The Scottish media has worked itself into an indignant froth over the last few days about the appearance of Sputnik News – an Edinburgh-based arm of a publicly-owned, state-run Russian news agency, fronted by (among others) former Dateline Scotland and NewsShaft stars Jack Foster and Carolyn Scott.
(Any resemblance to publicly-owned, state-run national news agencies of questionable impartiality in other countries is of course entirely coincidental and totally different.)
The Sunday Herald ran a bizarre smear piece yesterday on the pair’s past fundraising initiatives for their two previous projects (which were obviously completely unrelated to Sputnik), and today’s Times has an even weirder column by Melanie Reid in which Foster and Scott are directly and startlingly compared to the Cuban Missile Crisis:
We tried, for the purposes of satire, to think of another country that played host to nuclear missiles that were controversially imposed on it by an external government, but unfortunately we couldn’t come up with anything. Sorry about that.
If there haven’t been as many posts on this site as people might expect at a time of such incredible political turmoil, it’s because Wings isn’t at heart a commentary blog. We don’t do a lot of flat-out opinion pieces, tending to concern ourselves more with measurable, empirical facts, and since nobody knows anything about anything at the moment, we haven’t had all that much useful to say.
But the closest thing there is right now to a certainty is that sometime quite soon, Unionist politicians in Scotland are going to have to grow up and deal with this:
And their problem is that there’s no possible way to.
So the official Westminster line is that Scotland will HAVE to become independent if it wants to remain in the EU. We’re sure the FM will be absolutely gutted to hear that.
Earlier today we were moved to tweet our scepticism regarding a claim made by the Scottish Labour branch manager Kezia Dugdale, as reported in the Guardian.
Even on the most casual glance, the numbers just didn’t seem to add up. If 62% of Scots voted to stay in the EU and 55% voted to stay in the UK, with no correlation between the two things, then the Venn-diagram intersection between those two groups seems pretty unlikely to add up to more than 50%, let alone a “vast” majority.
Young Lochinvar on Believers In The Ruins: “HMcH @ 2.11 Sorry, but that is as disingenuous an argument as it was when first put about by Unionists.…” Aug 15, 00:59
Oneliner on Believers In The Ruins: “At least 1 of the 56,675 was schooled in covert surveillance.” Aug 14, 23:26
aLurker on Believers In The Ruins: “@sam “Royal Commission on Scottish Affairs 1952-1954 Report.” https://openlibrary.org/books/OL21768224M/Royal_Commission_on_Scottish_Affairs_1952-1954_Report.” Aug 14, 21:56
Chas on Believers In The Ruins: “I will ask again Alf, who would you replace the dozen or so hapless SNP minosters with following Independence. Some…” Aug 14, 21:36
Confused on Believers In The Ruins: “every nite is bonfire night in the g4z4 strip; why oh why did those people build their houses within the…” Aug 14, 21:03
Confused on Believers In The Ruins: “main will one day have to admit to the undeniable logic of every ANGLO subhuman removed en-masse from the blessed…” Aug 14, 21:02
agentx on Believers In The Ruins: ““The former University of Cambridge professor at the centre of a plagiarism row has been found dead. Jason Arday was…” Aug 14, 20:57
sam on Believers In The Ruins: “It’s a reply to your post- “Aidan says: 14 August, 2026 at 11:09 am This was considered by the UN…” Aug 14, 20:53
sam on Believers In The Ruins: “Turabdin, Below you see the reply from Wee Johnny Main. It is a good example of coat trailing, which is…” Aug 14, 20:41
Southernbystander on Believers In The Ruins: “Totally inventing a scenario and then a reaction to it by the person you want to attack, then castigating him…” Aug 14, 20:32
sam on Believers In The Ruins: “I’m very pleased to find my posts annoy you even though that is not my intention, not least because I…” Aug 14, 20:27
sam on Believers In The Ruins: “Wee johnny Main, Your posts are also repetitively boring, always banging on about immigrants. Scotland has always had immigrants. “Using…” Aug 14, 20:23
Aidan on Believers In The Ruins: “Oh interesting! What UN bodies specifically are taking what action?” Aug 14, 20:22
sam on Believers In The Ruins: “Is “1954” a typo error? Why would the UN be making such a decision then?” Aug 14, 20:03
Xaracen on Believers In The Ruins: “The decision was wrong, because the UK government lied. The UN is in the process of waking up to that…” Aug 14, 19:50
TURABDIN on Believers In The Ruins: “it is not as if the one at westminster is any better, ppe, hs2,to cite but two cases of epic…” Aug 14, 18:16
TURABDIN on Believers In The Ruins: “IN THE LIGHT of houses burning, vide Daily Dogpile, a wild thought anent the puny temporary prohibition on nasty portable…” Aug 14, 18:04
Alf Baird on Believers In The Ruins: ““none, of the things delegated to the Scottish Govt in the past decade or more has been a success” True,…” Aug 14, 17:09
Wally Jumblatt on Believers In The Ruins: “I really don’t care if in 1632 or quarter to eight some treaty or law was passed. Since don’t have…” Aug 14, 14:49
Hatey McHateface on Believers In The Ruins: ““Scotland absorbed, annexed, incorporated is actually how the world sees it and many English do also” Aye, TURABDIN, just like…” Aug 14, 14:11
Captain Caveman on Anatomy Of A Grift: ““Plus any attempt to discuss a subject btl just gets relentless trolling from obvious disruptors to the point few can…” Aug 14, 13:46
Captain Caveman on Anatomy Of A Grift: ““trannyism is deadly boring” Yeah, it’s only “deadly boring” if you don’t have a wife, daughters, granddaughters, dear female friends;…” Aug 14, 13:41
TURABDIN on Believers In The Ruins: “Scotland absorbed, annexed, incorporated is actually how the world sees it and many English do also. A face to face…” Aug 14, 13:40
Hatey McHateface on Anatomy Of A Grift: “As always, it needs to be pointed out that the alternative to the NHS needn’t be an “American style” system.…” Aug 14, 13:25
Confused on Believers In The Ruins: “that was an odd segue into footy about halfway; don’t knock it, it gives joy to many people www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrgJ_-stYHw anyway,…” Aug 14, 12:51
Confused on Anatomy Of A Grift: “trannyism is deadly boring and only becomes interesting once you realise what it is all connected to; it is not…” Aug 14, 12:47
