon: Chinese steel

November 14, 2015 by Kipper Williams Leave a Comment

The Sceptical Scot cartoon: Queensferry Crossing

October 25, 2015 by Kipper Williams Leave a Comment

The Sceptical Scot cartoon: Cameron on the run

May 23, 2015 by Kipper Williams Leave a Comment

By Kipper Williams.

Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

About Sceptical Scot

Welcome to Sceptical Scot, Scotland’s premier non-tribal forum for passionate, informed debate. Sceptical Scot is for all who care about Scotland’s future, regardless of how they vote: for party, independence or union, EU or Brexit. We aim to provide an arena that is both broader and deeper than current online/print offers with a rich diet of well-researched, polemical, thought-provoking writing. Read more » about About Sceptical Scot

What’s new on Sceptical Scot

  • What’s in the new Programme for Government? Look in the long grass September 8, 2023
  • Learning from Scotland: what a Labour government would mean for the right to roam September 7, 2023
  • Europe must unite to stop deep-sea resource grab September 6, 2023
  • Energy market reforms must embrace a social tariff August 30, 2023
  • Climate change at the Edinburgh festivals August 21, 2023
  • GERS 2023: uptick in oil revenues narrows the budget deficit August 16, 2023
  • Zombie Scotland must wake up to its future August 14, 2023
  • Let’s make interest rates zero – permanently August 10, 2023
  • Treasury gives Holyrood more fiscal leeway August 3, 2023
  • Ukraine’s recovery will ‘take a village’ of international actors July 28, 2023

The Sceptical Newsletter

The Sceptical Scot cartoon

Categories

  • Articles (678)
  • Blog (569)
  • Books & Poetry (26)
  • Brexit (211)
  • climate crisis (6)
  • climate crisis (33)
  • Covid19 (66)
  • Criminal justice (18)
  • Culture (315)
  • Devo20 (1)
  • Economics (195)
  • Economy (120)
  • Education (77)
  • Elections (192)
  • Energy (2)
  • Environment (76)
  • European Union (264)
  • Featured (42)
  • Federalism (20)
  • federalism (14)
  • Health (67)
  • History (75)
  • Housing (26)
  • Humour (11)
  • identity (19)
  • Independence (288)
  • Inequality (80)
  • International (41)
  • Ireland (10)
  • Ireland (7)
  • Local government (87)
  • Longer reads (75)
  • Media (11)
  • Podcast (3)
  • Poetry (72)
  • Policy (240)
  • Politics (363)
  • Polls and quizzes (2)
  • Reviews (24)
  • Social democracy (85)
  • Trump (10)
  • UK (361)
  • Uncategorized (7)

Sceptical Scot elsewhere

Facebook
Twitter

Footer

About Sceptical Scot

Since 2014 Sceptical Scot has offered a non-tribal forum for passionate, informed debate for all who care about Scotland’s future

Recommended

  • Bella Caledonia
  • Centre on Constitutional Change
  • The UK in a Changing Europe
  • Common Space
  • Gerry Hassan
  • Scottish Review
  • Social Europe
  • Think Scotland

Archives

Copyright © 2023 · Magazine Pro on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in