Virtual Reality 293
Posted on
May 25, 2024 by
Chris Cairns
Archive for the ‘scottish politics’
The Misogyny Alliance 99
Posted on
May 24, 2024 by
Magi Gibson
As a writer, feminist and literary events organiser in Scotland, I’m regularly sent links to information someone thinks might be of interest to me. This week it was a document commissioned by one of Scotland’s leading and most powerful publicly-funded literary organisations, Literature Alliance Scotland (LAS).
Nobody, of course, objects to transgender writers being included or supported, but the content of the guidance raises several extremely serious and concerning issues.
Contractual obligations 99
Posted on
May 24, 2024 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We suppose we should talk about the general election for a bit.
It’s going to be awful. Will that do?
When To Stop Lying 86
Posted on
May 23, 2024 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
So we’ve had a response from Adam Ramsay to our article of yesterday about him. We’ll publish it in full, in the interests of fairness.
And, well, we wouldn’t be doing our job if we didn’t ask some questions.
Adam Ramsay Is Definitely A Liar 126
Posted on
May 22, 2024 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
There’s something very unusual – possibly unique, we think – about the reaction of the transactivist community to this week’s tribunal judgement in Roz Adams vs Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre (ERCC).
Normally in cases like these, there’s an instant and concerted attempt to rubbish the judgement, both from amateurs and activist lawyers like Robin Moira “Barry” White, Jolyon Maugham, and the anonymous “Pissed Off Lawyer” tweeting as @legaltweetz. They’ll issue spurious “analyses” dismissing the findings with jargon terms like “obiter”, and either question their correctness or attempt to minimise their significance.
For some reason that didn’t happen this time. The hyper-antagonist online trans army has very conspicuously failed to rush to the defence of ERCC CEO Mridul Wadhwa, perhaps because Judge Ian McFatridge’s conclusions were so relentlessly, brutally and comprehensively excoriating of Wadhwa’s appalling behaviour that no amount of spin or disingenuity could disguise it.
But then, on white charger and with papoose, enter a hero.
Ladies and gentlemen (and non-binary genderfluids), meet Adam Ramsay.
Man At Work 261
Posted on
May 20, 2024 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The judgement in the case of a support worker constructively dismissed by Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre in 2022 is one of the most excoriating we’ve ever read.
Mridul Wadhwa, a man with whom Wings readers have been familiar for some years, was found by the tribunal judge to have been “the invisible hand behind everything that had taken place” as Roz Adams, a conscientious, caring and highly professional woman with a long history in the sector, was systematically and methodically hounded out of her job for holding, privately and sensitively, the belief that biological sex is real.
Missing Memory Man 61
Posted on
May 17, 2024 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We watched Question Time last night for the first time in about nine years, and this comment from SNP Westminster leader Stephen Flynn raised an eyebrow.
Because we couldn’t remember ANY times that Flynn had publicly expressed any problems with the Scottish Greens during their governing alliance.
A Better Togetherness 359
Posted on
May 15, 2024 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The National have buried this pretty quickly in understandable embarrassment:
Because some things are just a little TOO on-the-nose for comfort.
Hate Has No Genitalia 51
Posted on
May 14, 2024 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We’ve just rather belatedly (the request was sent on 14 March and should have been responded to a month ago) received this:
It’s official: the Hate Monster is non-binary.
You’ve Been Had 268
Posted on
May 13, 2024 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The picture editor of The Times must have been delighted with this gift.
But it’s a very accurate picture, and fairly used.
