Fair play to The National, the use of the word “HIS” in this banner on their front page today might be the single funniest thing ever printed by a Scottish newspaper.
Because everyone and his dug in Scotland knows whose strategy it actually is, and how many years Pete Wishart spent traducing it as nonsense and furiously venting his overworked spleen at anyone who advocated it – right up to the point where Nicola Sturgeon adopted it in a desperate last attempt to keep the indy faithful pushing the SNP gravy bus, at which point it became the greatest masterplan of all time.
But today’s piece in the indy equivalent of the Daily Express (albeit with only a tenth of the sales) is so jawdropping that we doubt even Robert Oppenheimer would be up to the job of putting a scorchmark on Wishart’s brass neck, so let’s spend five minutes having a look at it before we go out for a bit of sunshine.
Humza Yousaf is played here by Morgan Freeman, the big plane carrying the bomb is the independence movement and Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer are in the chopper.
Even quite alert Wings readers may not recall our brush with thoroughly obnoxious SNP councillor (and former chair of the misleadingly-named Aberdeen Independence Movement) Fatima Joji, because it happened such a long time ago.
But sometimes when someone behaves particularly egregiously in their professional role you have to at least give the proper grievance procedures a try (although it can prove very expensive to do so), and 13 months ago that’s what we did. We still have no idea how close we may be to the end of the process, but we have an update.
Look, we know. But there’s no news. Check out the state of it.
“KEYBOARD PLAYER ALLEGEDLY GOT FAT-SHAMED AT SOME UNSPECIFIED POINT IN TIME BY FOURTH-DIVISION BAND WHO LAST HAD A TOP 40 SINGLE IN 2006“ and “CYCLIST GOES TO TOILET”. Front pages.
(The keyboard player now works for SNP pie-disposal unit Anne McLaughlin, ironically, which seems to be the closest relationship the story has with current affairs. But hey, kudos to the Record for beating all the other papers to that “exclusive”.)
We remain alert. If anything remotely worthwhile happens, we’ll be on it.
The reality-TV let’s say “personality” Kelly Given – who Wings readers previously met on a trip to New York for Tartan Week with a raft of SNP let’s say “celebrities” a couple of months ago – has been off on another nice holiday.
Last night she told both the viewers of BBC Scotland’s “Seven Days” that she’d just spent three weeks on an island in Greece, where apparently she was quite shocked to discover that the Mediterranean nation was hot in July.
As far as we’re aware, LGBT Youth Scotland remains under police investigation for the suspected grooming and sexual exploitation of children. It’s impossible to imagine any other sort of organisation that could still expect to enjoy the patronage of a First Minister under such circumstances – especially when there were obvious other places he could be reasonably expected to show his face – but that’s how the SNP’s priorities roll in 2023 and there’s no getting away from it.
For any question to do with independence, folks, Humza Yousaf is not the answer.
Willie on Yelling at the tide: “Just watched the latest citizen of Minnesota beaten to the ground by ICE agents and then dispatched with some 10…” Jan 24, 19:27
TURABDIN on Yelling at the tide: “Just a thought…why are the online introductory pages of DSL all in English? Why does the DSL effectively treat the…” Jan 24, 18:59
Northcode on Yelling at the tide: ““…if some cite “Pictish DNA” (not so Billy Kay) as prime reason for championing it [Scots?], that logic seems not…” Jan 24, 18:54
Alf Baird on Yelling at the tide: “Its not that complicated at all. What you are describing are merely various forms of Cultural Imperialism. Language is one…” Jan 24, 18:38
sam on Yelling at the tide: “It is rather more complicated. https://media.scotslanguage.com/library/document/Scots%20Timeline%20Post-1700.pdf 1720’s Introduction to Scotland of the New Method of teaching English based directly on…” Jan 24, 18:20
James Cheyne on Yelling at the tide: “Chagos Islands, Thank goodness that Trump is stopping the financial fraud of funneling tax payers money out of Britain, Foreign…” Jan 24, 17:35
Marie on Yelling at the tide: “The world’s greatest living half-Scotsman (lol) has backtracked on his offensive lies – trouble is the dough ball has already…” Jan 24, 17:33
Alf Baird on Yelling at the tide: “As ‘a fowk’s’ langage is a determinant o the identity o the ‘fowk’ wha speak hit, it staunds tae reason…” Jan 24, 17:14
TURABDIN on Yelling at the tide: “if you compose text offline then paste and post, do you get moderated? it does seem so.” Jan 24, 16:44
James Cheyne on Yelling at the tide: “Following the archaeology of pictish digs, there is a pattern that implies the territorial boundaries and scope of pictland, i…” Jan 24, 16:33
sam on Yelling at the tide: “https://theconversation.com/how-celtic-languages-spread-across-britain-and-ireland-why-we-need-to-reconsider-the-early-story-271338 “..Recent studies of ancient DNA have revealed waves of migration into Britain from regions that are now in France…” Jan 24, 16:13
TURABDIN on Yelling at the tide: “Lallans speaking Scots settling in Orkney & Shetland aka Hjatland eventually ousted the local Norse, athough it survived long enough…” Jan 24, 15:47
DaveL on Yelling at the tide: ““… which was better than WW1 where they were 3” Aye and it took them six months to organise themselves…” Jan 24, 15:39
willie on Yelling at the tide: “It is truly outrageous how fickle Donald Trump and his administration are and how they can turn on longstanding friends…” Jan 24, 14:52
Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh on Yelling at the tide: “Billy Kay on page 52 (kindle version) of his ‘Mither Tongue” book states that “Scots is descended from Northumbrian.” However,…” Jan 24, 14:42
PC Foster on Yelling at the tide: “Confused says: so where do you get all the people you need now.? Dont know- but referring to women as…” Jan 24, 14:36
sam on Yelling at the tide: “Thanks, Northcode. I’ll mind that. Houaniver. Timeline of the Scots Language Since 1700 MODERN SCOTS PERIOD 1700 to Present, subdivided…” Jan 24, 13:27
Confused on Yelling at the tide: “worth watching all the way, at least till the UN guy explains the scam www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_2_7fxyIEI – it bears pointing out…” Jan 24, 13:16
sam on Yelling at the tide: “And the Scots speakers in the English parliament were laughed at. However, Elizabeth I did not scorn Scots language. She…” Jan 24, 13:15
Confused on Yelling at the tide: “quite funny – www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWWAC5ZMKeM www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDBjsFAyiwA accurate depiction of the sterility (on all aspects) of protestantism; but this heresy is dead…” Jan 24, 13:13
Confused on Yelling at the tide: “so trump spills the beans again, giving us truth british troops in the afghan were cowardly shites driving convertibles and…” Jan 24, 13:11
Cynicus on Yelling at the tide: “Sam; “Katie Beardie had a coo, Black and white about the mou; Wasna that a dentie coo? Dance, Katie Beardie”…” Jan 24, 12:38
James Cheyne on Yelling at the tide: “North Code. The picts were one of the original indigenous populations of Scotland, then came the influx from Ireland of…” Jan 24, 12:36
TURABDIN on Yelling at the tide: “SCOTLAND….THE LAND THAT SEEKS TO DIE. https://archive.is/icxqP” Jan 24, 12:28
Northcode on Yelling at the tide: “I did not know that, James. Thanks for enlightening me.” Jan 24, 12:28
Northcode on Yelling at the tide: “Here’s another interestiing book about the Scots, Sam How the Scots Invented the Modern World: (The True Story of How…” Jan 24, 12:24
James Cheyne on Yelling at the tide: “North code. Did you know that one of the first revision of Scots laws was because the applied implications (as…” Jan 24, 12:13
TURABDIN on Yelling at the tide: “re post, should read P CELTIC not Q CELTIC” Jan 24, 12:04
Northcode on Yelling at the tide: “Thanks, Sam… I don’t have this one and it looks interesting. I’ll have a read and let you know what…” Jan 24, 12:01
James Cheyne on Yelling at the tide: “The wokists in Scotland are the pretendy Scottish government. They are the ones that believe in this ideology cult, they…” Jan 24, 12:01
