I still don’t like JK Rowling, for reasons I set out earlier this week. I certainly never in a million years imagined I’d ever find myself in a position where I respected her 50 times more than I do Nicola Sturgeon.
My legal team and I have just received, unexpectedly early, the sheriff’s verdict in my defamation case against Kezia Dugdale. The short and paraphrased version is that yes, she did defame me by inaccurately calling me a homophobe, but because she’s an idiot who doesn’t know what words mean, she’s allowed to, so we lose.
It’s always nice to see Michelle Mone in the news again, especially when the Tory peer crowbars an attempted intervention into Scottish politics into everything she does.
And since there’s not much else going on, it seemed like a good excuse to have a wee delve into what she’s been up to lately.
I apologise in advance to readers for the personal indulgence of this post.
Some months ago, quite coincidentally, I happened to avail myself of Twitter’s archive function, which allows users to download their entire tweet history. For various reasons I’ve been looking at it recently, and until I did I’d been unaware that it records not just a user’s own tweets, but also the tweets from other people that they’ve retweeted.
I’ve collected some of Wings’ tweets and retweets – in reverse chronological order – below. (Famously, of course, RTs aren’t necessarily endorsements, but you can decide on the underlying tone for yourself. Each of them links to the original tweet so you can see the whole conversation, or click on the links being referenced.)
They’re all on one subject, by way of illustration, because Twitter is a transient medium full of people all too eager to jump at the slightest excuse to make spurious and hateful allegations about everything (and anyone) under the sun to serve their own agendas, and for the sake of the future of human discourse it’s worth remembering that nothing exists in isolation or free of context, and we shouldn’t jump too easily to conclusions.
Great news, readers! After years of requests, it’s now finally possible to possess and cherish your very own adorable cuddly toy version of Wings’ symbolic embodiment of benign and welcoming independence, Hamish the lion!
This site is still hampered by the consequences of TotallyUnbelievableMadnessGate, so until normal service is resumed here’s a quick recap of a few stories from the last few days you may have missed.
Since it now looks increasingly like we might be doing this indyref thing all over again pretty soon, we thought you’d like to meet our Fulfilment Department:
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Hatey McHateface on The Blindness Of Hatred: “Not just yoons. Anybody who even looks like they might not see eye-to-eye with you on everything. Why take chances?” May 13, 07:22
Hatey McHateface on The Blindness Of Hatred: “You’re 74 TH, so surely ideal guinea pig material. Why don’t you step up to the plate and give the…” May 13, 07:15
GM on The Blindness Of Hatred: “Yes, a good writer. I don’t know here bu A genuine person I believe. I read her articles.” May 12, 22:45
Anthem on The Blindness Of Hatred: “Totally agree James. I’ve suggested many times that it will be English mps at Westminster that’ll cause the union to…” May 12, 21:17
Dan on The Blindness Of Hatred: “I’m appreciative of a lot of Leah Gunn Barrett’s output. https://dearscotland.substack.com/p/privatisation-foreign-ownership-and It sure beats a pair of dung beetles argybargying…” May 12, 20:14
Robert Matthews on The Blindness Of Hatred: “Great idea sarah, i think i will too.” May 12, 19:44
Skip_NC on The Blindness Of Hatred: “Sarah, ach, I wonder if Alba senior leadership is still struggling with Alex’s death. There is a lot of talk…” May 12, 19:32
Rev. Stuart Campbell on The Blindness Of Hatred: “Dishonesty is the hallmark of how he handles all interactions with anyone.” May 12, 19:27
Skip_NC on The Blindness Of Hatred: “Do you really want a system where two main parties take turns at being an elective dictatorship? It’s all very…” May 12, 19:19
George Ferguson on The Blindness Of Hatred: “Good article Stu on the Electoral Stats. One thing I would have commented on was the win versus expenses ratio.…” May 12, 18:53
James Cheyne on The Blindness Of Hatred: “MaryB, When we get around to running our own parliament perhaps it would be wiser to just count a single…” May 12, 18:29
James Cheyne on The Blindness Of Hatred: “Anthem. Only starmer knows what goes on in his head, not even the rest of the labour party know.it took…” May 12, 18:19
twathater on The Blindness Of Hatred: “TBQH I support the dignity in dying bill as long as proper rules and regulations are adhered to, I am…” May 12, 18:18
agent x on The Blindness Of Hatred: “For God’s sake – the head of the Royal Navy cannot bonk a willing WREN. What on Earth is the…” May 12, 18:03
twathater on The Blindness Of Hatred: “Del you strike me as a snp apologist or sycophant with your snp good pish, where have you been for…” May 12, 17:56
James Cheyne on The Blindness Of Hatred: “Fearghas, I will look for those snippets of information. Here is another one of those glitches to Scots being in…” May 12, 17:47
Wilson Pickett on A Poor Example: “So this is the level of contribution to Wings now, is it? How the mighty have fallen, son.” May 12, 17:42
Anthem on The Blindness Of Hatred: “Does Starmers immigration announcement apply to the English in Scotland?” May 12, 17:32
factchecker on The Blindness Of Hatred: “The concept of the ‘sovereign Scots’ is interesting. Can anyone tell me when in history the sovereign Scots were ever…” May 12, 17:14
Owen Mullions on The Blindness Of Hatred: “Today marks the 4th blog in a row from James Kelly about the man he says is obsessed with him.…” May 12, 15:56
MaryB on The Blindness Of Hatred: “Is it any wonder that people are confused about how the Scottish voting systems work when there are three different…” May 12, 14:36
Martin McGarry on The Blindness Of Hatred: “I’m not Scottish and have never had a vote in Scotland, so Scottish tactical voting is not something I know…” May 12, 14:03
Xaracen on The Blindness Of Hatred: “King Charles is not entitled to demand allegiance from any Scot for any reason, and no-one is entitled to demand…” May 12, 13:56
Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh on The Blindness Of Hatred: “As introduction and tribute to Paul H. Scott (mentioned in my Lockhart post above) please visit the following Sir Walter…” May 12, 13:48
James Cheyne on The Blindness Of Hatred: “Holyrood usage As a secondary ( even a sub-parliament ) by extention from Westminster, passing “Scots law” bills separately in…” May 12, 13:32
Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh on The Blindness Of Hatred: “I would like to draw attention to the book: ‘SCOTLAND’S RUINE: LOCKHART OF CARNWATH’S MEMOIRS OF THE UNION’ (Edited by…” May 12, 13:02
James Cheyne on The Blindness Of Hatred: “Re – The assisted Killing / murder bill going through Holyrood. The problem with these bills going through Scotlands parliament…” May 12, 12:37
sarah on The Blindness Of Hatred: “Thanks for the nudge – I will email my MSPs now.” May 12, 12:28
sarah on The Blindness Of Hatred: “Well, Skip NC, for heaven’s sake why doesn’t Alba come under the umbrella grouping? It would mean no wasted votes…” May 12, 12:27