Wings Over Scotland has been monitoring the BBC’s coverage of Scottish politics for over 11 years now, readers, and other than The Nick Robinson Incident we’re honestly struggling to remember seeing anything worse than this.
The Corporation’s “coverage” of Ash Regan’s campaign launch for the SNP leadership election ran for roughly seven minutes. And we suppose we should be grateful that it did at one point feature a brief, incidental cameo appearance from Ash Regan.
We read some harrowing tweets this week from an Edinburgh SNP activist. Sensitive readers should look away now, as the following article contains potentially triggering information about the wild and lawless streets of [checks notes] Corstorphine.
It’s remarkable how openly a certain faction of the SNP is now declaring surrender.
And it’s becoming increasingly clear that the events of the next few days and weeks will not just determine the future of the independence movement, but whether in any meaningful, practical sense it continues to exist at all.
A major piece by the Corporation’s Scotland editor James Cook focused on interviews with two of the three contenders – excluding Ash Regan – on the basis that both had launched their official campaigns yesterday while Regan’s isn’t expected to be until later this week.
So this is interesting. Last week we were about to release some results from our latest Panelbase poll when events intervened. Naturally we’d asked a few questions about gender issues, and one of them concerned the Scottish Government’s potential legal challenge to the UK government’s use of a Section 35 order to block the Gender Recognition Reform bill.
There were three options in the question, and as luck would have it the three potential new leaders of the SNP each advocates a different one.
Mark Beggan on Response Level Upgrade: “They tried that with Team GB, went down like a Tranny in woman’s changing room.” Jun 15, 17:23
agentx on Response Level Upgrade: “After the Court decision today there should be an IMMEDIATE BAN ON GAY COUPLES adopting children.” Jun 15, 17:21
Confused on Response Level Upgrade: “Much as I have no interest in the rosbifs winning anything, I know a bit (too much) about english football;…” Jun 15, 17:10
Ebok on Response Level Upgrade: “Service Adviser 19(89)84(7)? SNP left me in 2016 and has done so to ever increasing numbers of its members since…” Jun 15, 16:47
Spartan 117 on Response Level Upgrade: “I also played midfield briefly in my 20s, for whatever relevance that is. I’ve nothing against Fitba’ and wish our…” Jun 15, 15:30
Hatey McHateface on Response Level Upgrade: “The “cup marks” the Picts left on their sacred and symbolic liths were pictorial representations of winning set piece tactics.…” Jun 15, 14:59
Hatey McHateface on Response Level Upgrade: “If you’re saying that Scottish culture consists of cash-strapped Scots scrimping and doing without to richly reward prima donnas, their…” Jun 15, 14:51
Hatey McHateface on Response Level Upgrade: “Good one, Northy. Football is like politics right enough. A zero sum game. One side is victorious, the other is…” Jun 15, 14:35
Hatey McHateface on Response Level Upgrade: “How many years (and how many World Cups) is it since I twigged that your typical self-identifying Indy supporter would…” Jun 15, 14:27
Southernbystander on Response Level Upgrade: “The English stopped believing the England team are just an underachieving heavyweight long, long before 2014, like when the team…” Jun 15, 14:27
Northcode on Response Level Upgrade: “Albert Einstein (yes, really) — played as a youth in Munich Einstein wasn’t a competitive player, but he did play…” Jun 15, 14:17
Hatey McHateface on Response Level Upgrade: ““The Scottish accent is the most trusted in the world” Of course, it can only be trusted where it is…” Jun 15, 14:14
Alf Baird on Response Level Upgrade: “All you folks seek to do is de-base Scottish culture. But we know, ‘that is how colonialism works, by de-basing…” Jun 15, 14:12
Captain Caveman on Response Level Upgrade: “Yawn. More verbose, witless, irrelevant drivel. My original comment stands. You bore me beyond belief.” Jun 15, 14:05
Northcode on Response Level Upgrade: “Aye, Confused, there’s a fair bit of clutchery goes on in this place at times. This: “Football is a politico-philosophical…” Jun 15, 14:03
sam on Response Level Upgrade: “In the national Library of Scotland – “Forty years of Shite: The Complete and Utter Awfulness of the England Football…” Jun 15, 13:44
Northcode on Response Level Upgrade: ““Gah, you’re such a witless troll, Northcode…” Gah… the sound of an Anglo’s patience snapping like a twig (a point…” Jun 15, 13:30
Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh on Response Level Upgrade: “Thanks, Cynicus. Greatly appreciated.” Jun 15, 13:11
Cynicus on Response Level Upgrade: “Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh says: 14 June, 2026 at 12:24 am If “even Homer sometimes nods” (recent exchange on Wings thread), then…” Jun 15, 12:43
Captain Caveman on Response Level Upgrade: “Gah, you’re such a witless troll, Northcode, you’re not even remotely good at it. Deliberately misquoting someone..? Lawks! Anyone would…” Jun 15, 12:41
Mark Beggan on Response Level Upgrade: “Are Police Scotland guilty of misinformation? Deliberately and with intent to hide the truth.” Jun 15, 12:36
sam on Response Level Upgrade: “Scottish fans are more engaged than English fans. Scotland’s top-flight league having the highest attendance per capita in Europe at…” Jun 15, 12:33
Mark Beggan on Response Level Upgrade: “A large number of heterosexual males gathered together scares the shit out of them.” Jun 15, 12:32
Confused on Response Level Upgrade: “oh aye – Albert Camus was a goalkeeper. as was Niels Bohr. morons.” Jun 15, 12:31
Confused on Response Level Upgrade: “one of the drawbacks of these times is an epidemic of a powerful mind virus – english-cunt-itis – to be…” Jun 15, 12:23
Confused on Response Level Upgrade: “I detect a lot of middle class handbag clutching going on; football is the dance of the working class, and…” Jun 15, 12:21
agentx on Response Level Upgrade: “Scotland (and their fans) are only at the World Cup because they are a colonised nation. Isn’t that how the…” Jun 15, 12:18
Mark Beggan on Response Level Upgrade: “There was a young man called Spartan. Who couldn’t understand what was happenin. With a rant and a rave He…” Jun 15, 12:13
