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
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
3d 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
5d 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
5d 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
Wings Over Scotland
6d ago
Correct us if we’re wrong, but isn’t this guy: …the same man who LITERALLY just passed a law dividing Scotland into groups of people who are worthy of protection from hatred and those who aren’t? (Most notably women and people who know what sex they are.) Is he, then, a “bad faith actor”? Maybe we ..read more
Wings Over Scotland
1w 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
1w 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
1w 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
1w 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