Game for a laugh 348
Posted on
April 17, 2021 by
Chris Cairns
Archive for the ‘comment’
Women Won’t Wheesht 359
Posted on
April 16, 2021 by
For Women Scotland
Yesterday the SNP released their 2021 election manifesto, and on the divisive subject of gender reform it was as bad as we feared. Yes, there is obfuscation to mask intent, but the intent is crystal clear all the same. Especially if we judge the SNP by their record and all the things they have failed – and continued to fail – to address.
The manifesto commits to reforming the GRA while ensuring that it will not affect the rights or protections women enjoy under the Equality Act.
But what, in reality, does that mean?
Talking nonce sense 72
Posted on
April 12, 2021 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The furore over a declaration signed by a number of Scottish organisations which appears to clearly call for the age of sexual consent to be reduced to 10 continues today, with a couple of appallingly biased articles in the Scotsman and the Times which attempt to use the controversy to attack both the Alba Party (as a distraction from its powerful key manifesto release on women’s rights) and this website.
Even just the tweet above by the author of the Times piece fails all kinds of basic journalistic standards of impartiality, but the article itself is vastly worse.
If it hit you in the eye 156
Posted on
April 10, 2021 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The Paedophile Charter 219
Posted on
April 10, 2021 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
While watching reports from the Alba Party women’s conference that took place this afternoon, we saw something that we thought must be wrong.
But it wasn’t.
The Big Sleep 503
Posted on
April 09, 2021 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
If you still can’t see it, you’re probably never going to wake up.
But have a little think about those highlighted words this morning anyway.
This won’t take a minute 177
Posted on
April 05, 2021 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
At the weekend we all beheld the bizarre sight of two supposed investigative Scottish politics journalists sneering and trying to play down what appeared to be a genuinely major story about a live police inquiry into a possible £600,000 criminal fraud involving the party of government in Scotland.
Both of them work for the same rival outlet, so the most generous interpretation that could reasonably be put on their curious behaviour is that they were simply trying to focus attention instead on that outlet’s own big Sunday splash – also ostensibly a story of political fraud, albeit on a much smaller scale.
So let’s just clear that one up now to help them out.
Quote of the week 149
Posted on
April 02, 2021 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We’re currently busy pursuing a rather larger story, readers, but to keep you amused in the meantime we thought we’d share this absolute belter from Wings contributor Angus MacNeil MP today in The National:
Deftly put. Now back to work with us.
The rules of the game 429
Posted on
April 01, 2021 by
Morag Kerr
I’m already sick of all this rubbish about “gaming the system”.
When Labour set up the Scottish Parliament in 1999 they could have expected eternal rule if they’d based it on First Past The Post like the UK Parliament, but the Lib Dems insisted on PR as their price for co-operation and the appearance of consensus.
So between them they put together the AMS system (although virtually any PR system would probably have done much the same thing) which would ensure, they believed, that the SNP would never hold power alone, and would therefore never be able to use the parliament as a vehicle to deliver independence.
