Professor John Robertson OBA
The Daily Record today has the above and:
Ferry sailings between Arran and the mainland have been cancelled after an engine issue was discovered with a recently repaired vessel.
A “technical issue” with the MV Caledonian Isles main starboard engine has forced operator CalMac to cancel services between Brodick and Ardrossan today, Tuesday, October 21, and tomorrow, Wednesday, October 22, while the issue is investigated.
The headline is deliberately misleading and will confuse travellers and tourists but is not strictly inaccurate. The opening sentence is wholly inaccurate and can only have been deliberately designed to perpetuate the ferry fiasco narrative.
Are all ferry sailings between Arran and the mainland cancelled?
Nope.
Services are running on the Troon–Brodick route but with potential delays. This route is being used as an alternative, with vessels like MV Glen Sannox and MV Alfred providing coverage.
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It is accuracy like this story from the Daily Record or “Scotland’s Champion” as it likes to call itself, that makes it ever so popular amongst hairdressers benches alongside copies of Chat magazine.
Their solid patriotic stance can aptly be demonstrated via its paid circulation figures since the SNP came to power.
End 2007 approx. 402,000
End 2014 approx. 196,000
September 2025 approx. 39,000
I suspect that the recent flurry of these complete ferry stories from the Herald, Scotsman and now the Record are no more than a last gasp attempt to try and damage the SNP and ramp up what little remains of the Labour and Tory support.
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Newspaper circulation figures in 1990 before the advent of the Internet started to change everything.
P&J 105,000
Glasgow Herald 124,000
Scotsmen 87,000
Daily Record 778,000
Sunday Mail 888,000
Sunday Post 1,249,000
Scotland on Sunday 67,000
From the Encyclopedia of Scotland, Edited by Keay and Keay.
Now articles are written with click bait headlines and immediate upload to the Internet. They are often behind paywalls so no information relevant to the headline will be in the first few paragraphs to make sure people will pay. All it has done, however, is put people off reading/buying newspapers.
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Irony : There are more ferry sailings by Calmac ( 160,000 ) than there are sales of the Daily Rancid ! ( 39,000 )
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newspaper circulation figures are pathetic these days so they need to rely clickbait and pearlclutcher headlines. The BBC works the same way.
that’s why I won’t buy a per or a tv licence.
Not until we live in an independent Scotland and can regulate the media ourselves. John Lawson
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ATTENTION ALL GOOD SCOTS
STOP BUYING THIS FILTHY ENGLISH OWNED AND RUN
THEY SHOULD NEVER EVER GET ANY MONETARY FROM HONEST SCOTS
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It ain’t just the press that’s foreign owned – all the drugs are coming in to Scotland from England, as in this LATEST CASE in todays P&J:
https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/crime-courts/6876909/inverness-drug-dealers-linked-to-liverpool-gangs-jailed/
The usual story…
Liam Riley, described as a 28-year-old prisoner of HMP Perth, had previously been bailed and ordered to stay out of Scotland.
However, he returned to the Highland capital in December last year to restart his illicit trading.
Rgds,
Graham
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Thanks Graham
I appoint you TuS North-East Crime Correspondent.
Salary and Conditions as per SFA rules
John
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NONE OF THESE FILTHY LYING RAGS SHOULD HAVE THEIR LICENCE TO
PRINT IN SCOTLAND BE RENEWED
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