Now featuring Scotland 142
Posted on
October 31, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Or so they say, at any rate. Near the end, we think.
Archive for the ‘culture’
The Stereotypes 151
Posted on
July 01, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Much of central Cowdenbeath was closed down for several hours by the police yesterday to facilitate an Orange Order parade attended by DUP leader Arlene Foster. (Curiously, Ruth Davidson, who’d been vocal in her complaints about traffic disruption in Glasgow due to the recent Yes march, had no objections this time.)
Foster made an audaciously ironic plea for a nation “free from intolerance and hatred“, right before the next speaker stepped up to denounce large sections of the local population as “enemies of Christ”.
The rest of the parade took its usual form.
The worst country in the world 187
Posted on
June 30, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
In our latest Panelbase poll, we asked the same independence question we asked in the last one, and got much the same answer. (Technically the indy vote went up by about a sixth of one percent, but that’s statistically meaningless.)
That’s a bit disappointing after the events of recent weeks, but also not very surprising – after all, the way the question is framed pretty much guarantees at least 38% of the population will choose the second option straight off the bat.
Much more interesting is the question we asked next.
Being our own media, part 26 12
Posted on
June 25, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Michael Gray and Robert Somynne’s Scotia Live, episode 1:
A funny kind of Unionism 274
Posted on
June 20, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
In all the excitement of the torching of the devolution settlement, we forgot to mention a curious piece of data from our recent poll of English voters.
Of all the people south of the border who would gladly throw Scotland and Northern Ireland under the bus (and more to the point, out of the UK) in order to ensure England left the EU, by far the most willing were the voters of the only UK party which expressly identifies itself as standing FOR the Union – the Conservative And Unionist Party.
Anatomy of an embarrassment 186
Posted on
May 31, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
And no, we don’t even mean the FOUR spelling mistakes in this 42-word tweet.
We mean the bit that we’ve highlighted above in blue. Because what Scottish Labour’s lowest-watt bulb was gloating about earlier today was that Lord Bracadale concluded there’d been no gap created in the law by the Kelly-driven abolition of the OBFA.
And that’s… well, that’s not quite what Lord Bracadale said.
Being silenced is golden 80
Posted on
May 31, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The findings of Lord Bracadale’s report into hate-crime law in Scotland were published today (tl;dr version: OBFA’s coming back), and we couldn’t help observing them in the context of an interesting Guardian article on the alt/far right yesterday.
Because we’ve discovered something slightly odd about the subject.
The Too Wee Club Redux 157
Posted on
May 30, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Returning to a theme.
(Original series here.)
The incredible sulks 157
Posted on
May 29, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
This is from one of the first ever articles we wrote on Wings, just a couple of weeks after the site’s launch way back in November 2011:
Depressingly, some people still don’t get it.
Guess who’s coming to dinner? 250
Posted on
May 22, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Last week we revealed that English voters would happily see Scotland and Northern Ireland leave the UK if it was the price of securing Brexit. But one of the odder things was that those figures included a sizeable number of Remain voters, who don’t want Brexit to happen at all.
We were a little perplexed, so we did a follow-up question asking those people if they’d elaborate a bit and got some interesting replies. One person, for example, answered “The Scottish people are very arrogant and although they want to be separate from the rest of the UK they are happy to take money from England”. Charming.
But there was also another stream of opinion on the subject, and it was revealed in the responses to another question in the original poll.
Where the friendship is 310
Posted on
May 08, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Alert and intrepid reader Dougie Grant gets among Her Majesty’s most loyal subjects.
(Alternative title: “A Journey Towards Unity”.)
