A comment on recent events 59
Posted on
January 13, 2019 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Archive for the ‘culture’
Not out 429
Posted on
December 12, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
This is the 5,000th post since Wings Over Scotland began in November 2011, which is just shy of two a day, every single day, since then. We wanted such a landmark post to be something serious and significant, but in light of the utter brain-melting futility of trying to write anything sensible about politics in the UK today that won’t be overtaken by ridiculous events within seven minutes, screw it, we’re going to this instead.
So we’ll see you all later this evening for the result of Theresa May’s confidence vote. What’s the worst that could happen?
No, really, we’re asking.
A quick morality check 136
Posted on
November 06, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
There was a certain uncomfortable 2018 inevitability this morning over the fact that where people were offended, arrests would follow.
And the burning of a cardboard model of the Grenfell Tower last night was certainly right up near the top in the pantheon of cretinously offensive things. Many victims of the appalling tragedy, which killed 72 people and injured many more, still haven’t been properly rehomed almost a year and a half later.
But if it’s a CRIME, we have some questions.
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.
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.)
