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
2d ago
Way back in the day, the Lib Dems in particular, but also other parties and the “Better Together” campaign, were infamous for the “dodgy barchart” tactic. And so degraded is the modern SNP, it’s now scraping the same barrel. Here’s a graphic the party’s MSPs have been tweeting this week, made up to look like ..read more
Wings Over Scotland
5d ago
In the recent US election, the Democrats made a huge play out of the notion that the very concept of democracy itself was at risk if Donald Trump won. And yet his eventual victory was unquestionably democratic. Not only did Trump win under the electoral college system by a huge 312-226 margin, and secure control ..read more
Wings Over Scotland
5d ago
Peter Murrell really ought to have seen the writing on the wall a while ago. But at least it’s in keeping with her track record. (Nicola Sturgeon resigned less than two years later.) (There was no fresh independence referendum.) (Only 1 in 10 pupils had received their free laptop when the scheme was scrapped.) (The ..read more
Wings Over Scotland
6d ago
Y’know, maybe we were a little harsh on the lads at Holyrood Sources yesterday when we implied that a more direct and aggressive interviewing style might have cut through John Swinney and Kate Forbes’ pathetically feeble waffling evasion on the SNP’s lack of an independence strategy in their recent podcast. But the closest thing (along ..read more
Wings Over Scotland
1w ago
Don’t watch this. You’ll only waste 12 minutes of your life making yourself angry. ? It’s our job to be angry for you. Quite aside from anything else, the title is a barefaced lie. There is nothing remotely resembling a “route to independence” aired anywhere in the interview. Despite being gently pressed by former SNP ..read more
Wings Over Scotland
1w ago
The National carried a strange article yesterday, apropos of seemingly nothing, about a Brussels-based political thinktank supposedly linked to the right-wing Prime Minister of Hungary, Viktor Orban. The piece actually originated on superwoke “fact-checking” site The Ferret a couple of days earlier, and professed to expose how the thinktank was “stoking Scotland’s culture war”. Alert ..read more
Wings Over Scotland
1w ago
As more horrific experiences from survivors of rape torture gangs surface from across the UK, we must focus not on knee-jerk political posturing but on the root cause that led to the failure of these children by our society. ? Political inaction has now opened the door to inevitable political mileage, nurtured from stoking vengeance ..read more
Wings Over Scotland
1w ago
Any rational assessment of Scottish (or indeed UK or world) politics at the moment tends to be negative and depressing, so since it’s a new year we thought we’d make an extra-special effort at writing something positive. Unfortunately that does require us to enter the realm of fantasy. But hey, everybody needs a little holiday ..read more
Wings Over Scotland
1w ago
Nobody really answered the question in this article from a few days ago. A few of the dimmer bulbs in the indy movement have been getting over-excited at what are still currently a couple of outlier polls from fringe polling companies, which suggest that the 2026 election could unexpectedly return a pro-indy majority due to ..read more