Surgical strike 185
Posted on
July 18, 2020 by
Chris Cairns
Archive for the ‘uk politics’
The land of mystery 282
Posted on
July 16, 2020 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The BBC website is playing it rather enigmatic this morning.
Does anyone know the name of the place it doesn’t want to say for some reason?
Transforming the question 313
Posted on
July 09, 2020 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The Huffington Post published a poll today, to the great delight of the likes of Stonewall Scotland, which seemed to fly in the face of every previous one on the idea of gender self-identification, a policy which appears to have been dumped by the UK government but is still very much in favour with the Scottish one.
That the poll had been commissioned by trans uber-fundamentalist website Pink News immediately set off alarm bells, especially as the site had previously asked a similar question, found dramatically different results and swiftly disappeared them.
As ever, Wings went looking for the truth.
Shiny beads and trinkets 205
Posted on
July 05, 2020 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Even by the intellectual standards of the Scottish media, this is a stupid question:
But just to be helpful, we’ll answer it: by a majority of more than 500 votes is how.
The indivisible kingdom 359
Posted on
July 04, 2020 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Holiday Boy is on holiday again. But this week we stumbled across a genuine piece of artwork that might explain a lot about the way Unionists think.
Happy Someone Else’s Independence Day, readers.
What is known as parklife 447
Posted on
June 24, 2020 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We’ve just been out for our evening constitutional in the relatively cool night air (Bath sweltered at an oppressive 30C today and Bear Patrol was pretty gruelling), and we thought readers might be interested in what we saw.
The city has observed lockdown with great diligence, as we’ve previously documented, and to be honest we’re not sufficiently familiar with the latest rules to say it wasn’t still doing so tonight. But a nearby park, around 9.30pm, was a disconcerting scene.
Down with democracy 237
Posted on
June 21, 2020 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
So, the good news today is that independence polling is finally back to where it was almost exactly four years ago – 26 June 2016, to be precise. Although we couldn’t help notice that The National’s front-page splash on the latest (re)surge was taking second billing in its readership stats to a day-old story about the First Minister’s haircut.
Now, as we noted earlier this month, that might just be down to people getting weary of false dawns. But it might also indicate that a measure of realism is belatedly beginning to dawn on the Yes movement about the lack of connection between nice poll numbers and actually securing another referendum.
From the archives #13 657
Posted on
June 14, 2020 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We’ve noticed a fair few Unionists this week proudly claiming that an independent Scotland would have been too broke to survive the coronavirus pandemic. They might not listen to our many and comprehensive rebuttals, but maybe they’d heed the words of Tony Blair, from way back in October 1987:
The sliding doors of history, there, readers. When Unionists tell you Scotland is feeble, remember who made it that way, and never forget how it could have been.
A minor confusion 463
Posted on
June 03, 2020 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Oh no, someone’s let Ian Murray say words again.
There’s only one small problem with that complaint.
