Remarkably, the notoriously unreliable and yet somehow omnipresent Scottish political commentator and reality-disputer David “Davey” Torrance was still digging last night in the wake of this story from three days ago.

Never, eh? Let’s see if that’s true, shall we?

Oh right – so he never wears a collar and tie except in his current official Herald bio pic, the current events he speaks at and advertises, when he’s meeting Nigel Farage and generally for most of the last 10 years. Glad we’ve cleared that up.

Still, at least he’s not a Tory.

Oops.

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Previous David Torrance Fact Checks:

1. “My favourite bit of the Donald Trump book I definitely read was the bit that didn’t actually exist, because some people on the internet had made it up.”

2. “Wings Over Scotland claimed that I got paid to appear on Russia Today.”

3. “Alex Salmond has never read a book.”

4. “Alex Salmond said a No vote would mean privatisation of NHS Scotland.”

5. “I am quitting Twitter because of vile cybernat abuse.”

6. “Dr Craig Dalzell’s research paper says he would fill an independent Scotland’s budget deficit with tax increases and spending cuts.”

7. “It was mostly poorly-educated working-class males who voted Yes, just like with Donald Trump.”

8. “Nobody in the No campaign ever said the UK was a partnership of equals.”

9. “I’ve always been agnostic about a Scottish Six.”

10. “I didn’t know who Ruth Davidson was talking about when she referred to Nicola Sturgeon at a debate I attended in person.”

11. “Wings Over Scotland was prominent in the defence of Alex Salmond’s controversial comments about Vladimir Putin.”

12. “This Better Together poster campaign doesn’t contain a morsel of negativity.”





13. “The 2013 independence rally on Calton Hill was an ostentatious display of ethnic nationalism, and Alan Bissett is an explicit ethnic nationalist.”

14. “The Scottish Conservative conference wasn’t half-empty.”

15. “Alex Salmond had a disappointing year in 2011.”