Why genocide is brilliant 82
Posted on
June 04, 2025 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Archive for the ‘misc’
Why I’m Never Leaving Twitter 236
Posted on
February 27, 2025 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
You just don’t get this sort of quality content on Bluesky. (They’d faint, poor lambs.)
And all the furry nappy porn is a poor substitute.
Hobson’s Law 164
Posted on
April 22, 2024 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
While we all wait for the thing we all really want to happen this week, try to pretend that the disastrous and pitiful “indy march and rally” at the weekend never took place, and do our best to ignore the fact that thanks to the weakness of Nicola Sturgeon and Humza Yousaf our country’s government is infested with lunatic extremist child-abuse apologists, let’s see if we can’t take some time out from all the doom and gloom to offer something constructive.
Not you, Patrick. This is for grown-ups, you can sit it out on your wee high chair.
Moving Out 123
Posted on
March 26, 2024 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Alert readers may recall that it’s only three-and-a-bit years since the SNP somehow spent £386,000 of its members’ money fitting out its party HQ at Jackson’s Entry in Edinburgh, a pricey piece of prime real estate just yards from Holyrood, with shiny new furniture while it was sitting empty during COVID.
So it’s a little surprising that they’re suddenly doing a flit now.
We wonder if there might be a downsizing in the offing.
In the tropical heat 73
Posted on
February 13, 2024 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We never got a response to our last job application, but we’re not easily dispirited here at Wings, so we’re trying again.
So little is happening in Scottish politics at the moment that we need SOMETHING to do all day. And let’s face it, the bar to improve on the previous incumbent isn’t high.
Public Information Announcement 228
Posted on
November 14, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
While we’re not talking about politics, here’s something else. I’ve just returned from Bath’s fine Royal United Hospital, where I’ve been getting a test done. (So as to avoid unnecessary dramatic tension, as far as anyone knows everything’s fine.)
A while ago I was having some intermittent but rather alarming trouble with swallowing – behave yourselves at the back, there – as well as a bit of general alimentary-canal oddness and mild discomfort, and went to see my doctor. She thought it was probably acid reflux and gave me omeprazole (which fixed the swallowing thing straight away), but just for safety also scheduled me for a barium scan at the hospital.
I’m a bit of a Nervous Nelly when it comes to any sort of medical procedure – this was my first time in a hospital on my own account – and went Googling to see what to expect. I found about 14 different leaflets from various NHS trusts, no two of which said the same thing, which wasn’t exactly reassuring.
What I wanted was a first-hand account or two from actual people who’d had it done, and rather to my surprise I couldn’t find any anywhere on the internet. So since I have a moderately widely-read website, I’m going to write one here for the benefit of not only Wings readers, but anyone else who might find themselves searching for one.
Stand by for some HOT REPORTING. (The above is a genuine RUH sign.)
Scouting For Bears 111
Posted on
June 02, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
There’s still nothing happening in Scottish politics, so inspired by the Hieland Coo from yesterday’s godawful Economist front-page story, and for those of you who don’t use Twitter, and by reader request, meet some of my new friends from the last couple of weeks of strolling around Bath, guarding against ursine incursion.
The Silence Of The Sacrificial Lambs 3,569
Posted on
February 07, 2022 by
Dr EM
Should disabled children be used as props to make men with sexual fetishes feel better? It doesn’t seem like a difficult question, does it?
The above quote is part of the heartfelt plea of a mother of a disabled daughter. We know that women and girls are vulnerable to male sexual violence, we know that men commit 98% of sex offences and we know that disabled children are three to four times more likely to experience abuse.
We just don’t seem to care.
We Are All Going To Hell 14
Posted on
February 01, 2022 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
I made the mistake of reading this on the BBC website today.
And I don’t think I’ve ever hated humanity more than I do right now.
Believing Her 639
Posted on
December 13, 2021 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
This is the last piece of data from our recent Panelbase poll.
Click image to enlarge. Full data tables here.
Homework exercise 201
Posted on
August 02, 2021 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We accidentally de-retired for a week last week because the outrage of Craig Murray’s imprisonment couldn’t be allowed to go unremarked. But we’re shutting back down again now, so here’s a fun challenge to occupy yourselves with in what’s left of what’s passed for the summer.
Because the feat described in that picture isn’t an easy one.
