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
3h ago
We’ll make this short, because we’ve had a long day. Wings is told by a very reliable source that there’s ANOTHER emergency Cabinet meeting scheduled for tomorrow morning, which at least means we get to use this image now. So here’s the “exclusive” you’ll be getting from Paul Hutcheon seven hours from now. For a ..read more
Wings Over Scotland
11h ago
Oh, wait, scratch everything. Because this guy’s just wasting everybody’s time. And the reason is this: Because a vote of no confidence in the First Minister and a vote of no confidence in the Scottish Government are two entirely different things. The first one carries no legal force whatsoever – it’s basically just a ticking ..read more
Wings Over Scotland
11h ago
At FMQs today, Douglas Ross announced that he was putting down a motion of no confidence in the Scottish Government in the wake of the collapse of the Bute House agreement. That creates an enormously interesting situation, because the arithmetic of Parliament is extremely finely balanced, and particularly in the light of Patrick Harvie’s subsequent ..read more
Wings Over Scotland
11h ago
We tweeted this last night as a teaser for our big exclusive. (Which is now hilariously being claimed by Paul Hutcheon of the Daily Record seven hours later.) And it does now seem to be the case that the news is that the SNP are ending the Bute House Agreement and kicking out the Greens ..read more
Wings Over Scotland
1d ago
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 which has been heavily involved in not one but two serious child abuse scandals, one of them the most horrific in Scottish history. But ..read more
Wings Over Scotland
3d ago
While we all wait for the thing we all really want to happen this week, try to pretend that the disastrous and pitiful “indy march and rally” at the weekend never took place, and do our best to ignore the fact that thanks to the weakness of Nicola Sturgeon and Humza Yousaf our country’s government ..read more
Wings Over Scotland
5d ago
There are, at the most generous possible maximum estimate, maybe 1600 people here, including the wee knot of 100 or so Unionists circled at bottom left. That is now the size of the “mainstream independence movement”. (They weren’t tightly packed. Why would they be? Plenty room.) A few years ago, marches which the SNP shunned ..read more
Wings Over Scotland
1w ago
The pause button has been released. The day is finally here. And it’s one that EVERY supporter of independence should rejoice in. Obviously we’re very restricted in what we can say about what is now a live court case, due to Scotland’s draconian – if extremely selectively applied – contempt laws. Nothing in this article ..read more
Wings Over Scotland
1w ago
We unreservedly applaud the swiftness with which the office of the Official Report of the Scottish Parliament have delivered this answer, something which other bodies in Scotland could learn from. (Click pic to enlarge.) The content of it, however, is more disturbing. Because what Humza Yousaf said was this: “Why are we so surprised when ..read more