Wings Over Scotland
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Wings Over Scotland
1d ago
Well, what a nice statement of unity and tolerance this is: And only slightly undermined by coming from THIS guy: But Smith’s new message of tolerance hasn’t fully penetrated the party ranks. Dovydas Kuliešas works (or at least, did less than 18 months ago) for Emma Roddick MSP, who until yesterday was the minister responsible ..read more
Wings Over Scotland
1d ago
Comment seems superfluous, really. So we’ll just make a couple of the obvious points for the sake of it and then we’re off to the park. (1) As we told you yesterday, the Scottish Government/Parliament has, by the express and deliberate nature of its design, basically zero control over the economy. (2) In so far ..read more
Wings Over Scotland
3d ago
We watched a TV documentary about the sinking of the Bismarck last week. The most striking aspect of it was the visible and audible distress on the faces and in the voices of some of the Royal Navy sailors who’d been on the ships which sent the German battleship to the Atlantic seabed as they ..read more
Wings Over Scotland
4d ago
We were going to write a follow-up piece to this last week, until the SNP detonated a hand-grenade in its own trouser pocket. But with the coronation of John Swinney this afternoon after the only challenger sold out for some shiny beads and trinkets, we can get back to some serious news. The controversial charity ..read more
Wings Over Scotland
5d ago
We’ve already posted a shorter and snappier soundbite from this video on our Twitter, but it’s really worth watching the full version here: ? Because the body language is remarkable. For three and a half minutes, Neil Gray is completely unable to look his former colleague – an SNP MSP until a few months ago ..read more
Wings Over Scotland
1w ago
…just read Wings Over Scotland, folks. A year ago, when he was red-hot favourite with all the bookies, we told you that Angus Robertson wouldn’t even run for the SNP leadership, let alone win. And this time round, a week ago when SHE was still the red-hot favourite, we told you that Kate Forbes wouldn’t ..read more
Wings Over Scotland
1w ago
In the dying days of World War 2, as Berlin crumbled to rubble under Russian bombs and rockets, the Nazis played a desperate last card in the shape of the Volkssturm, an ad hoc fighting force primarily comprised of old men, invalided veterans and those not deemed fit for normal military service. (As most of ..read more
Wings Over Scotland
1w ago
So there it is. In a massive, humiliating and abrupt reverse, the Scottish Greens have announced that they’ll support the Scottish Government – still led for the foreseeable future by Humza Yousaf – in this week’s confidence motion. ?? Shockingly enough, the debate about the Greens’ principles, intellectual consistency and integrity was an extremely brief ..read more
Wings Over Scotland
1w ago
So Humza Yousaf has resigned, as we told you on Thursday night he would. But there was one interesting line in his farewell speech. The Scottish Greens made abundantly plain over the weekend that any idea of them supporting a government led by Yousaf was out of the question, and that their future backing for ..read more