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Posted on August 12, 2026 by

The National runs headlines like this quite often.

The sort-of newspaper doesn’t actually have a sports section – it just publishes The Herald’s – but if it did you have to wonder what it would look like.

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The Party Of The Dead 204

Posted on August 06, 2026 by

The SNP’s latest accounts are out.

And the zombie shambles on for another year.

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Anatomy Of A Grift 46

Posted on August 05, 2026 by

It’s sometimes tempting to believe that transactivists, and in particular the extra-loud attention-seeking type, are simply mad and/or stupid. But that’s not always the case, because this sounds like some actually pretty cunning work.

(Click pic to enlarge.)

But let’s start at the beginning.

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The Plague 90

Posted on August 04, 2026 by

Ever-alert Wings readers will be aware that for the past three and a half years or so I’ve been the target of a campaign by disgraced former policeman Lynsay Watson, who over that period has relentlessly attempted to get me arrested, prosecuted and imprisoned for knowing – and saying – that human beings can’t change sex.

(As we’ll learn during this article, I am far from unique in that experience.)

Watson has made numerous ludicrous, vexatious complaints to various police forces about me – a particularly memorable one being when he reported me last September for “perverting the course of justice” because I’d tweeted a link to a fundraiser for someone being persecuted by another transactivist – as well as trying to extort tens of thousands of pounds from me with threats.

Yesterday, though, he finally found some police officers gullible enough to listen.

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Or Something 88

Posted on August 03, 2026 by

We have today sent the following email to the Crown Office.

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The Deaf Eyes 31

Posted on August 02, 2026 by

This email actually came in a couple of days ago, but we’ve been too dumbstruck to respond to it until now.

Because, like, wow.

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The Nobodies 239

Posted on July 27, 2026 by

Apologies for the slightly shonky quality of this video, readers, which is due to the fact that ITV are such monumental self-sabotaging clowns that it’s not actually possible to screencap any sort of digital broadcast of theirs – screw YOU, viral content! – so we had to do this by videoing our iPad with our iPhone.

Ouch. And speaking of monumental self-sabotaging clowns, Scottish Labour.

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Ain’t it funny how things change? 301

Posted on July 22, 2026 by

Then, and now. (Click pic to enlarge.)

Scottish politics: where repeated catastrophic failure is just another way to succeed.

The Wheels Of Industry 84

Posted on July 20, 2026 by

Last Friday’s edition of The National ran this guff:

And as we often are, we were put in mind of the greatest politics book ever written.

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Progressing To Oblivion 49

Posted on July 19, 2026 by

It’s now more than three years since this site drew attention to the curious case of Progress Scotland, the zombie “polling company” run by the SNP’s Angus Robertson that had no employees and hadn’t published any polls since October 2020, but was apparently still accepting, and soliciting, donations from subscribers, and appeared to have disposed of a rather substantial amount of money (well into six figures) without producing anything to show for it.

We followed up the next day with another article about the company’s repeated delays in producing its 2021 accounts, which finally showed up in May 2023.

Here’s what the Progress Scotland website looks like today.

And once more, a few questions spring to mind.

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These Words Are My Own 162

Posted on July 17, 2026 by

It’s been another fabulous day on the front pages for Nicola Sturgeon.

The stories were triggered by a speech in the House Of Commons from Tory MP Sir David Davis, which you can watch below.

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A Matter Of Declinature 170

Posted on July 15, 2026 by

Our solicitor has this afternoon written to the Deputy Chief Constable.

We’ll await his response with interest.

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