Wings Over Scotland

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• Old Bill on A Thousand Islands In The Sea: “The Duty of Candour is already activated in the Police Scotland Standards of Professional Behaviour and to avoid this, carelessly,…” Sep 18, 16:50
• Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh on A Thousand Islands In The Sea: “Informative exploration of MacDiarmid’s use of the term ‘antisyzygy’. (I don’t necessarily endorse Malgrati’s entire pitch.) ‘ANTISYZYGY’: AN ESCAPE ROUTE…” Sep 18, 15:51
• Spartan 117 on A Thousand Islands In The Sea: “There’s something stunningly ironic (some would even say offensive, but I’m not easily that way) in a non-Scot lecturing *me*…” Sep 18, 15:47
• Alf Baird on A Thousand Islands In The Sea: “…and this is why the colonizer (and his group acting collectively btl here) ‘hates theory’ (Memmi) – because it unveils…” Sep 18, 15:07
• Alf Baird on A Thousand Islands In The Sea: ““being in denial, stubborn pride maybe, regarding Scotland’s current status is a psychological aberration which the thinkers you quote would…” Sep 18, 15:04
• Mark Beggan on A Thousand Islands In The Sea: “But all you get is the C word nicely feathered in a word salad. Maybe you could ask him to…” Sep 18, 14:51
• TURABDIN on A Thousand Islands In The Sea: “@ ALF BAIRD Those who attack you make your case. Scotland did not start out as a unionist colony but…” Sep 18, 14:13
• Hatey McHateface on A Thousand Islands In The Sea: “Naw, Mark. Every time Alf reads one of my posts he starts choking and somebody has to perform the Heimlich…” Sep 18, 13:37
• Spartan 117 on A Thousand Islands In The Sea: “Ah Alf, so it’s somebody else’s fault ye huv tae yaise thon Coloniser’s tung, nae yur ain? An whit “Scots”…” Sep 18, 13:34
• Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh on A Thousand Islands In The Sea: “Book review: ‘SUPERHERO COMICS AND SCOTTISH IDENTITY: The Comics Art Of Frank Quitely’ « The authors are academics, interrogating Scottish…” Sep 18, 13:20
• Mark Beggan on A Thousand Islands In The Sea: “@Hatey Have you become Alf’s Feeder? Shame.” Sep 18, 13:16
• Aidan on A Thousand Islands In The Sea: “@Alf – repetitive, excessive, and largely meaningless writing focused relentlessly on the same subject, often to the point of becoming…” Sep 18, 13:16
• Aidan on A Thousand Islands In The Sea: ““There are several others regularly contributing BTL who post nothing but hate, single-minded psuedoacademic wibble or just plain unintelligible drunken…” Sep 18, 13:07
• Hatey McHateface on A Thousand Islands In The Sea: “@ Alf Baird says: 18 September, 2026 at 12:34 pm “The main point here is the need for a colonized…” Sep 18, 13:02
• Alf Baird on A Thousand Islands In The Sea: “The main point here is the need for a colonized people to understand the linguistic and cultural impacts of colonialism,…” Sep 18, 12:34
• lothianlad on A Thousand Islands In The Sea: “They are mnoe starting to really panic. Their attempt at distancing and evasion wont work. They will be held to…” Sep 18, 12:27
• Hatey McHateface on A Thousand Islands In The Sea: “@ Spartan 117 says: 18 September, 2026 at 10:34 am I think Alf finds himself in a bind. Although he…” Sep 18, 12:07
• Alf Baird on A Thousand Islands In The Sea: ““Is this tae dae wi’ thon Colonialism yur aie haverin’ aboot?” Colonialism is ‘obscured by assimilation’ (Memmi), and the colonized…” Sep 18, 12:06
• Hatey McHateface on A Thousand Islands In The Sea: ““a culturally-intertwined political identity (Pettigrew), which creates ‘a manufactured being’ (Memmi)” As always, Alf, you give us much to think…” Sep 18, 11:54
• Spartan 117 on A Thousand Islands In The Sea: “Ah huv tae sae Alf, how come ye’ve nivver gien ony o’ yer lectchurs or speeches thit ‘uv been watchin’…” Sep 18, 10:34
• Spartan 117 on A Thousand Islands In The Sea: “There are several others regularly contributing BTL who post nothing but hate, single-minded psuedoacademic wibble or just plain unintelligible drunken…” Sep 18, 10:17
• Hatey McHateface on A Thousand Islands In The Sea: “An insightful, forensic dissection of my post and the article I link to from Dave. Whilst I may not agree…” Sep 18, 10:12
• Alf Baird on A Thousand Islands In The Sea: ““when it comes to Scottish Indy, ideological purity is all” There you go again, Hatey, blaming the colonized native for…” Sep 18, 10:04
• DaveL on A Thousand Islands In The Sea: ““Words of wisdom”; you have none. You have hate and death supporting obnoxious rants and that’s all. Who’d be Hatey?” Sep 18, 09:30
• Hatey McHateface on A Thousand Islands In The Sea: “An interesting article about the people who are going to have many BTL readers unable to afford to keep themselves…” Sep 18, 08:48
• TimePilot on A Thousand Islands In The Sea: “Exactly that. They got a 50% reduction in the fine because its a public body/tax payers money and the impact…” Sep 18, 08:35
• Hatey McHateface on A Thousand Islands In The Sea: “Guardian Opinion piece gung ho for Indy: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/18/westminster-celtic-alliance-scotland-wales-ireland-uk If Jenkins has even heard of Fanon, Memmi, etc, he sees no…” Sep 18, 08:15
• Hatey McHateface on A Thousand Islands In The Sea: “Sure, twathater, state ownership would guarantee the ports were run competently, transparently, and with the best interests of Scotland at…” Sep 18, 07:56
• twathater on A Thousand Islands In The Sea: “However, Forth Ports said its focus had shifted to “delivering alternative activity at the port” after considering “a number of…” Sep 18, 03:11
• twathater on A Thousand Islands In The Sea: “When you go on to the ICO’s website about the investigation into Police Scotland they state that ” Where we…” Sep 18, 02:59