The Scottish Government have just launched yet another nanny-state “healthy eating” intervention, and to be honest, readers, the cheap-shot open goals just queued up.
Our first instinct was to do a simple picture gallery of some of the insatiable pie-hounds squeezing their expenses-fed backsides onto the groaning, creaking benches and chairs of the Holyrood and Westminster parliaments, such as Kirsten “Elbows” Oswald (pictured above, slumped back under the sheer weight of her neck) – so known to other MPs because you get between her and a buffet at grave peril to your ribcage.
(And no, we’re not telling you which ones told us that.)
We’re reluctant to even mention the farcical, embarrassing goings-on in the House Of Commons last night, but the very short version is that the SNP somehow contrived to save Keir Starmer from an embarrassing mass rebellion of Labour MPs.
And in so far as anyone cared about them at all, the people of Gaza were the losers.
If there’s ever been a (branch office of a) political party that could somehow manage to blow it in Scotland against the burning trainwreck in a ditch full of sewage that is the SNP right now, it’s definitely Anas Sarwar’s hapless Scottish Labour.
Honestly, this stuff is comedy gold. But in a winner-takes-all dumb-off with Humza Yousaf’s SNP, it’s way too close to call.
As Twitter followers will have noticed, we’ve been busy this week with an extensive remodelling of Wings HQ, which involved the main computer being out of commission for several days while the office was basically torn down and rebuilt from scratch. (It seemed a good time to do it, given that there’s nothing remotely of interest happening in Scottish politics.)
Unfortunately the lack of activity on the site caused the comments on the last post to degenerate into the most wretched playground shrieking match, so let’s see if we can’t distract the children and talk about something else for a bit.
Particularly alert observers will have noted that Kezia Dugdale, the most spectacularly inept and unsuccessful Scottish political leader in history, this week demitted her role as Director of the John Smith Centre, which she was handed as an incentive to quit Scottish Labour after dragging it to 14% in the opinion polls.
We make no apology for returning once again to the depressing subject of the Scottish Government’s proposed new law to ban “conversion practices”, because it provides such an illuminating microcosm of how far a once competent and widely-respected administration has fallen since 2015.
Emma Roddick, who is piloting the bill towards the statute books in much the same way that Mohamed Atta piloted American Airlines Flight 11 towards the World Trade Centre, is a 26-year-old who by her own admission suffers from a serious and debilitating mental illness that any sane country would regard as an insurmountable bar to political office.
To the surprise of most of those watching, including ourselves, the Court Of Session delivered its judgement immediately at the end of today’s hearing, after only the most cursory of conflabs between the three august panel members.
The short version is that the Scottish Government lost, and must now comply with Wings reader Benjamin Harrop‘s FOI request regarding evidence that was supplied to independent adviser James Hamilton during his inquiry into the unlawful investigation of false allegations against Alex Salmond.
Hatey McHateface on The cost of failure: “Naw, James. It’s a little known fact that many people want to pay lots more tax. That’s why they move…” Dec 7, 10:23
Hatey McHateface on The cost of failure: “So long, Cynicus. Shame you never managed to deal with the substance of my assertion, that the son of some…” Dec 7, 10:11
Hatey McHateface on The cost of failure: “I’ve reached the conclusion The Jews, or one of them, are to blame for you too, Confused. That explains your…” Dec 7, 09:56
Cynicus on The cost of failure: “Hatey McHateface says: 6 December, 2025 at 7:26 pm “Nobody is going to claim a McTavish born in Islamabad to…” Dec 7, 00:28
Confused on The cost of failure: “Farage tries to get back in with the jews, issues a statement : – my own grandfather (sniff) … DIED…” Dec 6, 23:14
James Cheyne on The cost of failure: “Dan, Good to see others keeping an eye on whats going on behind scenes, Just wondered if the re-population of…” Dec 6, 22:10
James Cheyne on The cost of failure: “Scotland will not end England, Englands old treaties and plans for Scotland are now being used in the same manner…” Dec 6, 21:57
James Cheyne on The cost of failure: “Look north England for your enemy while we ” the other”infiltrate and invade your Country by sea and town, and…” Dec 6, 21:34
James Cheyne on The cost of failure: “Globalisation does not believe in nation states, nationality, own culture of indigenous people or own language, own soil land or…” Dec 6, 21:20
Hatey McHateface on The cost of failure: ““Dundonian born and bred” “Born in Dundee and brought up in Dundee” Not the same thing at all, Cynicus, as…” Dec 6, 19:26
agentx on The cost of failure: “Saturday, June 13: Scotland vs Haiti (Gillette Stadium, Foxborough). Kick off 2am UK time. Thursday, June 18: Scotland vs Morocco…” Dec 6, 18:13
agentx on The cost of failure: “Scotland have 2 games in Boston and 1 in Miami which is good.” Dec 6, 17:59
Iain More on The cost of failure: “Meanwhile that cheating diving anti Scottish Racist Neymar will possibly be back playing for Brazil and the Sassanach controlled BBC…” Dec 6, 17:17
Dan on The cost of failure: “Stuff going on elsewhere, as the tumbleweed rolls by here… https://www.isp.scot/november-29th-december-5th-2025/” Dec 6, 16:43
sarah on Ginger beer and fruit and nuts: “That’s good. Thanks, Silent Majority, for sharing with those of us who avoid the BBC!” Dec 6, 16:31
GM on The cost of failure: “The first game is v Haiti as well.” Dec 6, 14:05
SilentMajority on Ginger beer and fruit and nuts: “…interesting…that the BBC, recently, when reporting these types of stories, I’ve seen them use the describing prefix of ‘a biological…” Dec 6, 13:23
Cynicus on The cost of failure: “Hatey McHateface says: 6 December, 2025 at 9:58 am “I see you’re not averse to a spot of goalpost shifting…” Dec 6, 11:51
Mark Beggan on The cost of failure: “The Canadian Socialist experiment has failed. Treaty!Treaty! we don’t need no stinking Treaty! We’ve got the receipt for the beads…” Dec 6, 11:32
James Cheyne on The cost of failure: “This small nation is not alone and many Countries now want the same wants as Scotland, many nations will beat…” Dec 6, 10:49
James Cheyne on The cost of failure: “A Labour plan to devolve and create one supreme court is still on going, as is witnessed this week by…” Dec 6, 10:38
James Cheyne on The cost of failure: “The NuSNP are part of that system as are the devolved governments. Minor control given but altimate control reserved.” Dec 6, 10:15
Hatey McHateface on The cost of failure: “Some people like to point out that the Earth has a billion or two more people on it than it…” Dec 6, 10:11
James Cheyne on The cost of failure: “Repeating the same political policies in every governance over all the nations, most of them have roots (as a tool)…” Dec 6, 10:06
Hatey McHateface on The cost of failure: ““Next time brown skinned people make you feel uncomfortable have a look in the mirror” Not if they’re coming at…” Dec 6, 09:58
James Cheyne on The cost of failure: “Treaties being altered, repealed, textual changes, breached, not adhered too, used for annexation purposes, and control taken over by one…” Dec 6, 09:57
James Cheyne on The cost of failure: “What is interesting is how Canadians are saying prices are rising in every quarter over there causing the economical downfall…” Dec 6, 09:43
Hatey McHateface on The cost of failure: “So the “gas the Jews” remarks aren’t going to be forgotten, Confused? Wow. Where does that leave you?” Dec 6, 09:32
James Cheyne on The cost of failure: “Nigel Farage is also someone whom annouced that he would say no to Scotland if he came to power. With…” Dec 6, 09:20
