Readers may have been baffled by a news story yesterday, in which an event where two men insulted each other in the street (“Deviant!”, “Bigot!”) has led to one of them, but not the other, being arrested and charged with an unspecified crime by police.
In particular, many people on social media have contrasted the situation with one from a month ago, when a large male transactivist violently assaulted a feminist woman at a “Women Won’t Wheesht” meeting in Aberdeen but merely received a recorded warning rather than being arrested and charged.
So we’re very grateful to Roddy Dunlop KC, the Dean of the Faculty of Advocates (the “trade” body of Scotland’s senior barristers), for posting an extremely informative, and disturbing, summary of the relevant laws on Twitter this morning.
It is our solemn duty to inform readers that deranged, shovel-handed Scottish Greens member and known associate of rapists and paedophiles Scott “Heather” Herbert has taken the hump at a Wings article from yesterday in which he was satirically featured.
He filed a malicious false copyright claim with YouTube which resulted in a silent video clip from the article showcasing his comically gigantic man-hands being scheduled for deletion, despite Herbert owning no copyright in the video (it’s the property of TalkTV, who have raised no objections to it) and having no legal standing to file any complaint.
But YouTube’s abysmal automated structures operate on the basis that all complaints are intrinsically valid, and allow absolutely no way for Wings to appeal this decision.
He popped up on Talk TV last night, explaining how a middle-aged man twerking at a number of very young children – some of whom seemed visibly distressed – during a recent Pride march was fine because maybe the children had asked him to (which they manifestly hadn’t), and anyway it was their parents’ fault that it happened.
And, y’know, readers can make their own judgements about that.
Hannah Graf MBE (below, right, receiving the decoration from Prince William in 2019 for his “work updating LGBTQ policy in the British Army”) is a very strange fella.
Cynicus on Scotland In Numbers: ““….women who support the SNP and are members of the SNP not up in arms about the SNP attitude toward…” Feb 18, 15:00
sarah on The Future Is Yesterday: “I forgot Alba – if they joined the Alliance umbrella, that would be even better.” Feb 18, 14:59
Aidan on The Longest Road: “Scotland is one of the wealthiest countries in the world, as I pointed out GDP per capita in Edinburgh is…” Feb 18, 14:54
sarah on The Future Is Yesterday: “Horrifying, appalling, sickening, terrifying, outrageous. What a dreadful level the SNP has fallen to. Alliance to Liberate Scotland is the…” Feb 18, 14:46
Terry on The Future Is Yesterday: “You’ve been right for years. Agreed. They need to go. But how? Apart from us not voting for them. I’m…” Feb 18, 14:44
David on The Future Is Yesterday: “The thought of Campbell getting in makes me boke.” Feb 18, 14:30
Lorna Campbell on Scotland In Numbers: “It is Stalinism/totalitarianism, Fearghas, and deliberately so pour encourager les autres. I think we really need to ask what is…” Feb 18, 13:48
Hatey McHateface on Scotland In Numbers: “I find the fact that Neil Armstrong could claim descent from Scottish Border Reiver ancestors on his father’s side is…” Feb 18, 13:43
Cynicus on Scotland In Numbers: “Cameron Lochiel says: 18 February, 2026 at 12:04 am “It’s about time we gave up and let the bees take…” Feb 18, 13:37
Hatey McHateface on Scotland In Numbers: “Spain has just granted citizenship to around one million illegals. Thus effectively unleashing them on all the other EU member…” Feb 18, 13:29
Hatey McHateface on Scotland In Numbers: ““58 per cent reported “self-censorship and chilling effects”, followed by “bullying, harassment and ostracism” at 42 per cent, and “barriers…” Feb 18, 13:22
Hatey McHateface on Scotland In Numbers: ““no real strategy to replace the migrant workforce” I suggest you type “how many UK citizens rely entirely on benefits”…” Feb 18, 13:17
Hatey McHateface on Scotland In Numbers: “Quite an amusing post, Confused. As always, a quibble: “the big story right now” Naw. The voracious news cycle has…” Feb 18, 13:03
Hatey McHateface on The Longest Road: “Ah, c’moan noo, x. Lots o’ loons wear curlers these days. They’re nae jist fer quines.” Feb 18, 12:48
Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh on Scotland In Numbers: “ACADEMIC: ‘ERASING BIOLOGICAL SEX FROM RESEARCH UNDERMINES ACADEMIA’ A prominent academic has urged his colleagues to stand against the “quiet…” Feb 18, 12:42
Confused on Scotland In Numbers: “we are doing so badly, there’s a waiting list for the r4ping these days https://archive.ph/4n6H5 – maybe they could open…” Feb 18, 12:28
Lorna Campbell on Scotland In Numbers: “Partly, it’s spreading monies too thinly and partly punishment. I had a fair inkling that, if the UKSC Ruling was…” Feb 18, 12:28
Lorna Campbell on Scotland In Numbers: “Absolutely, H. McH. That ship has sailed. It would be economic and social and political madness to resurrect the EU…” Feb 18, 12:08
Andy Wiltshire on Scotland In Numbers: “‘Is there anything practical to show for it…?’ Yes. The right people still get invited to the right dinner parties.” Feb 18, 11:58
Southernbystander on Scotland In Numbers: “Interesting, though you have to subscribe to read the bulk of it. I am in broad agreement with him. I…” Feb 18, 11:42
Stuart MacKay on Scotland In Numbers: “Here’s a stick that could be used to beat every politician into oblivion, whether it’s the SNP (we hate women),…” Feb 18, 11:36
sam on Scotland In Numbers: “Well done J K Rowling. Beira’s Place still functions in Edinburgh. It is funded by Ms Rowling.As well as Ms…” Feb 18, 10:59
agentx on The Longest Road: “Wow – GB womens curlers just had a great win!” Feb 18, 10:49
Frank Gillougley on Scotland In Numbers: “That is a huge lawyers ‘welfare’ bill. One million plus on that one issue alone. Is there anything practical to…” Feb 18, 10:48
sam on Scotland In Numbers: “Alf, It is worth noting the role of King James I and VI. He used Scots to try to seize…” Feb 18, 10:46
diabloandco on Scotland In Numbers: “Indeed , a massive loss.” Feb 18, 10:16
James Che on Scotland In Numbers: “100%Yes, If they had gone down the route in the beginning of Recognising Scotland was dissolved from the treaty of…” Feb 18, 10:06
Doug McGregor on Scotland In Numbers: “Again , the answer is staring the SNP in the face, EFTA , but again their intransigence kicks in and…” Feb 18, 10:00
