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Fuel Crisis: missing news stories found
With the petrol story dominating the front pages last week, only The JT prints the stories you might have missed…

Politics

  • SQA crisis and Millenium Dome fiasco meet, plan to wed, mate and produce Super Fuck Up. "World class, Britain at its best,etc" T.Blair
  • Scottish Tories discover and applaud principle of direct action - mass defections to the SWP expected any day now…
  • Glasgow City Council employees caught working: shocked councillors demand enquiry.
  • SNP leadership battle heats up as Swinney caught reading a book.

Media

  • Tragically, fuel crisis fails to halt filming of "Monarch of the Glen 2: The Lovely Niceness just gets worse."
  • Andrew Neil in new claim : circulation of the Scotsman now exceeds known world population.
  • Top journalistic talent continues to leave Scotsman Group, and Alan Taylor fucks off as well
  • SMG boost London production facility. STV to get Glasgow based janitor, but only part-time

Education

  • St. Andrews University makes academic Top Ten. Says report's author: "really rather quite good for a Scottish university". Edinburgh edged out, goes on the piss…
  • US "Psychologist" Charles Murray to address Edinburgh education conference, to put forward perfectly sane and rational view that poor people are stupid and lazy and therefore deserve to be punished. Claims not to be racist - hates all poor people equally without prejudice.

Couthy sign off

  • Fuel crisis fails to affect rural Scotland. Still nothing happening.
Inside: Fuel crisis results in quieter roads, fewer accidents, people use public transport, world does not end.

November 2000
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