The elephants outside 146
Posted on
November 28, 2020 by
Chris Cairns
Archive for the ‘comment’
The Worst People In Scotland 124
Posted on
November 27, 2020 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Not The Plan B 92
Posted on
November 27, 2020 by
Kenny MacAskill
When’s a Plan B not a Plan B? Well, when it’s something that could and should have been done already, and won’t be anywhere near adequate even if delivered.
Yet that seems to be what some colleagues are now arguing for. It’s welcome that their thoughts are at last turning to the possibility of the Tories saying No to the Scottish people’s democratic vote. But it’s happening dangerously slowly as the dismantling of devolution and reintegration into the UK gathers pace. Which’s why the Yes Movement needs to act now, not after a Holyrood election.
The morning papers 62
Posted on
November 27, 2020 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
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.)
Schrodinger’s Cybernat 200
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November 26, 2020 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
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.
It got a lot funnier today, though.
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
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.
Taking the wheel 176
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November 18, 2020 by
Julie McAnulty
Some years ago, a friend of mine was on a car journey along the motorway, with their brother driving. The night before there had been a storm and high winds. The bad weather had continued into the morning before easing, but the wind was still strong.
They were chatting in the car and as they continued to chat, my friend noticed that further along, a motorway stanchion that holds the lights had fallen across their path. It was blocking two of the three lanes, including the one that they were on. Despite that, they continued to chat as if it wasn’t there.
The obstacle drew nearer and nearer. Finally my friend said to his brother, “Aren’t you going to drive round that light?” His brother swerved and made it into the unblocked lane with feet to spare.
I asked my friend why they hadn’t swerved sooner. “Neither of us could believe it was there”, he said.
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.
