Over the last week or so we’ve gone into several sections of Nicola Sturgeon’s memoir “Frankly” in some detail: what gender she really thinks Adam “Isla Bryson” Graham is, blaming JK Rowling for the toxic tone of the self-ID debate and explaining how she thinks the law should be changed to let transwomen into women’s […]| Wings Over Scotland
Scotland’s two main political parties have published their 2024 accounts. The SNP’s can be found here, and Scottish Labour’s here. Neither tells a massively inspiring tale. (Click pics to enlarge.) The SNP lost £445,000 despite being boosted by donations totalling almost £940,000 from just FOUR individuals. Scottish Labour made a profit of £350,000 but only […]| Wings Over Scotland
We’ve been here before. But let’s try to really dumb it down for the extra-stupid. Because it isn’t actually very hard at all, and there’s no IQ test. Nicola Sturgeon’s memoir is terribly huffy about the whole idea. It sets the scene for her to rubbish it with some cheap smears Sturgeon knows are baseless. […]| Wings Over Scotland
Before becoming a politician Nicola Sturgeon had a brief and somewhat unsuccessful career in the world of law. Which means she has no excuse whatsoever for this: Because in law, yes it does. That’s EXACTLY what it means. People are not put on trial in the High Court of Scotland for putting pineapple on their […]| Wings Over Scotland
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The media coverage of the gender-ideology revelations in Nicola Sturgeon’s memoir has been based on a couple of short sentences from it, but since the main section of the book devotes 14 pages to the subject it’s worth checking out in depth, at least until something more interesting happens. Highly intelligent people only, obviously. We’ll […]| Wings Over Scotland
There was one revealing moment in what was an otherwise nauseatingly sycophantic interview with Nicola Sturgeon by Adam Fleming on BBC2 last night. ? And the thing it revealed is what Sturgeon’s book is really about. Because as more and more extracts have found their way into the public domain this week, the overarching theme […]| Wings Over Scotland
As more and more of Nicola Sturgeon’s memoirs ooze out into the public sphere like pus leaking from a burns-victim’s blisters, it’s easy to get overwhelmed by the sheer volume of rank, festering untruth spreading out in all directions. First she audaciously attempted to blame Alex Salmond for supposedly leaking the news of his own […]| Wings Over Scotland
Say what you like about Nicola Sturgeon, but she’s not stupid. Releasing her memoirs when the Scottish Parliament is in recess has ensured acres of media coverage for what so far have been ex…| Wings Over Scotland
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You might think you’ve heard this tired old song before. But wait! This one’s streamlined! Come back!| Wings Over Scotland
It seems like almost every time somebody gets accused of rape, sexual harassment or any kind of horrible creepy sex-based sleaze in Scotland these days, the same face is always lurking around grinn…| Wings Over Scotland
So this snuck out quietly at the bottom of page 2 of today’s Daily Record. And like, we suspect, most of Scotland, our response was “WHAT?”| Wings Over Scotland
Back in the 1980s and 1990s, before the internet, scammers used to have to work a bit harder to cheat people than they do now. A popular method was to advertise a “clearance sale” in th…| Wings Over Scotland
Genuinely, can anyone tell us what the heck this actually means? ? Because to us, it’s just meaningless quacking to fill a void.| Wings Over Scotland
And now for tonight’s headlines. Police Scotland have nevertheless denied that prisoners in their custody are being excessively pampered, following reports that a man was hustled out of St Le…| Wings Over Scotland
Seamus Logan, an SNP MP of whom it has often been said “Seamus who?”, has an article in The National today categorically ruling out Scotland achieving independence via a democratic vote…| Wings Over Scotland
Tommy Sheppard knows a John Swinney you don’t know. And who, conveniently, you’re not allowed to see.| Wings Over Scotland
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The task facing the Scottish independence movement is to change the minds of just 6% of Scots. That’s all it would take to turn September 2014’s defeat into a victory if and when anothe…| Wings Over Scotland
Those of you on Twitter will probably be aware of this already, but for the rest: It should be a bit of a lark, although the retrospective part will probably be rather more fun than the looking-for…| Wings Over Scotland
David Davis may be the last of his kind – a libertarian Tory from a council-scheme and grammar-school background, and also one of the few remaining big beasts occupying the political jungle o…| Wings Over Scotland
You should probably watch the whole of this speech by Sir David Davis this evening, even if you saw the trailer three and a quarter years ago. ? It’s both a comprehensive refresher of events …| Wings Over Scotland
Daniel Sanderson of the Telegraph has filed a series of excellent but deeply disturbing articles this month about the growing presence in Scottish primary schools of LGBT Youth Scotland, a charity …| Wings Over Scotland
Welcome, readers, to what may be the final week of Wings Over Scotland. We’ve been covering the Scottish Government’s horrific, draconian Hate Crime Act for almost four years now. But u…| Wings Over Scotland
There are many people in the world deserving of sympathy at the moment, readers, but spare a thought in your busy day for Scotland’s Lord Advocate, Dorothy Bain. Just two and a half years int…| Wings Over Scotland
