The day job 164
Posted on
November 25, 2020 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We’ve just been alerted to a new FOI response. It pretty much speaks for itself.
But it’s worth pondering the numbers.
Author Archive
Bustin’ flushes 107
Posted on
November 25, 2020 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
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.
Pete’s Perfect Plan 241
Posted on
November 24, 2020 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The Faction Factory 246
Posted on
November 23, 2020 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Sometimes, despite everything, you just have to laugh.
No matter how black and rueful a laugh it might be.
Any minute now 129
Posted on
November 22, 2020 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
From 2016 (and another classic in the “missing words” category).
We were keen to read the article, obviously.
Hate in numbers 190
Posted on
November 20, 2020 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
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.
The state is not her 224
Posted on
November 19, 2020 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
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.
But you know us, readers – we like to check.
Almost there 38
Posted on
November 18, 2020 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We genuinely empathise, anonymous senior Scottish Tory.
If only there was some solution available.
Mushroom food 594
Posted on
November 15, 2020 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
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:
Try to keep it clean, folks.
All the jolly boys and girls 377
Posted on
November 11, 2020 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
As more and more information fights its way past the Scottish Government’s bouncers into the public domain, and the First Minister’s continued dogged insistence that she knew nothing about the false allegations against Alex Salmond until April 2018 looks more and more ridiculous, lots of things still aren’t clear.
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.
(The Information Commissioner’s Office investigated the leak but were sadly unable to locate any evidence. A second investigation is currently in progress.)
So let’s see what we know.
The limits of accountability 166
Posted on
November 10, 2020 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The SNP has still not provided any sort of meaningful answer, either to this site or to anyone else, over the missing £600,000 from the party’s accounts that was supposedly “ring-fenced” for a future independence campaign and not under any circumstances to be spent on normal party politics.
Enquiries from members and even elected representatives have met with a wall of silence for months, so we were more than a little surprised to be forwarded a recent email exchange in which the SNP’s chief executive had engaged in discussion on the subject with someone who isn’t even in the party.
We thought you’d be interested in reading it.
Brenda Isn’t A Sheep 185
Posted on
November 09, 2020 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
A reader alerted us to this. (You can skip the first minute.)
It’s a book currently being given to P1 children in Scotland, via the Scottish Book Trust. (We’re sure that by Christmas it’ll be getting read to them in class by drag queens.) And it’s something that people should probably be concerned about.
