As all alert readers will know, this site likes to keep a watchful eye on the shady and disturbing activities of paedophilia-plagued charity LGBT Youth Scotland. So we were naturally intrigued to hear that they’d hired a new convenor last month.
And if you’re sitting there thinking, “Blimey, AI Christopher Walken looks very very ill”, well, stay tuned, because this story gets more and more interesting.
So Cathy Newman of Channel 4 News got herself a scoop last night.
And to be honest, readers, we were a bit confused. “Gender critical views” are not only lawful things to hold and express, they’re one of a small subset of opinions that are explicitly protected as such in law. And why would a man very occasionally airing some lawful and protected views on social media be a news story? You might as well run “BREAKING: Premiership footballer discovered to enjoy cheese-and-ham toasties”.
It seems that it’s fine to farm important judgments out to mysterious shadowy figures who just make important chunks of them up out of thin air, and then issue them in your own name. Back in your boxes, plebs.
This clip was broadcast on ITV News Wales this week.
It’s a staggeringly obvious mess for a whole raft of reasons – a number of completely spurious, illogical and unsupported claims are accepted as facts without any sort of challenge or balancing voice (which has been standard practice on ITV News for a while now across almost any contentious political topic) – but it led us to somewhere magnitudes of crazier still.
My first ever real experience of politics was playing Dictator.
Originally written by Don Priestley for the Sinclair ZX81 in 1982, it was a simple text-based game which subsequently came to other formats including the Commodore 64, BBC Micro, Elan Enterprise and the ZX Spectrum, which is where I encountered it.
Something very odd happened when the Sandie Peggie employment tribunal delivered its judgment – and it wasn’t just the made-up quotes and mangled law.
Call it institutional bias, ideological capture, or just the law doing its job, but what Employment Judge Sandy Kemp’s tribunal delivered was the most one-sided outcome since Butch and Sundance decided to come out shooting.
Because, y’know, you can call us old-fashioned purists or sticklers or whatever if you like, but government ministers probably shouldn’t openly lie in prepared statements to the High Court in order to pervert the course of justice.
As recently as this weekend, the Scottish Government claimed that it has “made clear it accepts the Supreme Court ruling [in For Women Scotland] and is taking forward the detailed work necessary”.
But as with so much the Scottish Government says, it’s a barefaced lie.
We thought we should keep track of all the issues with the Peggie tribunal judgment, now that Sandie Peggie has officially announced her intention to appeal it.
Northcode on Do You Believe In The Westwood?: ““Luckily, the international community are largely brown and easily mislead.” This sentence is grammatically incorrect… unless the intention was to…” Apr 16, 10:00
Hatey McHateface on Do You Believe In The Westwood?: ““The international community are well aware that England-as-UK was and remains a serial global colonizing power” It remains to be…” Apr 16, 09:44
Northcode on Do You Believe In The Westwood?: “A reminder: Ther scarce be a wird pit doun here fae colonialists (unyonists if preferryd… baith be alike) that’s onythin’…” Apr 16, 09:42
Aidan on Do You Believe In The Westwood?: “There is some truth in that Hatey, although in the extremely unlikely event that BCP allowed these two into the…” Apr 16, 09:38
Geri on Do You Believe In The Westwood?: “It’s ABNORMAL for a country to give its assets away to its neighbour for free. Its even more ABNORMAL not…” Apr 16, 09:23
Hatey McHateface on Do You Believe In The Westwood?: ““would have made us the wealthiest nation in the world” Some of that oil wealth is still there, Alf. Three…” Apr 16, 09:21
Aidan on Do You Believe In The Westwood?: “How would an independent Scotland force rUK to buy 100% of Scotland’s renewable energy generation capacity (at the highest possible…” Apr 16, 09:00
Alf Baird on Do You Believe In The Westwood?: “The international community is appreciative being informed of Scotland’s annexation and colonization by England-as-UK. The international community are well aware…” Apr 16, 09:00
Alf Baird on Do You Believe In The Westwood?: ““the total value of all the electricity produced” You need to aggregate the productive capacity of all offshore wind energy…” Apr 16, 08:46
Hatey McHateface on Do You Believe In The Westwood?: “An article about the knock-on effects of President Trump’s smiting of the medievalists: https://unherd.com/newsroom/opec-slump-points-to-lasting-oil-crisis/ There are obvious opportunities for Scottish…” Apr 16, 08:36
Hatey McHateface on Do You Believe In The Westwood?: ““describe to us the “immense benefits” that have been realised by the 2x trips to Geneva and the 2x trips…” Apr 16, 08:04
Hatey McHateface on Do You Believe In The Westwood?: “What a night you’ve had, YL. Only readers with hearts of stone could fail to feel your pain. I want…” Apr 16, 07:46
Captain Caveman on Do You Believe In The Westwood?: “… But you don’t “laugh at us”, Rambo. Rather, you get triggered daily, have hugely embarrassing, unhinged, public (3am) meltdowns,…” Apr 16, 07:46
Aidan on Do You Believe In The Westwood?: “Is it Geri? Well perhaps you could describe to us the “immense benefits” that have been realised by the 2x…” Apr 16, 07:24
Aidan on Do You Believe In The Westwood?: “@Alf – the total value of all the electricity produced by all sources in the entirety of the U.K. is…” Apr 16, 06:04
Young Lochinvar on Do You Believe In The Westwood?: “Brilliant C That’s not just for Hatey- Broke -Back Mountain v2. but for Wilma Flintstone, Pastor Faggat, Beggars, AI dun,…” Apr 16, 02:51
Confused on Do You Believe In The Westwood?: “a song for main-face I see he/it has put in a shift today – never mind the quality, feel the…” Apr 16, 00:59
Young Lochinvar on Do You Believe In The Westwood?: “It’s panicking folks, Hatey McBrokeback -Mountain face v.2 is struggling! Lordy, you cannae wash away the gay, and, well, 18…” Apr 16, 00:35
Young Lochinvar on Do You Believe In The Westwood?: “Hatey McBrokeback-Mountain-face v.2 Don’t you mean; both votes Scotchland Greens? That’s where you were hovering earlier-Beaker Queer fixation and all…” Apr 16, 00:05
Hatey McHateface on Do You Believe In The Westwood?: ““Scotland will be worth a lot more to our ‘procurer’ than £150bn a year now” Of course, Alf. Make it…” Apr 15, 23:12
Hatey McHateface on Do You Believe In The Westwood?: “Ah, c’moan noo, James. Do you think I want to miss seeing the UN declare Scotland a colony? Miss Swinney’s…” Apr 15, 23:07
Hatey McHateface on Do You Believe In The Westwood?: ““I think there is truth in this” No shit, Sherlock! But then you think there is truth in everything and…” Apr 15, 22:59
Alf Baird on Do You Believe In The Westwood?: “Scotland will be worth a lot more to our ‘procurer’ than £150bn a year now, what with upwards of £100bn…” Apr 15, 22:51
James on Do You Believe In The Westwood?: “Naw….for you, just go the whole hog, lights out. Do Scotland a favour.” Apr 15, 22:46
Hatey McHateface on Do You Believe In The Westwood?: ““It must kill you that international law is on their side, not yours” I’ll keep an eye on that. Thanks…” Apr 15, 22:46
Geri on Do You Believe In The Westwood?: “I think you’ll find it’s actually called “networking” It is of immense benefit. People mingle, make contacts, are introduced to…” Apr 15, 22:43
Hatey McHateface on Do You Believe In The Westwood?: “Man, YL, you’ve defo got a bit of an obsession with shirt lifting going on right now. My advice is…” Apr 15, 22:35
Geri on Do You Believe In The Westwood?: “It must kill you that international law is on their side, not yours. In both conflicts. Always on the wrong…” Apr 15, 22:11
Young Lochinvar on Do You Believe In The Westwood?: “HMcH (Broke Back Mountain v.2) @ 6.13 Now now Hatey v.2! The free bus passes for all is a Scotchland…” Apr 15, 22:08
Confused on Do You Believe In The Westwood?: “I have heard of “gay for pay” but “gay for STAY”; who does the “testing”? Some lowly civil servant will…” Apr 15, 21:55
