Wings Over Scotland
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We are the world's most-read Scottish politics website. Wings Over Scotland is a Scottish political website, which focuses particularly on the media, whether mainstream print and broadcast organisations or the online and social-network community, as well as offering its own commentary and analysis.
Wings Over Scotland
1d ago
Now, before we start this piece we should probably note that we don’t think anyone’s losing anything by being excluded from Believe In Scotland’s latest money-gathering exercise (folding, please, not clinking!) in Glasgow later this month. We rather suspect most folk can manage fine without spending a Saturday afternoon listening to tedious speeches from Pat ..read more
Wings Over Scotland
3d ago
Scotland’s fringe wankertariat has been terribly piqued by the amusing fact that Humza Yousaf’s infamous “WHITE!” speech has been reported as a hate crime more than any other event in Scotland since the introduction of the Hate Crime Act 12 days ago, on the grounds of its supposedly being racist. The Observer, for example, blamed ..read more
Wings Over Scotland
5d ago
Paraphrased from points made by a number of people this morning, including Sonia Sodha of the Observer and in a letter by Joanna Cherry of the SNP and Robin Harper, former leader of the Scottish Greens to the Chief Medical Officer of Scotland: The question is this: In the light of the Cass Review findings ..read more
Wings Over Scotland
6d ago
The Cass Review into gender medicine, which has been almost six long years in the making, was finally published this morning, and despite the fears of some – including us – that it was going to be watered down, it’s turned out to be an absolutely explosive document even on a quick skim. (It’s 388 ..read more
Wings Over Scotland
1w ago
We have a solution to this problem. (Story 1 and story 2.) In a spirit of unity, Wings officially endorses both statements ..read more
Wings Over Scotland
1w ago
Upper pic: Scottish Greens Spring Conference 2023. Lower pic: Scottish Greens Spring Conference 2024. Who can spot the missing word? It’s interesting to watch the Greens finesse their messaging in an election year. It looks like they know something that still eludes poor Humza Yousaf. (And let’s just take a moment to salute the SNP ..read more
Wings Over Scotland
1w ago
Holiday Boy is at the golfing again, so instead of a cartoon here’s something real that’s far bleaker than even he could come up with. Because that insipid collection of about four dozen wee baldy white men is, upsettingly, the real government of Scotland. Wings of course is a site edited by a wee baldy ..read more
Wings Over Scotland
2w ago
Thanks to the dedication of our legal team in working over the Easter holiday, Wings has unexpectedly received the formal Opinion of legal counsel (hereafter called “the Opinion”, capitalised to avoid confusion with the ordinary use of the word in the article) with regard to the standing of the site in the light of the ..read more
Wings Over Scotland
2w ago
Bookmark the links in this article, readers, because Wings might not be here tomorrow and it’s important. According to the Scottish Government, our beloved country is in the grip of a terrible epidemic of hatred. That’s plainly an unacceptable – one could also say intolerable – situation, and every last one of us must play ..read more