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The Wings Pantomime 2013: Cindyrella 88

Posted on December 23, 2013 by

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Introducing… the Union Jocks 148

Posted on May 28, 2013 by

The No campaign makes for some unlikely bedfellows.

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We’d like you to meet our new favourite patriots.

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Johann Lamont does not speak for us. Here are 42 people who do. 46

Posted on May 22, 2012 by

Below is an open letter released today by the 42 signatories identified at the bottom. Wings Over Scotland endorses its contents, and urges its readers to republish and propagate the text as widely as possible by all available means.

Abdelbaset al-Megrahi has now died without having been able to clear his name of the destruction of Pan Am flight 103 on the 21st of December 1988 during his lifetime. Now all those politicians and Megrahi-guilt apologists who regard compassion as being a weakling’s alternative to vengeance, who boast of their skills at remote medical diagnosis, and who persistently refuse to address the uncomfortable facts of the case, will doubtless fall silent. Finally, the ‘evil terrorist’ has been called to account for himself before a ‘higher power’.

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