YOU may have seen that last night The National took journalist Andrew Neil to task over his breakdown of Scottish well-being statistics.
Neil posted his analysis just days after the launch of our new fact-checking service (well worth checking out, btw) which had already gone through the claim that Scottish well-being has slid down the global rankings - and found it to be false.
READ MORE: Andrew Neil thread gets it wrong on Scotland's well-being
Being very kind souls we wished to show Neil the error of his ways, and wrote a short piece explaining where he went wrong, adding a link to the full fact check.
Today, we posted the story on Twitter again in the hope of catching his attention. The simple "FAO: Andrew Neil" caption seemed to do the trick, because he retweeted it.
No comment - just a retweet.
FAO: Andrew Neil (@afneil)https://t.co/UMqbcJrPbm
— The National (@ScotNational) January 28, 2020
Was it an admission that our fact check is correct? Was it to start a pile on? Who's to say.
But it meant he had a good excuse when it came to his own analysis.
READ MORE: FACT CHECK: Claim Scotland has slid down global well-being rankings
Replying to Neil's claim that Scotland has "suffered one of the sharpest falls among developed countries in ranking of national well-being", Stuart Campbell, aka Wings Over Scotland, told the BBC journalist: "It really is quite embarrassing to see you punting these gerrymandered figures from an extremely partisan source."
I have also tweeted the Nationalist newspaper critique of them. Would that one day you'd learn to be so even-handed. https://t.co/g7bqnfPjlC
— Andrew Neil (@afneil) January 28, 2020
The Politics Live presenter hit back: "I have also tweeted the Nationalist newspaper critique of them. Would that one day you'd learn to be so even-handed."
(Sidenote: We're not called the Nationalist. Just The National. Cheers!)
Pro-independence blogger Wings replied, pointing out he, unlike the BBC presenter, has a confirmed agenda.
He wrote: "I play for one of the teams, love. You're the one who's meant to be the referee, not me."
The row appears to stop there, but we hope that if Neil really did enjoy our fact check he'll consider a wee subscription ...
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