To the surprise of most of those watching, including ourselves, the Court Of Session delivered its judgement immediately at the end of today’s hearing, after only the most cursory of conflabs between the three august panel members.
The short version is that the Scottish Government lost, and must now comply with Wings reader Benjamin Harrop‘s FOI request regarding evidence that was supplied to independent adviser James Hamilton during his inquiry into the unlawful investigation of false allegations against Alex Salmond.
I am greatly honoured to have been targeted for censorship in the same weekend as two great artists as rightly esteemed as Salman Rushdie and Jerry Sadowitz. (Though thankful to have not yet been violently physically attacked for my views, as both have.)
To be honest, I was amazed my most recent Twitter account lasted three months. I set it up in May for the sole purpose of a throwaway rude reply to Darren “Loki” McGarvey and Kenny Farquharson of The Times, expecting it to be banned within hours, then somehow it had thousands of followers and I figured I might as well have a bit of fun with it for however long it lasted against the barrage of shrieking outrage and mass organised complaints from the SNP Twitler Youth.
Which turned out to be until Saturday night.
Twitter has declined to identify who I supposedly incited the harassment of, or to offer any examples of the offending tweets. Obviously I did no such thing, but it’s good to know that “in order to ensure that people feel safe expressing diverse opinions and beliefs on our platform”, only some opinions and beliefs may be expressed.
Just for a little bit of fun. This is actual footage of North Korean TV news (source: NK News) from today, but I thought it deserved a more moving soundtrack.
It is of course not for this site to question the judgement of Lady Dorrian (while noting that the verdict may well be subject to appeal and is therefore not yet final), although we do find some aspects of it somewhat troubling – particularly paragraph 74 in which the fate of a defendant appears to be held hostage to the speculative “imagination” of a hypothetical observer.
But it’s not the conviction (NB we are not lawyers and the strange civil/criminal hybrid that is the offence of contempt of court makes the correct terminology somewhat uncertain) of Craig Murray that’s the true cause for concern in this matter.
What’s alarming, as this site has noted previously, is the highly selective and partisan eye with which the Crown Office appears to be pursuing the offence.
yoon scum on For Children Scotland: “Chasing votes of gender loonies is confusing As they are a tiny tiny minority” May 3, 05:25
Young Lochinvar on For Children Scotland: “Remember back in 2000 there was a collective sigh of relief the computers didn’t switch off automatically and with the…” May 3, 01:24
Cynicus on For Children Scotland: ““Blighty” is a British English slang term for Great Britain, or often specifically England( WIKI) ====== V.O’B: are you seriously…” May 2, 23:58
Geri on The Takeover: “I’ll hold yer beer cause this one’s a belter up next… Nothing is left or Right anymore. Just crazed political…” May 2, 23:31
Karen on For Children Scotland: “Yes, principles make good law (as in Scots Law) – example The Law of Nuisance. Lists make bad law (as…” May 2, 22:37
Bilbo on For Children Scotland: “I have no interest in UK elections but from what I can gather the 2024 Labour election victory, which is…” May 2, 22:33
Geri on For Children Scotland: ““Why does the SNP have to make everything so complicated?” Because they’ve looked around themselves & can’t find anything more…” May 2, 22:17
Jay on The Takeover: “Caveman, when you refer to “rolling back all the insanity of the left” do you include undoing the neo-liberal privatising…” May 2, 21:58
Dan on For Children Scotland: “I thought it would have been more interesting and useful for Scotland to have been developing a clearly required strategy…” May 2, 20:36
Bilbo on For Children Scotland: “I see that Trans charities are trying to put pressure on the UK government over the UK Supreme court ruling:…” May 2, 18:53
GM on For Children Scotland: “..keyed their car or jilted their sister..? It depends whose car/sister IT IS maybe? Have I missed this story?” May 2, 18:51
Lorn on For Children Scotland: “The truth is that they never wanted it for women and girls. They couldn’t give ‘trans’ women (men) extra protection…” May 2, 18:50
Marie on For Children Scotland: “I agree – but Chapman and Slater would not have been able to do the damage they have done without…” May 2, 18:41
Bilbo on For Children Scotland: “Jontoscots21 “Fascist- someone you disagree with. Most of the unreformed lefties on here with their circle of concern extended to…” May 2, 18:35
Karen on For Children Scotland: “Cynical me thought the point of any new misogyny law (and indeed the Hate Crime Act), was to protect “transwomen”.…” May 2, 18:14
Oneliner on For Children Scotland: “Alas, in Blighty, infiltration can happen at the highest level of an organisation. Instances include Kim Philby (MI5/KGB) and Joe…” May 2, 17:02
Lorn on For Children Scotland: “John Swinney has said that they will amend the Hate Crime law to include misogyny against women and girls (not…” May 2, 16:51
Yoon Scum on For Children Scotland: “How will you convince soft NO voters like myself? Or is it already a vast majority for YES” May 2, 16:46
Yoon Scum on For Children Scotland: “The conversion therapy ban was a particularly evil policy As it would ban anyone from saying “Are you sure” I’m…” May 2, 16:33
Jontoscots21 on For Children Scotland: “Fascist- someone you disagree with. Most of the unreformed lefties on here with their circle of concern extended to the…” May 2, 16:28
Yoon Scum on For Children Scotland: “Farage The man who showed that you should never believe politicians who tell you leaving a union is easy and…” May 2, 16:26
Lorn on For Children Scotland: “The ban on conversion therapy, in reality, would have been a ban on the ban of conversion therapy because conversion…” May 2, 16:17
Lorn on For Children Scotland: “It was suggested, Scott, by the women’s groups who were totally ignored. The only reason they wanted it introduced is…” May 2, 15:41
Shug on For Children Scotland: “To be honest dropping this shit is no hit it us a success. Does Swinney have the balls to deliver…” May 2, 15:11
BLMac on For Children Scotland: “‘How did the world end up with so many crazies ruling it?’ Because no one is game to do what…” May 2, 15:03
Vivian O’Blivion on For Children Scotland: “In other news probably more pertinent to the previous thread, the German permanent state has declared Alternative fur Deutchland (AfD)…” May 2, 14:58
Effijy on For Children Scotland: “My big story of the day is England looking to install Farage as their Prime Minister. The man with the…” May 2, 14:31
joolz on For Children Scotland: “I welcome them dropping the ‘conversion’ bill but one of your headlines says ‘Scottish ministers shelve plans for new misogyny…” May 2, 14:02
Aidan on For Children Scotland: “We all know conversion practices aimed at changing a person’s sexuality are abhorrent, but as far as I am aware…” May 2, 13:55
Vivian O’Blivion on For Children Scotland: “The conversion therapy legislation in its fundamentalist drafting was substantially the brain fart of Emma Roddick when she was Meenister…” May 2, 13:21
