“Why can’t you just be kind?” is the signature cry of the transcult. Anyone professing a belief in the material reality of biology in 2021 is viciously attacked as a cruel and heartless bigot for refusing to affirm and validate this sort of madness:
Patrick Harvie on a radio phone-in today, refusing to say if he knows what a woman is and refusing to guarantee them safety from men in women’s single-sex spaces.
Just over a hundred years ago, the rights of women in the UK were still entirely decided by men. Women didn’t have the vote (a small minority would be given it in 1918, but most would have another decade to wait), there were no women in Parliament, and women basically had no say in anything that happened.
Record scratch and jump-cut to the present day.
That’s Kirsty Blackman, an SNP MP elected in 2015 who wouldn’t even have been allowed to stand for election a hundred years earlier, and who seems determined to take women’s rights back to that century.
The First Minister released a short film this week.
While it has the character of a hostage video, with terrorists just off-camera pointing a gun at the unfortunate victim and forcing them to read out a pre-prepared text, sadly we doubt that was the case. We think this is really what she believes and intends.
We’ve been racking our brains for a few hours now, but we still haven’t been able to think of a single UK citizen of the last 100 years – indeed, probably the last 300 – who has terrified the British establishment more than Alexander Elliot Anderson Salmond.
By any conceivable measure Salmond is the most successful Scottish politician of all time. He’s the only one to date to have won a (supposedly impossible) majority in the Scottish Parliament, the only one to have secured an independence referendum, and the man who took Scotland to the brink of regaining its democracy, where – despite the best efforts of his successor – it still just about remains.
He survived a uniformly hostile media for 20 years as SNP leader, then also survived a corrupt and criminal conspiracy within his own former party to have him imprisoned, walking out of court a free and innocent man despite a two-year smear campaign in the press and a police and government operation of unprecedented scale trying to convict him.
(A point that hasn’t been made enough in coverage of the entire fiasco is the amount of police resources which were devoted to the case. Ask the average woman who’s alleged a sexual assault below the level of rape – or indeed an actual rape – if SHE got a team of two dozen dedicated police officers interviewing over 400 people at a cost of millions of pounds to try to firm up HER claim.)
So you’d think that when he formed a brand-new political party, which got numerous elected representatives from the SNP to defect to it, and contested a notionally-crucial Scottish general election, it would sound like a work of absurdist dystopian fiction if one were to suggest the media would exclude it from even participating in televised election debates in a manner more befitting North Korea than a Western democracy.
So-called “puberty blockers” – the class of drugs that were used to “chemically castrate” computing pioneer Alan Turing for being homosexual (a crime in the UK in the 1950s), which is believed to have led to his suicide by cyanide poisoning at the age of 41 are extremely dangerous.
Scotland’s only gender clinic, the Sandyford, had to apologise just a few months ago for having concealed the very serious hazards posed by the drugs. But it has no plans to stop prescribing them to under-16s.
And the Scottish Government refuses to intervene in the matter.
Dr Malcolm Kerr joined the SNP in 1967, has contested local council and Scottish Parliament elections and is currently an activist in Cunninghame North constituency.
I’ve been a member of the SNP for long enough to recall the days when the party was capable of generating killer slogans. “It’s Scotland’s Oil”. “Independence – Nothing Less”. Those were the days!
Nothing describes the SNP’s descent towards being the new New Labour better than its choice of slogans in recent years. “Stronger for Scotland” serves only to flag up just how powerless the party’s large contingent at Westminster is. “Progress” is entirely meaningless.
And fellow activists and members may recall just how depressing it was to attend the most recent in-person spring Conference, when the leadership felt that the slogan “Hope” was going to be inspiring. When you’ve been in power for 14 years you’re supposed to DO things, not just hope for them.
We’re getting to the point where we should soon be Blairite enough to invade Iraq. Fortunately, we lack the means.
Yesterday the SNP released their 2021 election manifesto, and on the divisive subject of gender reform it was as bad as we feared. Yes, there is obfuscation to mask intent, but the intent is crystal clear all the same. Especially if we judge the SNP by their record and all the things they have failed – and continued to fail – to address.
The manifesto commits to reforming the GRA while ensuring that it will not affect the rights or protections women enjoy under the Equality Act.
Even just the tweet above by the author of the Times piece fails all kinds of basic journalistic standards of impartiality, but the article itself is vastly worse.
Not for the first time, a certain section of society in Scotland and elsewhere is today engaged in the furious insistence that words don’t mean what they actually mean.
The words above are not ambiguous. They call for the “elimination” of “all laws limiting [the] legal capacity of adolescents […] to consent to sex”. The only laws which limit the legal capacity of adolescents – people aged from 10 to 19, according to both the World Health Organisation and the United Nations – to consent to sex are age of consent laws. The clue is somewhat in the name.
If organisations don’t want those laws abolished so that 10-year-olds can have sex, then they shouldn’t sign their names to statements saying that they do.
J Robertson on Nicola’s Summer Reading List: “How on earth does she think this constant media engagement after the only statement ( of 3 was it ?)…” May 31, 13:39
Mark Beggan on Nicola’s Summer Reading List: “Vivactive Inconsistency Pants! That will ensure a good nights sleep for the silent Churners.” May 31, 13:36
Mark Beggan on Nicola’s Summer Reading List: ““As long as it is harming no-one, it’s between consenting adults and it is not forced upon everyone else they…” May 31, 13:21
robertkknight on Nicola’s Summer Reading List: “No need to wait, just cast your mind back by three weeks. Compare and contrast… 2021 Election Results SNP Constituency…” May 31, 13:20
Saffron Robe on Nicola’s Summer Reading List: “Do not say, “I did not do it,” when you know you have done wrong, for “ill-gotten gains have no…” May 31, 13:13
Confused on Nicola’s Summer Reading List: “I sometimes see Brookmyre walking about; he is a local. “your books are shite” I banter in passing, listing a…” May 31, 12:56
Captain Caveman on Nicola’s Summer Reading List: ““Reading shite crime novels gives middle class pricks a vicarious dark streets of Scotland fix, whilst making them feel as…” May 31, 12:51
TURABDIN on Nicola’s Summer Reading List: “SCOTS BORN could be around 100k mark as census returns may be conservative owing to family data withheld. Second &…” May 31, 12:50
Hatey McHateface on Nicola’s Summer Reading List: ““I suspect those ‘customers’ who once supported the SNP in their many thousands have just silently abandoned it” I guess…” May 31, 12:44
Rob on Nicola’s Summer Reading List: “I do not have a problem with gays, lesbians, bisexuals, transexuals or “queers” per se. As long as it is…” May 31, 12:24
findlay on Nicola’s Summer Reading List: “Could that be described as assisted suicide? However, as far as I know, it’s still a crime to lend assistance…” May 31, 12:20
TURABDIN on Nicola’s Summer Reading List: “the ULTIMATE QUEER list, a few you might actually have heard of, https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/independent-pride-list-2026-lgbt-changemakers-alan-carr-b2981863.html Nae Nicola! Maybe next year hen, Next…” May 31, 12:18
Northcode on Nicola’s Summer Reading List: “Silent churn is a business term mostly used by sales and marketing professionals. The silent churn of unhappy customers is…” May 31, 12:15
Mark Beggan on Nicola’s Summer Reading List: “Story circulating that Alex Salmond paid £500 pounds out of his own pocket to cover a theft by Murrell many…” May 31, 12:12
Mark Beggan on Nicola’s Summer Reading List: “It will be easier to get rid of queers from positions in civic society than it was to force them…” May 31, 11:55
David Lindsay on Nicola’s Summer Reading List: “The Crown Prosecution Service will not be seeking the extradition of Kenneth Law, despite his 79 known victims in the…” May 31, 11:52
robertkknight on Nicola’s Summer Reading List: “A glance to the right of this webpage displays just some of the ‘Jam Tomorrow’ front pages of that rag…” May 31, 11:51
Rob on Nicola’s Summer Reading List: “It seems that the SNP have forgotten the original brief for the party, upon independence the party was supposed to…” May 31, 11:51
Rob on Nicola’s Summer Reading List: “Has she ever heard the saying, “when you are in a hole stop digging?” The whole story from her seems…” May 31, 11:43
Hatey McHateface on Nicola’s Summer Reading List: “Smart, successful politicians should organise their own assassinations.” May 31, 11:42
Hatey McHateface on Nicola’s Summer Reading List: ““I feel I’m being tried for a crime I didn’t commit” Un be fucking lievable. When is somebody gonna confront…” May 31, 11:39
findlay on Nicola’s Summer Reading List: “Sometimes life is just one steep learning curve, and I imagine she’s learning, just a little bit, about how she…” May 31, 11:36
Hatey McHateface on Nicola’s Summer Reading List: “There’s some 90,000 Scots already living in London, CC, making it the fifth most populous Scottish city in the UK,…” May 31, 11:27
Hatey McHateface on Nicola’s Summer Reading List: “I guess she’s not yet sweating, then. And these days, it’s Mr Mountbatten-Windsor. Leave your glengarry undoffed, willie!” May 31, 11:10
Owen Mullions on Nicola’s Summer Reading List: ““I feel I’m being tried for a crime I didn’t commit” wails a tearful Sturgeon. She doesn’t do irony doesn’t…” May 31, 11:08
Terry on Nicola’s Summer Reading List: “Ha ha. Well done You deserve a laugh and praise after your tireless pursuit of the truth. The whole of…” May 31, 11:04
Cynicus on Nicola’s Summer Reading List: ““ Sturgeon’s interview with Laura Kuenssberg will come to be seen alongside Prince Andrew’s interview with Emily Maitlis.” ========= Are…” May 31, 10:59
Captain Caveman on Nicola’s Summer Reading List: “Well, it would’ve been quite amusing if she had in fact chosen that most beautiful English city – the Roman…” May 31, 10:48
TURABDIN on Nicola’s Summer Reading List: “Independence movements eventually take the violent route. The mainstream Scots independentists appear rather squeamish/nervous in that regard. Fanon ultimately reached…” May 31, 10:47