This week on Wings has been altogether more navel-gazey than we’re comfortable with, as various SNP MPs have mounted a series of all-out personal attacks on the site before the weekend’s crucial NEC elections.
So we’ll have a proper article for you a little later on today, but in the meantime it’d be remiss of us not to tidy up the last fragments of shrapnel, so we’ll direct you to the right of reply to Alyn Smith’s column that The National kindly gave us today:
(Sadly they chose to disable comments, we’d quite have enjoyed the reaction from the few remaining diehard leadership loyalists still posting there.)
We couldn’t help but chuckle yesterday when the £100K-a-year Westminster MP and obsessive Wings Over Scotland reader “Pension Pete” Wishart announced – in the space of six minutes – that this site was simultaneously an irrelevance that nobody listened to, but also somehow one of the greatest threats to independence.
Wings Over Scotland marked its ninth birthday earlier this month. To be honest, we totally forgot about it until someone reminded us. Normally we mark the anniversary with a small reflection and taking of stock over how things are going, but this year we couldn’t be bothered – we’d already mentioned readership stats in August.
But today in The National we found out that we were apparently dead.
But reports of our demise have been, as the saying goes, somewhat exaggerated.
The Scottish Parliament will today almost certainly pass a dangerously misleading and inaccurate motion to mark “Transgender Day Of Remembrance”, and in doing so will join countless other institutions across the UK captured by trans ideology to the great detriment of women’s rights, freedom of speech and general sanity.
So we thought we’d mark it with a very short fact check.
One of the dumber things we see regularly posted on social media is that Yes voices should stop criticising the First Minister because her leadership is the only reason Yes is now consistently ahead in the polls and we would have no chance of winning a new referendum with someone else in charge.
This is obviously nonsense, because Nicola Sturgeon was SNP leader and FM for five years in which support moved barely a single millimetre, until COVID-19 came along. Our current lead is due entirely to a tiny invisible virus and a giant Etonian buffoon.
We were going to write a post about today’s Sunday National front page lead story, but it would just have been an angry rant, so instead we’ll let our readers make their own judgements on how convinced they are by this bloviating guff:
One of them, of course, is who leaked the story to Davie Clegg of the Daily Record in August of that year, when the whole thing should have been confidential and passing it to the press was an unambiguously malicious and criminal act.
Mark Beggan on Looking up at the stars: “You should have slept well. No one be reads it anyway.” Mar 12, 03:18
James on Looking up at the stars: “Ah yes, infiltration is the key….. The old colonialists are expert.” Mar 12, 02:06
Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh on Looking up at the stars: “GOVT DITCHES NON-CRIME HATE INCIDENTS (England & Wales) A Government amendment removing the statutory basis for non-crime hate incidents (NCHIs)…” Mar 12, 00:47
Young Lochinvar on Looking up at the stars: “J The long haired one certainly did walk a bit like the ministry of funny walks 🙂” Mar 12, 00:34
Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh on Looking up at the stars: “PUBLIC STATEMENT BY SALVOSCOT LTD & LIBERATION SCOTLAND COMMITTEE Response to Defamatory Statements by JPTi In November 2025, the…” Mar 12, 00:33
Geri on Looking up at the stars: “Hubris. It gets the empire every time. Trump is the babbling idiot but the real evil is the unelected evil…” Mar 11, 22:17
diabloandco on Looking up at the stars: “Really Geri? Thanks for the information – it seems entirely wrong that that should be allowed.” Mar 11, 22:09
Northcode on Looking up at the stars: “” It is historically indisputable…” I dispute your historically indisputable ‘stuff’. What some, the ignorant and deluded, call colonization others…” Mar 11, 21:52
Alf Baird on Looking up at the stars: “” the people of Scotland have been among the most efficient and enthusiastic colonisers” You may find of interest the…” Mar 11, 21:18
Sven on Looking up at the stars: “Hopefully addressing the problems experienced by the original RR gas turbines by installing three, greater capacity diesel generators at considerable…” Mar 11, 21:17
Geri on Looking up at the stars: “Scotland hasn’t colonised anyone. Can you point to our overseas territories where we rule over a ppl? The City of…” Mar 11, 21:03
Northcode on Looking up at the stars: “Correction: that ‘other’ should read ‘others’ plural – otherwise the intended meaning is lost in the sentence which should read…” Mar 11, 20:10
Northcode on Looking up at the stars: “This what bullies do when they get caught… bullies being cowards. They try to pull other, innocent parties, into their…” Mar 11, 19:59
agentx on Looking up at the stars: ““Fyona Bairstow, 72, and Michael Bairstow, 77, abused Apple Moorhouse in Manor Heath Park, Halifax, on 28 August last year…” Mar 11, 19:33
Northcode on Looking up at the stars: “I’ve been perusing todays unionist (colonist if preferred… same thing) mincin and mingin and mangleezed insults comments and comparing them…” Mar 11, 19:29
James on Looking up at the stars: “Had one of them shit himself? If so, the other yin was Beggan…..” Mar 11, 19:27
Young Lochinvar on Looking up at the stars: “Anyone else see the clip on the news of the old couple racially abusing the Philipino woman in a park…” Mar 11, 19:13
Northcode on Looking up at the stars: “An observation: Someone who would destroy the world economy for no apparent reason is not an evil genius…. just evil,…” Mar 11, 19:05
Hatey McHateface on Looking up at the stars: “Wheesht, factchecker. Our illustrious forebears were only following orders. Some big, bad, Inglis barsturts made them do it. And then…” Mar 11, 18:22
factchecker on Looking up at the stars: “Our resident professor tells us that ” a nation which colonizes, a civilization which justifies colonization – and therefore force…” Mar 11, 18:03
Hatey McHateface on Looking up at the stars: “Wahey, James is up! It must have finally healed. But as he’s hunched over it, pumping away, he’s not upright.…” Mar 11, 17:58
David Holden on Looking up at the stars: “Enter the Dragon. The spot of bother in the gulf will be over soon as Sir Keith has dispatched HMS…” Mar 11, 17:47
James on Looking up at the stars: “The site Prick is in urgent need of a double dose of immodium. They’re spilling out of him without even…” Mar 11, 17:05
James Che on Looking up at the stars: “robertkknight, Thats because all the codgers in the holyrood parliament are a sub division of the parliament of the united…” Mar 11, 17:05
Hatey McHateface on Looking up at the stars: “@ Geri says: 11 March, 2026 at 3:54 pm “It’s printing press” “it’s line of credit” “it’s economy” The Mystic…” Mar 11, 16:12
Hatey McHateface on Looking up at the stars: “Oh FFS, Alf. There’s hardly a Scottish family in the land that doesn’t have relatives in the Colonies. Plenty will…” Mar 11, 15:56
Geri on Looking up at the stars: “It’s about to get a whole lot sicker… It’s printing press & it’s line of credit is just about to…” Mar 11, 15:54
Alf Baird on Looking up at the stars: ““Isn’t the Indy movement sprinkled with simpering pathetic fools” The main concern of the colonized is or should be focused…” Mar 11, 15:38
