The Rules For The Rich And Famous 335
Posted on
April 03, 2024 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
So here’s a thing.
But that’s not how the Hate Crime Act is supposed to work.
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Talking nonce sense 72
Posted on
April 12, 2021 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The furore over a declaration signed by a number of Scottish organisations which appears to clearly call for the age of sexual consent to be reduced to 10 continues today, with a couple of appallingly biased articles in the Scotsman and the Times which attempt to use the controversy to attack both the Alba Party (as a distraction from its powerful key manifesto release on women’s rights) and this website.
Even just the tweet above by the author of the Times piece fails all kinds of basic journalistic standards of impartiality, but the article itself is vastly worse.
The Stockholm Troopers 697
Posted on
April 28, 2020 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Anyone up for their taxes being used to bail out Scottish newspapers?
No, we didn’t think so.
Before the truth has its boots on 70
Posted on
September 28, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We’ve been keeping coverage of our ongoing court battle with former Scottish Labour branch manager Kezia Dugdale to a minimum on the site, partly because little of any material impact has actually happened yet.
However, there was a mildly interesting development last night, which was scooped and accurately reported by the Scottish Sun.
Reactions to the party’s statement have already seen serious amounts of what we’re generously going to call “misinformation” generated and circulating around social media, so we’re going to have to clear some of it up. Apologies.
The bad losers 322
Posted on
August 02, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The BBC’s Reporting Scotland is, in our view, directly responsible for at least 80% of Yes supporters’ belief that the UK’s state broadcaster is biased against independence. Almost all of the worst examples of unbalanced or downright dishonest coverage over the last five years come from the flagship teatime bulletin.
But last night’s edition made even the most wearily cynical jaws drop.
Let’s just take that in for a moment.
The Warships Of Damocles 108
Posted on
July 02, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Of all the tropes of the 2014 independence referendum, few were fought over more repeatedly and bitterly, or more dishonestly by the No campaign, than the saga of the Type 26 frigates. The UK government promised Clyde shipbuilders hit hard by years of neglect and job losses that it would build 13 of the state-of-the-art vessels at BAE’s Scotstoun yard, but only if Scots voted No.
Once that vote was secured the number very swiftly dropped to eight, accompanied by a whirlwind of misinformation insisting that there had in fact been no reduction. (As keen social media users will know, this brazen lie was pushed particularly hard by the militarist website UK Defence Journal.)
So we were interested to see a story in today’s Scotland On Sunday which showed how desperate the Unionist side is to cling on to the ships as a future blackmail tool.
The paper has chosen to present the news with a super-positive spin, as you can see from the headline. But the text of the article tells a very different story.
With our shield, or on it 212
Posted on
April 03, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Actually, mighty King Leonidas is understating here. It was 311% in the end.
Wings Over Scotland 2017 fundraiser total: £140,047.
The professor of pish 171
Posted on
October 15, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We weren’t going to take Professor Adam Tomkins’ hysterical “NATMAGEDDON!” article for this week’s Spectator seriously enough to pull it apart line by line.
But once we’d wiped the tears from our eyes we thought we’d better do our job.
How to lie without even trying 232
Posted on
November 29, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Disavowed 187
Posted on
November 04, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Below is a letter from the editor of the Daily Record sent to a Wings reader yesterday (and, we presume, to many others). We thought you might find it interesting.
Becoming the story 575
Posted on
June 14, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The story in yesterday’s Scotsman carrying outrageous and defamatory slurs against me has today vanished from its website. There’s nothing by way of an apology or correction in the paper’s usual page 2 corrections column, however, and there’s been no reply to either my email of yesterday morning or the letter our solicitor sent yesterday afternoon. Be assured, readers, that the matter won’t rest there.
But today things are even more interesting.
Straight to the bottom 131
Posted on
May 31, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We don’t have the faintest idea what effect (if any) the Tory-millionaire-run “Vote No Borders” campaign might be having on the general public, but for those of us analysing the referendum campaign it’s the gift that keeps on giving.
Whether it’s the extremely suspicious nature of its funding, its employees airbrushing their CVs to remove any mention of ever working for it or the unashamedly blatant misinformation it’s been pumping out remorselessly over a wide range of subjects, it looks increasingly like a very expensive attempt to make “Better Together” appear moderate, reasonable and likeable by comparison.
Last night, in response to a media furore ignited by Wings Over Scotland’s revelation that it had pulled a cinema ad about the NHS after angry complaints from Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, the group finally published an extraordinary, sour and petulant official statement about the incident. As far as apologies go, we think it’s fair to say it leaves something to be desired.
It’s well worth a breakdown.
