The Too Wee Club Redux 157
Posted on
May 30, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Returning to a theme.
(Original series here.)
Archive for the ‘culture’
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”.)
Soapbox: The War Of Words 443
Posted on
April 29, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
So everyone’s fighting about Gaelic again. Provoked by a minor story about a Gaelic dictionary MSM and alt-media pundits are flying at each other with daggers over a language spoken by almost nobody on Earth and on which the government spends a few measly and irrelevant pennies, trying to turn it into a proxy war over politics and the constitution and fascism and genocide and goodness knows what else.
We’ve covered the political nonsense around the issue numerous times on this site, and we’re not about to do so again here. This, as befits the Soapbox section, is a purely personal view, which will doubtless attract more furious shrieking from the sort of people who long ago lost the ability to listen to a counterpoint – or indeed tolerate the mere concept of one – let alone consider it or debate it without abuse.
But hey ho. After a while you just learn to tune that stuff out, so let’s go.
Pie in your face 218
Posted on
March 23, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
With regard to this, some important commentary:
(And some more.)
Nazi pugs? Fuck off! 201
Posted on
March 22, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The text in the image below might be the scariest words we’ve ever read.
If you’re not sure why, read a little closer.
The star prize 77
Posted on
March 14, 2018 by
The History Twins
A historic breakthrough 579
Posted on
March 12, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We could all do with some cheering up at the moment, so it’s with great pleasure that we can announce fantastic news for Scotland – the ancient plague of sectarianism has finally been defeated once and for all!
At least, we assume it MUST have been, because this week the Scottish Parliament is set to give its final assent – thanks to Labour, the Tories, the Liberal Democrats and the all-important Scottish Greens – to abolishing the Offensive Behaviour (Football) Act, against the wishes of the overwhelming majority of the Scottish population.
And as we can plainly observe from events yesterday, they would only be doing that if sectarianism was no longer a problem and it was safe to send out an encouraging message to the bigots that their worldview is now acceptable in Scotland again.
While we’re talking about bigots 147
Posted on
January 28, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Which we were yesterday, we couldn’t help noticing this:
And that reminded us that we still had some more poll results to reveal.
Heroes of the working class 164
Posted on
January 27, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We’re a bit annoyed about this, because we were going to give the Absolute Fanny Of The Week award to Anas Sarwar every week as a joke, but now it seems we can’t.
So that’s a professional journalist who’s studied the Offensive Behaviour (Football) Act, or OBFA, so intently and diligently that he keeps calling it “OBAF” instead. But that’s not the stupidest of it.
The House Scot and the Field Scot 267
Posted on
January 13, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
An alert reader this weekend linked us to a 1963 speech by the famed American civil rights and racial equality campaigner Malcolm X.
We’d never heard of it before, which is probably to our shame, but as we read it we were overcome by an inexplicable sense of incredible familiarity.
We present it to you below for your interest, without further comment or editing, but we’ve included a few pictures just to break up the block of text.
