A Personal Best For Kezia 255
Posted on
November 25, 2024 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Archive for the ‘history’
Objection Sustained 41
Posted on
September 18, 2024 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
This must be some kind of mistake.
Because we’re sure you’ve spent the last decade telling us that just couldn’t happen.
After the swarm 72
Posted on
September 11, 2024 by
Alex Salmond
On 15 October 2012, I signed the Edinburgh Agreement with David Cameron to secure the independence referendum of September 2014.
On the same day Peter Kellner of the polling company YouGov wrote one of his condescending commentaries from London dissing any hope for the Yes campaign.
Kellner’s view was almost universal, and not just among the London pack of journos and politicians. Most, if not all, of the Scottish media agreed with him.
However, by September 2014 things looked very different.
Event on the horizon 100
Posted on
September 01, 2024 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Those of you on Twitter will probably be aware of this already, but for the rest:
It should be a bit of a lark, although the retrospective part will probably be rather more fun than the looking-forward part. I don’t get out much, so if you want to come along and throw some rotten fruit and/or say hi, tickets are here.
Ten Years Asleep 173
Posted on
August 11, 2024 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Exactly a decade ago today, on 11 August 2014, the Wee Blue Book was released.
This was where things stood at that moment in time.
One month after the WBB, that 20-point gap was down, like-for-like, to two points.
If you want to know the facts 197
Posted on
May 02, 2024 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Volkssturm John 414
Posted on
April 29, 2024 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
In the dying days of World War 2, as Berlin crumbled to rubble under Russian bombs and rockets, the Nazis played a desperate last card in the shape of the Volkssturm, an ad hoc fighting force primarily comprised of old men, invalided veterans and those not deemed fit for normal military service. (As most of those were already dead.)
They were rounded up and sent off to the front (usually only a few hundred yards away) in their civilian clothes, armed with whatever odds and sods of weaponry could be scrabbled together – most commonly the one-shot Panzerfaust anti-tank grenade, as seen in the pic above – and invariably slaughtered in the streets by the disbelieving battalions of the Red Army, because it didn’t matter to Hitler whether they lived or died.
And here we are again.
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.
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.
