Wings Over Scotland

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• Southernbystander on The Curious Fringes: “A better term would be hard right. They are the equivalent of a proper hard left socialist party on the…” Dec 31, 10:46
• Alf Baird on The Curious Fringes: “Tut tut, auld year’s day an oor colonizer aye canna resist dividin an de-basin the native fowk an thair ain…” Dec 31, 10:00
• Northcode on The Curious Fringes: “Here, whit a braw cauld an frosty stert tae the dey is theis mornyn. A fine dey tae end the…” Dec 31, 09:45
• Hatey McHateface on The Curious Fringes: “The most wonderful thing about this kind of post from oor verra ain Northie is the crass ignorance it reveals.…” Dec 31, 09:37
• diabloandco on The Curious Fringes: “A guid new year to wan and a’ – though I hae ma doots.” Dec 31, 09:26
• Hatey McHateface on The Curious Fringes: ““start up your own blog performed solely in the medium of Scots language and see what traction that gains” Something…” Dec 31, 09:21
• Northcode on The Curious Fringes: ““I was punished at School for speaking Scots, it is nice to see it being wrote down again. and I…” Dec 31, 09:11
• Hatey McHateface on The Curious Fringes: “So Swinney and Rev Stu are in agreement then? I’d place my bets accordingly, although as the bookies also agree,…” Dec 31, 09:08
• Northcode on The Curious Fringes: “Well here we are at last, eh? The final day of the 25th year of the 21st century… and guid…” Dec 31, 09:00
• Hatey McHateface on The Curious Fringes: ““used to speak north east Scots at home” But that’s not the authentic, ‘true’ Scots. If anybody ever attenpted to…” Dec 31, 08:59
• Hatey McHateface on The Curious Fringes: “The Scots on the outside looked from WGD BTL to WOS BTL, and from WOS BTL to WGD BTL again,…” Dec 31, 08:40
• Cynicus on The Curious Fringes: “Apologies to Mr. Ellis for misplaced posting intended for Prof Baird” Dec 31, 02:40
• Cynicus on The Curious Fringes: “Alf Baird says: 30 December, 2025 at 2:49 pm “a language the majority don’t understand” ======= Alf, if you have…” Dec 31, 02:36
• Cynicus on The Curious Fringes: “Alf Baird says: 30 December, 2025 at 2:49 pm “a language the majority don’t understand” ======= Alf, if you have…” Dec 31, 02:33
• James Cheyne on The Curious Fringes: “TURABDIN, Is it still a kings shilling? Perhaps its turned-into the-faith of all coinage,” Dec 30, 23:03
• James Cheyne on The Curious Fringes: “Never be shamed into avoidance of you’re mother tongue and language, Many times we have been punished because we did,…” Dec 30, 22:56
• Mark Beggan on The Curious Fringes: ““Everybody knows that the dice are loaded Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed Everybody knows the war is over Everybody…” Dec 30, 22:08
• Northcode on The Curious Fringes: ““Scots is important enough to be taught in schools.” Indeed, Sam. I think the Scots leid is a fantastic language…” Dec 30, 21:52
• Aidan on The Curious Fringes: “I should add the “1.5m identified as Scots speakers . . “” Dec 30, 21:30
• Aidan on The Curious Fringes: “@Sam perhaps there is some nuance that I’m missing but “Scots identified as Scots speakers and another 267,000 understood it”.…” Dec 30, 20:54
• Mark Beggan on The Curious Fringes: “‘I pulled into Nazareth just about half past dead. I just need to find a place where I can lay…” Dec 30, 20:48
• sam on The Curious Fringes: “It is a minority of Scots who speak Scots. Even so the 2011 Census tells us that 1.5 million Scots…” Dec 30, 20:10
• TURABDIN on The Curious Fringes: “British politics is overwhelmingly English, has the party of Scotland even noticed? Taken the king’s shilling maybe?” Dec 30, 18:30
• Northcode on The Curious Fringes: ““May 2026 bring us closer to our shared view, however different our paths.” Agreed… a noble sentiment and one fitting…” Dec 30, 17:41
• Andy Ellis on The Curious Fringes: “@ Northcode Season’s greetings to you, to yours and even the other usual suspects. May 2026 bring us closer to…” Dec 30, 17:22
• Chris Downie on The Curious Fringes: “I saw various posts on the old FB live feed today showing Swinney proclaiming in a recent interview that he…” Dec 30, 17:22
• Rob on The Curious Fringes: “The fact that the SNP have been the government for some years because a majority voted for them does not…” Dec 30, 17:10
• Northcode on The Curious Fringes: “I thank you for your kind sentiments, Mr Ellis. I look forward to the day, as do you, when we…” Dec 30, 17:06
• 100%Yes on The Curious Fringes: “The national, the writers who write for the RAG the two dave’s, Saorsa, Gordon Ross, Scot goes pop and others…” Dec 30, 16:40
• Alf Baird on The Curious Fringes: ““So why are they against independence?” Postcolonial theory (Fanon) tells us that a dominant national party ‘lacks courage at the…” Dec 30, 16:24