Well well, look who suddenly believes in second referendums.
It’s fascinating to note how you can completely reverse Kezia Dugdale’s position on the subject simply by substituting the word “Scotland” for the words “the UK” in that second tweet, and imagine she was talking about the independence march in heavily-Remain-voting Edinburgh earlier this month instead of the (proportionately smaller) one in London yesterday.
Tory MP Kirstene “dumber than a box of” Hair is best known for being the member of the UK Parliament who didn’t vote in the Brexit referendum because it was too difficult.
The Scottish Daily Mail today has a big headline relaying the seemingly-unambiguous bad news that unemployment in Scotland has apparently risen by 11,000.
But cheer up, folks, because better times are ahead.
We’re pretty sure it was “Listen to you about being ‘better together’, so that they ended up with a Tory government they didn’t vote for but which was imposed on them by the people in a much larger country, and which has a long track record of imposing brutal, callous welfare policies on the poor for largely ideological reasons, and which has entirely predictably continued to do so”.
We’re blacklisted by the press regulator IPSO, but fortunately when we raise issues with especially blatant inaccuracies in UK newspapers alert readers sometimes take up the cudgel and file complaints with them because we can’t.
When indoor-hat-wearing uberYoon nutter George Galloway appeared in some of the madder corners of the gutter press this week after appearing on RT to extravagantly belittle last weekend’s indy marchers, we didn’t bother talking about it because who cares what that irrelevant old zoomer thinks, right?
But when an alert reader drew our attention to this spectacular clip of Galloway’s pre-indyref and post-indyref views on the EU we couldn’t let it go, because it so perfectly encapsulates not just what a huge buffoon George Galloway is, but the jaw-dropping, bare-faced, crass hypocrisy of so much Unionist argument.
We’re only sad he’s neither a politician nor in Scotland, or he’d be a shoo-in.
We knew this would be a fast-moving phenomenon when we created it, but we’re only just beginning to realise the magnitude of the rod we’ve made for our own backs. Because the supply of rock-headed clownshows sucking up taxpayers’ money on the opposition benches at Holyrood appear to be effectively infinite.
There’s only actually one “l” in “intolerable”, but that’s still the intellectual high point of the tweet. It really is hard to adequately convey what a brainless piece of idiocy this is without just swearing for a solid hour, but we’ll try.
A famous quote commonly attributed to Albert Einstein (and hotly disputed, as always, by point-missing Quote Nazis), runs that “the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results”.
It’s been bouncing around our heads for the last couple of days, because with the SNP annual conference in full swing in Glasgow, Scottish political pundits have taken it upon themselves to start issuing bizarre assertions/advice about the party’s strategy for securing a second independence referendum.
This version, from the Herald’s cut-price David Torrance knockoff Mark Smith today, is no more than we’d expect from that source:
But we were a lot more surprised to see the notion also being taken up by someone we’d previously credited with a lot more insight and intelligence.
Alert readers will be aware that while the absolutely mind-numbing empirical stupidity of Scotland’s latest batch of Unionist MPs and MSPs is a recurring theme on Wings, we’ve never attempted to place it on any sort of formal footing. And to be honest, that sort of laziness on our part is no longer sustainable.
James Cheyne on Shield Of The Phantom: “Lorna Campbell. Lorna Campbell / Aiden 29th Jan 8: 45 pm. ” History is not a record of What has…” Jan 30, 10:52
sam on Shield Of The Phantom: ““Alf Baird says: 29 January, 2026 at 9:31 pm “Over time their cultures merged.” Linguistic evidence rather sugggests divergence”. Robert…” Jan 30, 10:14
sam on Shield Of The Phantom: “Tribunal hearing in Edinburgh. Began on 28/1/2026. Still going. Tribunal Tweets has links to their coverage of the hearing from…” Jan 30, 10:07
Hatey McHateface on Shield Of The Phantom: “@sam You forgot to claim that support for Indy by True Scots can never be less than 100% By definition.” Jan 30, 09:37
Hatey McHateface on Shield Of The Phantom: “Sorry YL, I dinna understand your post. Stormy Daniel’s what? Haha, bet you could tell a tale or two about…” Jan 30, 09:29
Aidan on Shield Of The Phantom: “Of course YL, and as with any nascent technology you would expect unit costs to come down as it becomes…” Jan 30, 09:21
Hatey McHateface on Shield Of The Phantom: “You might want to consider that AI could already be sufficiently smart to be able to detect when it has…” Jan 30, 09:18
Hatey McHateface on Shield Of The Phantom: “Not by comparison with your lifetime’s achievements, no. You do well to disparage those so much less successful than yourself,…” Jan 30, 09:09
Hatey McHateface on Shield Of The Phantom: “Just off the top of my heid, I believe the peat in Scotland’s peat bogs has the capacity to generate…” Jan 30, 09:06
Young Lochinvar on Shield Of The Phantom: “H McH I doubt Stormy Daniel’s would agree (philandering), nor the worlds news editors who have to try and make…” Jan 30, 09:04
Hatey McHateface on Shield Of The Phantom: “Sure, we can run data centres on intermittent wind power. Once our entire economy is dependent on AI (because human…” Jan 30, 08:47
Young Lochinvar on Shield Of The Phantom: “I note with some degree of irony that many politicians while eulogising the passing of Jim Wallace claim he pretty…” Jan 30, 08:42
Young Lochinvar on Shield Of The Phantom: “Aidan Got to start somewhere.. Hey ho, once it’s up and running a pints bet on how the energy cables…” Jan 30, 08:10
Young Lochinvar on Shield Of The Phantom: “Good luck David Toshak. Yet another victim of the woo woo deviancy/ degeneracy agenda placed high up on the list…” Jan 30, 07:27
Aidan on Shield Of The Phantom: “Okay, but in his opinion on the subject Lord Hope of Craighead said explicitly that the treaty did extinguish upon…” Jan 30, 06:14
Young Lochinvar on Shield Of The Phantom: “AI; The nadir of the intelligent, talented, capable, skilled and thinking person IMO. Zero effort, zero time spent mastering a…” Jan 30, 01:30
willie on Shield Of The Phantom: “One thing to also consider is that with the rapid development of AI the industry needs two very key things…” Jan 30, 00:42
Alf Baird on Shield Of The Phantom: ““Over time their cultures merged.” Linguistic evidence rather suggests divergence. In most former Pictish areas from the lowlands to the…” Jan 29, 21:31
Saffron Robe on Shield Of The Phantom: “If a judgement is selective rather than objective, it ceases to be a judgement of law and becomes merely an…” Jan 29, 20:58
Lorna Campbell on Shield Of The Phantom: “Aidan: the Treaty could not have been spent on the accession of the two states into the one state, the…” Jan 29, 20:54
Cynicus on Shield Of The Phantom: “I have just encountered an “AI detector “ online: it is called justdone.com. I am afraid I cannot recommend it…” Jan 29, 20:32
Aidan on Shield Of The Phantom: “Do please tell us all about this sea power Northcode, is there any large-output tidal energy project anywhere in Scotland…” Jan 29, 19:46
Cynicus on Shield Of The Phantom: ““..the new evidence aqq A” ====== Sorry for this gibberish in my long post above. The phrase should read, “the…” Jan 29, 19:37
Northcode on Shield Of The Phantom: ““Scotland already possesses key competitive advantages in marine energy, including abundant natural resources and dedicated enterprise agencies. The country’s marine…” Jan 29, 18:50
sam on Shield Of The Phantom: “Gaels and Picts combined to face the threat of the Vikings. Over time their cultures merged.” Jan 29, 18:42
Cynicus on Shield Of The Phantom: “Lorna Campbell says: 29 January, 2026 at 2:12 pm “AI spews out according to that which you put in, Cynicus.…” Jan 29, 18:39
sam on Shield Of The Phantom: “It is not 25% of the Scottish population, It is a turnout of at least 50% of those registered to…” Jan 29, 18:36
Hatey McHateface on Shield Of The Phantom: “So you don’t even grant them the basic courtesy of calling our ancestors by their own names? Preferring to use…” Jan 29, 18:35
Northcode on Shield Of The Phantom: ““In summary, Scotland’s marine energy resources have the potential to significantly contribute to its energy output, aligning closely with the…” Jan 29, 18:34
Northcode on Shield Of The Phantom: ““Indeed so, these are immense energy surpluses that would be earning Scots around £100 billion a year…” Yes, Alf. The…” Jan 29, 18:27
