We’ve written a number of extremely, painstakingly detailed articles in the last few months explaining why list votes for the SNP at next year’s election will be wasted, and will serve only to elect Unionist (and in particular Reform) MSPs. Unfortunately, some people still don’t get it. And that’s understandable, because super-detailed articles are long […]| Wings Over Scotland
There’s an interesting piece in the Sunday Times today. They’re not the only ones. It’s hard to disagree with the views expressed in the piece by former Tory MSP Adam Tomkins. The Holyrood talent pool is so wretched, and looks set to become so much worse next May, that the article is reduced to suggesting […]| Wings Over Scotland
Don’t you know there’s no oil left there anyway? (Apologies for our impromptu week off, we’ve been very busy with other stuff and there was nothing happening in Scottish politics anyway. See you on Monday.)| Wings Over Scotland
I spent yesterday trying to work out exactly why I was so depressed about the fatal shooting of conservative American activist Charlie Kirk. It wasn’t because I shared many of his opinions &#…| Wings Over Scotland
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Last week we introduced readers to Sophia “Tarquin” Brooks, the 18-year-old boy who Graham Linehan is currently on trial for supposedly “assaulting”, and in particular his connection to disgraced former policeman and serial harasser Lynsay Watson. (From reporting of the proceedings at Westminster Magistrates Court, it sounds very much like Watson has been directing and influencing […]| Wings Over Scotland
We’ve written already about the magnitude of the error transactivists have made in bringing about the arrest of Graham Linehan on trumped-up incitement charges. But thanks to the excellent work of court reporter Nick Wallis this week, the sheer scale of it is still only beginning to unfold. At its heart is a scarcely-believable tale […]| Wings Over Scotland
We think transactivists will swiftly come to see yesterday as an epic mistake. Because it looks as though it might just have been the final straw. The public reaction against Graham Linehan’s arrest at Heathrow Airport by five armed officers over a handful of innocuous tweets, which also saw the writer hospitalised, was so loud […]| Wings Over Scotland
This is a remarkable thing. ? The Scottish Greens, who until last year were a party of government, claim to have 7,600 members. This month they conducted an election to choose two people as their “co-conveners”, from a list of four candidates, and almost 90% of the party’s members decided that they didn’t want any […]| Wings Over Scotland
…grind exceedingly slowly, but grind they do. May 2021: And now today, just four years and three months of struggle later: As far as we’re aware, today marks the first time the Scottish…| Wings Over Scotland
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
