For the combatants in the gender wars, it’s been quite a spring and summer here in the TERF Island theatre of battle.
In February, polling company YouGov revealed the vast extent to which public opinion has shifted around the issue (significantly though not entirely in the wake of the Cass Review last April), which we reported on via a snazzy Stalingrad metaphor. But just as with Stalingrad, it was only the precursor to the recapture of territory on an epic scale.
And this is what they say elsewhere, when they think nobody in Scotland is looking:
One day someone’s going to tell them about the internet, and our life’s going to get a lot more difficult. Until that day, though, let’s just enjoy the laughs.
Regular readers of Wings won’t need any reminding that Dani Garavelli of the Herald is, among some very stiff competition, one of the most contemptible pieces of nightsoil currently operating in the Scottish media.
But if you’re new here, we can give you a quick illustration.
If the sneering piety of that opening paragraph made you feel a little revolted, a bit angry and somewhat nauseous, then congratulations, because that means you’re still something minimally approximating to a decent human being. But unfortunately it gets a lot worse from there.
We’ll be honest, readers, we gasped out loud when we saw this.
That such a basic, fundamental truth of human existence should ever be front page news with the capacity to shock 100,000 years after we invented language is a sign of just how insane our world has become since 2015.
But magnificent as it is, it’s not even today’s BEST front cover.
We wouldn’t be Wings if we didn’t round off this evening with a representative selection of some of the more measured and thoughtful responses from transactivists across the UK to today’s Supreme Court judgment.
So fetch some sort of celebratory beverage, settle down in your comfiest armchair in front of the fire (‘cos it’s been Baltic today) and enjoy the Sounds Of Kindness.
For those among you who don’t have the time or patience to wade through 88 pages of judicial lingo, we’ve distilled today’s Supreme Court judgment down to its key points.
Much of it, of course, can be summarised as “the bleeding obvious”.
We’ve all got a lot of extremely heavy reading and pondering to do now. But the short version of the outcome of For Women Scotland vs The Scottish Ministers is this:
On the face of the judgment just handed down live in the courtroom, a more absolute, comprehensive and legally momentous defeat for the Scottish Government – and the forces of gender ideology in general – seems difficult to imagine.
But we’ll get back to you on that after all the reading. Today, we’re just going to stand and salute FWS and their richly-deserved triumph. See you later.
Welcome back to what will hopefully be normal service after we’ve been spending the last few days battling off a determined and temporarily successful attempt at hacking the site. Apologies to those who had clicks intercepted and redirected to a malware site which tried to get people to download dodgy .EXE files, but our readers are far too alert to ever fall for such things so no harm should have been done.
So back to business, which for us often means pointing out things that have been said in newspapers that aren’t true, which brings us to last Friday’s issue of The National.
As alert Wings readers will know, we’re fond of a WW2 analogy from time to time. The conflict is so extensively documented, and so deeply embedded in British culture (for both good and ill), that it’s a reliable tool for getting points across concisely and clearly.
(It’s also one of the last major wars in which, overall, the good guys and the bad guys were pretty indisputably easy to identify.)
So let’s keep that in mind for a moment while we look at this.
Hatey McHateface on Shield Of The Phantom: “Guardian Online reporting that forces loyal to the ooya tollas may have slaughtered in excess of 30,000 of their own…” Jan 27, 19:01
Hatey McHateface on Shield Of The Phantom: “Fit’s that ye say, Sooty? Why do James and Dave find it impossible to engage with the facts in my…” Jan 27, 17:43
Peter McAvoy on Shield Of The Phantom: “I forgot to mention earlier that due to the scrapping of double jeopardy,some in the COPFS would have pursued Alex…” Jan 27, 17:34
David Holden on Shield Of The Phantom: “I take it the site troll is getting paid by the word as he knows a lot and is not…” Jan 27, 17:26
James Barr Gardner on Shield Of The Phantom: “Woolwich Crown Court was intended to serve as a high-security courtroom and became the preferred venue for terrorism trials. A…” Jan 27, 17:09
Aidan on Shield Of The Phantom: “Of course that isn’t true at all Xaracen, in any way shape or form, the Lords Privilege Committee never said…” Jan 27, 16:59
James on Shield Of The Phantom: “You’re on drugs, right? Or is this supposed to be some half-arsed parody? Keep posting, it’s comedy gold – the…” Jan 27, 16:24
Hatey McHateface on Shield Of The Phantom: ““Our gap in legal knowledge is very evident. Scots are sorely lacking in lawyers with competence in treaty making” Just…” Jan 27, 16:20
Hatey McHateface on Shield Of The Phantom: “Xaracen You’ve accomplished the remarkable fact of agreeing with and even augmenting my claim whilst simultaneously avoiding acknowledging what it…” Jan 27, 16:14
Alf Baird on Shield Of The Phantom: ““the legal teams of all kinds in Scotland do not appear to share a brain” Our gap in legal knowledge…” Jan 27, 16:06
Hatey McHateface on Shield Of The Phantom: “The NHS in its current form is unaffordable, James. The only reason you think it is affordable is because you…” Jan 27, 16:05
Hatey McHateface on Shield Of The Phantom: “Today, the body of the last remaining hostage is finally home. President Donald Trump gets a lot of stick from…” Jan 27, 15:47
Lorna Campbell on Shield Of The Phantom: “Sandie Peggie’s team are appealing, but I’m not at all sure they can appeal the substance, but, rather, the way…” Jan 27, 14:48
Xaracen on Shield Of The Phantom: “Hatey said; “the Kingdom Of Scotland existed virtually unbroken for near 9 centuries until 1707.” Not so, Hatey. According to…” Jan 27, 14:47
Peter McAvoy on Shield Of The Phantom: “Regarding the English courts being superior or prefered. I have no legal training or experience but I can say for…” Jan 27, 14:43
James Cheyne on Shield Of The Phantom: “It is worthy of noting for a second time today that England altered its dates on a 1707 International recognised…” Jan 27, 14:13
James Cheyne on Shield Of The Phantom: “The present problem in Scotland is us, all of us are pretending we have a Scottish parliament which for any…” Jan 27, 13:55
James Cheyne on Shield Of The Phantom: “If the community in Scotland are sovereign first in the Scottish constitution then it is up to the people all…” Jan 27, 13:45
Lorna Campbell on Shield Of The Phantom: “That still does not explain why the errors were not simply random, but every one landed spot on the ‘trans’…” Jan 27, 13:37
James Cheyne on Shield Of The Phantom: “Alf Baird, It reads as I remembered, But here lies the contention with the pretendy Scottish parliament changing the laws…” Jan 27, 13:35
Cynicus on Shield Of The Phantom: ““ The law Lord in summing up said that a decision would be given in one week avizandum. But we…” Jan 27, 13:35
James on Shield Of The Phantom: “Effijy; Well said. It wasn’t Europe who planted unwanted nuclear bombs next to Scotland’s largest city or who have leeched…” Jan 27, 13:23
Cynicus on Shield Of The Phantom: ““The main issue is that an obvious mistake was made…..” ====== Should not the second word in the above statement…” Jan 27, 13:17
Alf Baird on Shield Of The Phantom: “Oor Scottish Constitution, in Scots an Englis: https://salvo.scot/scottish-constitution/” Jan 27, 12:15
Alf Baird on Shield Of The Phantom: “Yer hope has been realised Willie, its just got the go-ahead. Lets now see what legal acrobatics our imperial oppressor…” Jan 27, 11:58
willie on Shield Of The Phantom: “And while we are considering the matter of a lying dissembling judge and wider compromised judiciary where, o where, has…” Jan 27, 11:09
James Cheyne on Shield Of The Phantom: “Alf Baird, It does however confirm the Colony condition that Scotland has been claiming and goes further into the new…” Jan 27, 10:54
James Cheyne on Shield Of The Phantom: “Difficult to define Scotland position on Constitution regards monarchy, Scotland as a republic Country does not seem to taken up…” Jan 27, 10:38
