You’d have to be living in a pretty strict prison not to have heard the big story from today’s Olympics in Paris, in which male Algerian cheat Imane Khelefi was put in a boxing ring with young Italian woman Angela Carini and allowed to hit her in the head for 46 seconds until she retired, in tears and in fear for her safety, saying “I had to preserve my life”.
Sound like your kind of fun, men? It’s surprisingly easy!
The average rape sentence in Scotland is seven years, so to get six years plus three years’ supervision for the technically lesser crime of sexual assaults means they must have been pretty grim ones.
So we know that Cameron Downing is a very bad man. Which does rather invite the question of why he was so popular in the SNP.
Last week’s controversy around the Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre put the spotlight on the need for single-sex services to protect vulnerable women, but it’s very far from the only example of how Scottish women are being let down in this regard by both the Scottish Government and civic organisations.
The homelessness system in Scotland has collapsed. Emergency accommodation is dangerous, sub-standard, and overcrowded. There has been an epidemic of deaths in hotels and B&Bs in recent years.
As a writer, feminist and literary events organiser in Scotland, I’m regularly sent links to information someone thinks might be of interest to me. This week it was a document commissioned by one of Scotland’s leading and most powerful publicly-funded literary organisations, Literature Alliance Scotland (LAS).
Nobody, of course, objects to transgender writers being included or supported, but the content of the guidance raises several extremely serious and concerning issues.
Mridul Wadhwa, a man with whom Wings readers have been familiar for some years, was found by the tribunal judge to have been “the invisible hand behind everything that had taken place” as Roz Adams, a conscientious, caring and highly professional woman with a long history in the sector, was systematically and methodically hounded out of her job for holding, privately and sensitively, the belief that biological sex is real.
Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh on But No Cigar: “Stu writes: “(We’ll also give our readers a couple of minutes here to stop laughing at the idea that there’s…” Apr 27, 21:22
robertkknight on But No Cigar: “Gird your loins for the lowest turnout in the history of Holyrood elections landing sometime next year. Which, sadly, is…” Apr 27, 20:53
Former President Xiden on But No Cigar: “The First Cuck is projecting his own bigotry and intolerance . Bunch of extremist clowns.” Apr 27, 20:44
Andy Ellis on Unhinged Malady: “@Hatey 5.48pm I doubt the figure support your view. Last time I looked the % of Scots who favoured EU…” Apr 27, 20:35
Insider on But No Cigar: “gm… They sound like the same old fantasist nutters to me, gm” Apr 27, 20:10
100%Yes on But No Cigar: “If Farage promised to close Holyrood and send all the Unionist out on there ears, no matter how untasteful that…” Apr 27, 19:46
Nae Need! on But No Cigar: “50+ seats? Say it aint so, Joe, please say it aint so. What a bleak & hopeless prospect. A solipsistic…” Apr 27, 19:05
Yoon Scum on But No Cigar: “Mainly as he was a racist moron” Apr 27, 18:47
Yoon Scum on Unhinged Malady: “The scottish nationalists who bang one about we’re an oppressed colony are referred to as the Moon howlers The Moon…” Apr 27, 18:36
Young Lochinvar on But No Cigar: “Try the de-caff..” Apr 27, 18:34
Hatey McHateface on But No Cigar: “Typical. Double Glazing has probably done more to improve Scottish quality of life than all the attendees put together, but…” Apr 27, 18:09
Val Wells on But No Cigar: “I’m sure he has a higher seat than the riffraff, and it’s not his brass neck that’s extending.” Apr 27, 18:08
TURABDIN on But No Cigar: “SUMMITS, where hot air condenses. SUMMITS, where the «underendowed» seek the solace of their own kind.” Apr 27, 18:05
Hatey McHateface on But No Cigar: “Oooo YS. You’ve twigged there are other options, not just the binary choice between the saintly NHS and the Yankee…” Apr 27, 18:00
Hatey McHateface on Unhinged Malady: ““Despite Brexit” I’m generally in agreement with your post, Andy. But Brexit isn’t something that increases Indy support. Quite the…” Apr 27, 17:48
Den on But No Cigar: “Scots will never vote for a Muslim first minister , not a chance.” Apr 27, 17:44
Yoon Scum on But No Cigar: “NEWSFLASH the indy movement is a minority Lets change the last line to “nothing to inspire Scotland” And we can…” Apr 27, 17:36
geoff on But No Cigar: “Interesting how many charities receiving government funding were at this obvious political rally. Shame on them.” Apr 27, 17:35
Yoon Scum on But No Cigar: “You have a HUGE problem You think that if you get indyref2 Then it will be 95% YES and then…” Apr 27, 17:33
Yoon Scum on But No Cigar: “but reform want to shut down the NHS !!!!!!!!! I remember when I was at school the English teacher told…” Apr 27, 17:28
Yoon Scum on But No Cigar: “I know that the truly brainwashed think that all NO voters like myself get down and weep with joy at…” Apr 27, 17:23
gm on But No Cigar: “They sound like the only option available to me Sarah” Apr 27, 17:23
agent x on But No Cigar: “Louise Macdonald was appointed Director-General Communities in March 2023. Responsibilities The Director General for Communities is responsible for: social security…” Apr 27, 17:17
Yoon Scum on Unhinged Malady: “Dimming the sun I’m scottish What is this sun thing they talk about Is it the newspaper? As that and…” Apr 27, 17:17
Yoon Scum on But No Cigar: “I do wonder what the SNP consider the “far right” I’d happily bet that a large percentage of their own…” Apr 27, 17:15
Hatey McHateface on But No Cigar: “Wow. Check out all those ethnic minority names! Anybody care to do the math and tell us if that’s proportionate…” Apr 27, 17:05
Andy Ellis on Unhinged Malady: “I’m afraid you’ve got it wrong. There’s vanishingly little evidence that many, still less most, Scots buy the “Scotland as…” Apr 27, 17:05
Dave Hansell on But No Cigar: “And yet, at 39 appearances….. https://www.strudel.org.uk/panelshows/people/oyesh1hw.html ….. Nigel Farage is the joint sixth-most platformed panellist on BBC Question Time.” Apr 27, 16:53
Dek on But No Cigar: “Swinney still thinks he can buy time for more dissembling by saying ” oh look there’s a squirrel “. The…” Apr 27, 16:47
Morgwn C Davies on But No Cigar: “What on earth were Scottish Men’s Shed Association doing their? Surely they are non-political? And what about all the Bishops…” Apr 27, 15:48
