Last month Wings broke a story about a “survey” being conducted by dozens of primary schools in the Aberdeen area in which children as young as nine were being asked about their sexual orientation and “gender identity”.
The charity LGBT Youth Scotland is currently the subject of a live police investigation over its involvement in a second major child-abuse scandal in little over a decade.
So you’d expect Police Scotland to be taking that pretty seriously, right?
Wings Over Scotland has been monitoring the BBC’s coverage of Scottish politics for over 11 years now, readers, and other than The Nick Robinson Incident we’re honestly struggling to remember seeing anything worse than this.
The Corporation’s “coverage” of Ash Regan’s campaign launch for the SNP leadership election ran for roughly seven minutes. And we suppose we should be grateful that it did at one point feature a brief, incidental cameo appearance from Ash Regan.
We read some harrowing tweets this week from an Edinburgh SNP activist. Sensitive readers should look away now, as the following article contains potentially triggering information about the wild and lawless streets of [checks notes] Corstorphine.
It’s remarkable how openly a certain faction of the SNP is now declaring surrender.
And it’s becoming increasingly clear that the events of the next few days and weeks will not just determine the future of the independence movement, but whether in any meaningful, practical sense it continues to exist at all.
Ross Weir on This Other Earth: “Time to reinstate law and order to Scotland, happy to help with a crowd funder!” Aug 26, 23:30
Effijy on This Other Earth: “It’s another Dugdale farce where justice can be bent, broken and covered up if and when required.” Aug 26, 23:13
Scotspine on This Other Earth: “So, its clear. COPFS is covering Swinney’s SNPs back.” Aug 26, 22:03
James Che on This Other Earth: “And Scots law was to remain the same, some treaty. Who would have thought it. A hoax, from start to…” Aug 26, 22:00
James Che on This Other Earth: “Indeed Scotland has no crown to have a Scottish Crown office in Scotland as under the English parliament acts it…” Aug 26, 21:48
Angus on This Other Earth: “Can you start the threatened action now?” Aug 26, 21:46
Skip_NC on This Other Earth: “If they’d said that there was insufficient evidence to prosecute any individual for embezzlement of the ring-fenced funds, it would…” Aug 26, 21:26
Willie on This Other Earth: “Lets be quite clear the Police are corrupt. Events with regard to how they prosecute some but utterly disregards others…” Aug 26, 21:12
gm on This Other Earth: “David Davies has had our respect for years.” Aug 26, 20:31
Mark Beggan on This Other Earth: “The elites fear of fears is appearing stupid in front of the plebs.” Aug 26, 20:05
Lollysmum on This Other Earth: “Unbelievable just unbelievable!” Aug 26, 19:47
Andy Wiltshire on This Other Earth: “That doesn’t surprise me, but maybe the IC could make this new (non)development publicly known.” Aug 26, 18:55
Campbell Clansman on This Other Earth: “They’ll NEVER admit to their own “mistake.” And they’ll never release the evidence that would show they didn’t prosecute due…” Aug 26, 18:46
Ian Smith on This Other Earth: “Can you ask police to investigate misconduct in public office by the Crown Office? The fact there is insufficient evidence…” Aug 26, 18:46
Hatey McHateface on This Other Earth: “Guardian reporting “Channel 5 drama to examine how Nicola Sturgeon’s estranged husband stole SNP funds”: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/aug/26/channel-5-drama-nicola-sturgeon-peter-murrell-snp Strikes me it would…” Aug 26, 18:36
Iain mhor on This Other Earth: “They keep admitting, in writing, that they have evidence a crime was committed, the crime of embezzlement. This is beyond…” Aug 26, 18:32
Wally Jumblatt on This Other Earth: ““there was insufficient evidence of any other criminality in relation to the investigation into allegations of mismanagement or misuse of…” Aug 26, 18:18
Dave on This Other Earth: “Off topic, but I took great satisfaction from seeing a copy of Sturgeon’s ‘Frankly’ relegated from ‘half-price’ to ‘clearance’ in…” Aug 26, 18:09
Robert on This Other Earth: “maybe I’m missing something: but if the Crown Office opinion is that the money was spent (rather than ring-fenced) due…” Aug 26, 18:08
Confounder on This Other Earth: “Stupefyingly corrupt, stupefyingly incompetent, or both.” Aug 26, 18:02
twathater on This Other Earth: “The condescension ingrained in that letter is palpable , these jobsworths are so up themselves that they believe they are…” Aug 26, 18:02
Chas on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: “You forgot about Che or Cheyne who produces endless amounts of drivel, all saying the same thing.” Aug 26, 18:01
robertkknight on This Other Earth: “Chequebook and pen poised, so to speak.” Aug 26, 17:56
Gille Brighde on This Other Earth: “The Crown Office is well aware that politicians lie all the time. It is therefore terrified that prosecuting Swinney and…” Aug 26, 17:49
Chris B on This Other Earth: “Right. Here’s a thought at the mention of good yins when talking about MPs and MSPs. I’ll declare an interest.…” Aug 26, 17:30
agentx on This Other Earth: ““Surely there must be several MSPs and MPs who would be willing to pursue this matter in their parliaments.” —————————————…” Aug 26, 17:30
Andy McColl on This Other Earth: “Jeezo. Will the last person tae leave Scotland please switch off the lights.” Aug 26, 17:23
Mark Beggan on This Other Earth: “Who sent the email? Was it out sourced to lame Liberal Excuses Ltd.” Aug 26, 17:17
