The way time flies 182
Posted on
December 04, 2022 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Can this really be six and a half years ago?
We suddenly feel very old.
Archive for the ‘history’
Fear Of Failing 255
Posted on
December 02, 2022 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Word reaches us, readers, that Nicola Sturgeon was “furious” when she joined the most recent meeting of the SNP’s Westminster group by Skype. Her rage was driven by the suggestion that the party should trigger a Holyrood election to act as a de facto independence referendum, a policy we’re reliably told is supported by a number of MPs who are too scared of being browbeaten by Sturgeon in front of their colleagues to actually speak out in favour of it.
(We won’t mention their names at this point.)
Our source mentioned to us that they seemed to remember an interview in which the First Minister had revealed a possible reason for her extreme antipathy to the idea – one for the BBC’s extensive and rather good three-part documentary “Yes/No – Inside The Indyref”, which was broadcast in August 2019 and never seen again.
It’s not available on iPlayer or YouTube, but fortunately we happened to still have the show recorded on our Sky+ box, so we went to check, and lo and behold our source’s recollection was correct. Apologies for the slightly wonky quality of this video, as we had to record it off the TV screen.
We’ve transcribed it below.
Triumph Of The Won’t 49
Posted on
December 02, 2022 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
You can’t move on social media today without tripping over effusive tweets from SNP MPs and MSPs singing the praises of departed Westminster leader Ian Blackford and admiring all his achievements in the position over the last five years, although weirdly nobody has actually listed any of them.
Wings Over Scotland would like to pay its own tribute by remembering this line in the sand drawn by Blackford in August 2019 and on many other occasions.
Thank goodness he didn’t allow that to happen, eh readers?
Let’s go round again 152
Posted on
November 30, 2022 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Left: February 2020. Right: November 2022.
Or possibly the other way round, we’re not sure. All we know is that we’re always surging upwards and forwards but somehow never actually getting anywhere.
The end of the process 201
Posted on
November 29, 2022 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Five and three quarters years ago.
If anyone knows when “this process” will have ended and we’ll get our choice – or indeed what she achieved for Scotland in the Brexit negotiations – do let us know.
The snake that ate its own tail 230
Posted on
November 27, 2022 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
It’s nice to see the British media (and perhaps, if we might be allowed to dream for a moment, the law) catching up with Michelle Mone.
It’s such a shame nobody did any proper investigative journalism into what a crooked, venal chancer she is before now – seven years ago or even four years ago, say – or the country might have been saved a few billion quid. Ah well, you live and learn, eh?
Warning Forever 217
Posted on
November 10, 2022 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Stop us if you think you’ve heard this one before, readers.
Because you won’t be wrong.
Nicola Sturgeon: In Her Own Words 138
Posted on
September 22, 2022 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Remembering Pete Wishart 157
Posted on
June 29, 2022 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The Magic Of Vision 160
Posted on
June 13, 2022 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
While this site remains mothballed, it’s nice to keep a steady trickle of traffic going just in case it ever needs to spring back to life, eg if someone actually interested in independence suddenly somehow becomes leader of the SNP again.
So we thought it might be fun to just briefly link to some old articles as and when they became topical once more, and as luck would have it tomorrow is such an occasion.
Because that’s when the SNP will launch the first of a series of new papers outlining the First Minister’s “vision” of independence by waffling on about how it would be a jolly good thing, in the unlikely event that she ever got off her extremely well-paid arse and achieved it.
Any second now 88
Posted on
June 08, 2022 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
This was overdue an update. Two extra rows now added.
(Click for full size image with legible dates. Landscape version here.)
A Game Of Two Halves 449
Posted on
May 03, 2022 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
15 years ago this week (today if you’re counting strictly by date, Thursday if you want to go with election days) the SNP came to power in Scotland for the first time ever. The media operating in Scotland is full of retrospectives and polls on the period, but as usual they’ve missed the real story, as a reader pointed out to us a few days ago.
So for old times’ sake, let’s do their job properly for them one more time.
