Bottle Rockets 263
Posted on
June 01, 2024 by
Chris Cairns
Archive for the ‘comment’
The Chef’s Kiss 318
Posted on
May 30, 2024 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The Scottish public were just given a surprising answer to the question “Is it possible to be TOO much of a creepy misogynist pornsick nutcase for even the Scottish Greens?”
But goodness gracious, that last line is a stone-cold mic-drop.
The forgotten women 227
Posted on
May 28, 2024 by
Laura Jones
Last week’s controversy around the Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre put the spotlight on the need for single-sex services to protect vulnerable women, but it’s very far from the only example of how Scottish women are being let down in this regard by both the Scottish Government and civic organisations.
The homelessness system in Scotland has collapsed. Emergency accommodation is dangerous, sub-standard, and overcrowded. There has been an epidemic of deaths in hotels and B&Bs in recent years.
Shockingly, 67 women in Scotland have died in homeless accommodation over the three-year period up to 2022, the most recent figures available, and the situation is steadily getting worse. Read the rest of this entry →
The Misogyny Alliance 99
Posted on
May 24, 2024 by
Magi Gibson
As a writer, feminist and literary events organiser in Scotland, I’m regularly sent links to information someone thinks might be of interest to me. This week it was a document commissioned by one of Scotland’s leading and most powerful publicly-funded literary organisations, Literature Alliance Scotland (LAS).
Nobody, of course, objects to transgender writers being included or supported, but the content of the guidance raises several extremely serious and concerning issues.
Contractual obligations 99
Posted on
May 24, 2024 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We suppose we should talk about the general election for a bit.
It’s going to be awful. Will that do?
Adam Ramsay Is Definitely A Liar 126
Posted on
May 22, 2024 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
There’s something very unusual – possibly unique, we think – about the reaction of the transactivist community to this week’s tribunal judgement in Roz Adams vs Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre (ERCC).
Normally in cases like these, there’s an instant and concerted attempt to rubbish the judgement, both from amateurs and activist lawyers like Robin Moira “Barry” White, Jolyon Maugham, and the anonymous “Pissed Off Lawyer” tweeting as @legaltweetz. They’ll issue spurious “analyses” dismissing the findings with jargon terms like “obiter”, and either question their correctness or attempt to minimise their significance.
For some reason that didn’t happen this time. The hyper-antagonist online trans army has very conspicuously failed to rush to the defence of ERCC CEO Mridul Wadhwa, perhaps because Judge Ian McFatridge’s conclusions were so relentlessly, brutally and comprehensively excoriating of Wadhwa’s appalling behaviour that no amount of spin or disingenuity could disguise it.
But then, on white charger and with papoose, enter a hero.
Ladies and gentlemen (and non-binary genderfluids), meet Adam Ramsay.
A Better Togetherness 359
Posted on
May 15, 2024 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The National have buried this pretty quickly in understandable embarrassment:
Because some things are just a little TOO on-the-nose for comfort.
You’ve Been Had 268
Posted on
May 13, 2024 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The picture editor of The Times must have been delighted with this gift.
But it’s a very accurate picture, and fairly used.
The Circus Of Hate 286
Posted on
May 09, 2024 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Well, what a nice statement of unity and tolerance this is:
And only slightly undermined by coming from THIS guy:
But Smith’s new message of tolerance hasn’t fully penetrated the party ranks.
