That was a year that was 355
Posted on
December 31, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Archive for the ‘navel-gazing’
The Slightly Overweight Quiz Of The Year 144
Posted on
December 30, 2014 by
Andrew Leslie
A traditional brainteaser to test your Alert Reader Quotient for 2014. All the answers can be found somewhere on Wings (though not always in the obvious places).
Using the Search facility is cheating.
Asymmetric warfare 68
Posted on
December 24, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
From last night’s actually rather good “2014 – The Rory Review”:
BBC Scotland has 1,250 staff and an annual budget of just over £100 million. Yikes. We’re going to need a bigger fundraiser.
Behind the magic 158
Posted on
December 20, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We thought you might like a wee glimpse into the machinery.
Open to question 154
Posted on
December 12, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Whatever happened to that show, eh?
As alert readers may have noticed from social media, there’s very little going on in the world of Scottish politics right now so we’re having a wee Q&A session on Ask.FM to while away the time until we see who’s won Labour’s poisoned chalice tomorrow. If there’s anything you ever wanted to know about Wings, or me personally, why not pop over there and join us?
(Rude or boring questions will of course be deleted unanswered. “Rude” in this case includes asking questions that have already been answered. There’s currently a big backlog, but I’m working through it, and the link will stay live for the forseeable future.)
Souls in the system 109
Posted on
December 03, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We’ve been watching in some bafflement the continuation of this bizarre non-story from yesterday. (For which, incidentally, the P&J has published a correction today.)
As one in five Scottish children live in poverty and temperatures fall at the beginning of winter with many families facing the choice between heating their homes or buying food, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie apparently arrived at the conclusion that the most important thing he could be doing with his taxpayer-funded time was occupying the Scottish Parliament with a demand to know (for no immediately apparent reason) how often civil servants had accessed Wings Over Scotland in the six months leading up to the referendum.
A letter to the editor 234
Posted on
December 02, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
…of the Press & Journal.
From our community reporter 112
Posted on
October 24, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
It’s been a very slow news day today and it’s chucking it down outside, so we found ourselves stuck for entertainment. Earlier this afternoon alert readers will have noticed us tweeting about breaking through 35,000 Twitter followers, and while we were comparing that to various other entities for our own amusement (eg it’s over 10,000 more followers than Scottish Labour, the Scottish Conservatives and the Scottish Lib Dems put together), we stumbled across this feature from 16 months ago.
And because – as readers of our Panelbase polling features will know – there’s nothing we like more than the occasional wallow in some stats, we got to work.
The way ahead 376
Posted on
October 08, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We’re still on holiday until Tuesday, readers. But we wanted to ask you something.
The end of the beginning 206
Posted on
October 01, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Wings stats for September, for those keeping score.
34 months later 173
Posted on
September 01, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Wings Over Scotland officially launched on the 1st of November 2011, with a collection of posts imported from a personal blog. (The first original post didn’t appear until a week later.) It was meant just to be a small aggregator site of interesting stories from the newspapers with a short bit of commentary. That month we had 6,290 pageviews.
We’ve grown a bit since then.
Someone made this 193
Posted on
August 03, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
…for us off their own bat this week, unasked. It’s pretty awesome, though we haven’t the slightest idea what we could use it for. (What it really makes us want is a snazzy 1cm-thick cutout metal version of the logo to use as a poker guard. Anyone?)
But when we have our own nightly current-affairs TV show on an independent Scottish Broadcasting Service, it looks like the intro is pretty much sorted. 🙂
