The mutability of history 135
Posted on
April 15, 2024 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Truth matters in public life.
So we’ve sent the letter below to the Scottish Parliament this morning.
Archive for the ‘history’
Well, that’s showbiz 121
Posted on
March 22, 2024 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Fashion is fleeting.
2020 seems a very long time ago, doesn’t it?
At the Seven-Eleven 933
Posted on
November 07, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Wings Over Scotland is 12 years old today. And since absolutely nothing is happening in the world of Scottish independence – and hasn’t for, frankly, years – we thought we’d take you on a trip back to the day we were born, since when things DID change.
Remember when we had a leader who could get the UK government to do stuff it didn’t want to do, readers? AND actually increase support for independence? Good times.
Ashes, Two Ashes 183
Posted on
October 31, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Maybe he thinks Ash Denham and Ash Regan are two different people.
Still, consistency, honesty, decency and integrity: no great loss.
The National Embarrassment 156
Posted on
October 16, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We thought this was overdue an update. It’s got about 16 new front pages on it, one whole new row and a handful of newly-rediscovered replacements. It really is worth taking a few minutes to peruse it properly (click on the pic to enlarge it) to get the full effect of eight wasted years of deja vu disappointment.
It’s not even The National’s fault. They’re a business, they’re simply trying to sell a few papers to a diminishing audience of endlessly gullible eejits. The real fault lies with the halfwitted SNP members who just keep on doggedly failing to learn a single lesson, and repeatedly vote to carry on doing what they know doesn’t work and never will.
Ach weel, as they used to say.
Glory days 242
Posted on
October 10, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The SNP put out this party political broadcast (PPB) last night.
And alert readers might already have noticed something odd.
Going on a journey 116
Posted on
October 04, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
From the archives #16 132
Posted on
October 02, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Someone tweeted this today:
We were curious to find out what we’d said, but it seems to have been expunged from The National’s website. We eventually managed to track the email down in our vaults, though, so just as a bit of a change, here it is, as a reminder of a different time.
Nine More Years A Slave 201
Posted on
September 18, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
To be honest it barely seems worth marking the ninth anniversary of the indyref. The day our nation – albeit narrowly – bottled out of becoming a real one again is nothing to be celebrated. The supposed party of independence has run away from the fight, concerned only with feathering its own nest, and its era of power looks to be drawing to a bitter and deserved close.
But there remains one grave and glaring grievance.
And no matter what anyone says, it’ll dog democracy and condemn Scottish politics to eternal stagnation until it’s addressed.
Full ahead backwards 200
Posted on
May 19, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Just slightly under four weeks ago, this site told you “It seems very much as though the strategy has reverted to ‘Beg the UK government for a Section 30, and when they refuse, wait a while then beg them again'”.
Once again, we’re dismayed to report that we called it right. Because last night SNP MSP Mairi McAllan, officially representing the party on Question Time, told a weary audience in Fort William that that was precisely the case.
And readers, if ever a policy has been tested in battle and found wanting, it’s that one.
Sing us a new one 297
Posted on
May 07, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Lipstick On Your Collar 338
Posted on
April 05, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Until a few weeks ago Calum Steele was the chief of the Scottish Police Federation, so as due-credits go we particularly appreciate this one.
So let’s remind ourselves of a few things.
