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.
George Ferguson on Do You Believe In The Westwood?: “@Dan Great stuff Dan. I went on a cruise for a special anniversary and saw how the other half live.…” Apr 14, 20:55
Dan on Do You Believe In The Westwood?: “Don’t do it George, because that’s exactly what the “Greens” want you to do! There’s nothing says you’ve reduced your…” Apr 14, 20:24
Geri on Do You Believe In The Westwood?: ““A full investigation into the media allegations” Notice it’s not into the clowns who planned on recruiting this fantasist! I…” Apr 14, 19:59
Young Lochinvar on Do You Believe In The Westwood?: “C I think they did the bad Anglo desperate to bum the Scots hero already in Outlander.. Maybe they’ll do…” Apr 14, 19:47
Alf Baird on Do You Believe In The Westwood?: “The top of the iceberg, considering our colonial hierarchy. Might be an idea to check on the hundreds of other…” Apr 14, 19:15
George Ferguson on Do You Believe In The Westwood?: “I have just viewed the highlights of the Scottish Greens manifesto. I am awa to cut my wrists.” Apr 14, 18:08
Confused on Do You Believe In The Westwood?: “American reboots can be terrifyingly awful – the wicker man (nicolas cage), get carter (stallone) – but Cavill is a…” Apr 14, 17:39
Young Lochinvar on Do You Believe In The Westwood?: “I see they’re filming a Highlander reboot. A classic film, something of its time complete with Christopher Lambert and his…” Apr 14, 16:39
agentx on Do You Believe In The Westwood?: “A TOP LGBT activist has quit amid claims he used fake credentials to secure a senior position in a charity…” Apr 14, 16:33
JCD on Do You Believe In The Westwood?: “Check this out if you will. Kind of o/t but I thought it wouldn’t hurt to try to bring some…” Apr 14, 16:10
100%Yes on Do You Believe In The Westwood?: “I thought today I’ll have a look for a Scotland football top with a view to support Scotland and the…” Apr 14, 14:59
Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh on Do You Believe In The Westwood?: “Cynicus says: 14 April, 2026 at 11:43 am « Are there questions for Scottish politics here? » ————————— For sure.…” Apr 14, 13:35
Nicky T Naquetti on Do You Believe In The Westwood?: “LOOKS LIKE HE GOT THE BOOT,(assuming he even had an arse that could be kicked in the non-digital realm). Either…” Apr 14, 12:33
Alf Baird on Do You Believe In The Westwood?: ““What have the English stolen from you James?” Our land and national identity, replaced by the colonial myth, same as…” Apr 14, 12:27
Cynicus on Do You Believe In The Westwood?: “Thanks for the new link, Fearghas. Are there questionqs for Scottish politics here? Orban’s downfall was partly due to his…” Apr 14, 11:43
Geri on Do You Believe In The Westwood?: “LOL! Aye, they’re always the life & soul of the party. Not! I don’t think I’ve ever met a happy…” Apr 14, 10:54
C MacKay on Do You Believe In The Westwood?: “No-one with that name registered as a birth in Scotland’s people,there is a marriage in 2017” Apr 14, 09:10
C MacKay on Do You Believe In The Westwood?: “No-one with that name registered as a birth in Scotland’s people” Apr 14, 09:09
Mark Beggan on Do You Believe In The Westwood?: ““Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and unto God the things that are God’s”” Apr 14, 04:26
Young Lochinvar on Do You Believe In The Westwood?: “C’mon Beggars Seriously now: I think you need to calm down and have a Horlicks, you’re in way over your…” Apr 14, 01:42
Young Lochinvar on Do You Believe In The Westwood?: “Northcode @ 9.26 “Wish the Unionists would be wittier on here”.. It’s the dour pro English Presbyterian Calvinist thing; like…” Apr 14, 01:29
Young Lochinvar on Do You Believe In The Westwood?: “Geri Wackadoo Pastor? Whit? Pastor Faggat?! Gets about doesn’t he with his tedious sermonising eh?” Apr 14, 00:00
James on Do You Believe In The Westwood?: “Jay; aye, what a welcome relief it was for a short while to be spared the horse shit that McFuckFace…” Apr 13, 21:36
Northcode on Do You Believe In The Westwood?: ““…I didn’t realise “James” personally owned billions…” The power of Christ compels… I wish tae God the power o Christ…” Apr 13, 21:26
Aidan on Do You Believe In The Westwood?: “I didn’t realise “James” personally owned billions in North Sea oil?” Apr 13, 20:58
Northcode on Do You Believe In The Westwood?: ““As are the posts you make in Scots language!” I don’t normally bother responding to unionist idiocy (there’s so much…” Apr 13, 20:49
