As the six-year fight for justice for Alex Salmond continues, we thought you might like to see this clip from this morning’s Mike Graham Show, interviewing Paul McManus, the businessman and drummer in Glasgow rock band Gun who’s stepped up to fund the Salmond family’s case against the Scottish Government despite disagreeing with much of what Alex stood for politically.
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.
The first and most important thing to note about yesterday’s judgment in the Sandie Peggie tribunal is that it’s a very big victory. The tribunal found that Sandie Peggie was gravely and heinously harassed by her employer through no fault of her own, and she’ll be entitled to substantial compensation as a result.
It also ruled, repeatedly and unequivocally, that Dr “Beth” Upton (who’s referred to in the judgment as “the second respondent”) is a man.
The motion completely ignored both the findings of the Cass Review and the Supreme Court judgment in For Women Scotland, but not a single MSP spoke in opposition to it. (Jenni Minto, the Minister For Public Health And Women’s Health, actually broke down in tears at the end because she wasn’t managing to get children’s futures permanently destroyed with sufficient urgency, mainly because the UK Parliament took legislation out of Holyrood’s hands to protect them.)
It’s really very hard to overstate what mendacious, duplicitous shite this is.
It did its job, though. As expected, the SNP conference comprehensively voted down the rebel amendments to Swinney’s motion on independence “strategy” and backed his grand plan of winning a majority, begging Keir Starmer for a second referendum – just like Nicola Sturgeon and Humza Yousaf had done before him with Theresa May, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak – and then scuttling obediently away with his tail between his legs when Starmer told him to get lost.
It’d be quite hard to find an image that more completely summed up the wretched state of the SNP in 2025 than this one. Look at that tiny handful of miserable faces, sitting dejectedly around a near-empty function room. It’s so bleak Mike Leigh could make an entire movie out of it.
And we know what you’re thinking – that we sat through some internet livestream to find the most pitiful-looking freezeframe imaginable to show them in a bad light. But nope. Kevin Stewart MSP posted this cheery snapshot of his own free will on Twitter on Sunday morning, presumably in the hope of boosting party morale in some way.
But this extract from an interview to be aired on ITV tonight is actually interesting.
In it, Sturgeon doggedly continues to refuse to use male pronouns for multiple rapist Adam “Isla Bryson” Graham, despite admitting that he IS male, instead calling him “they”. But it was the bit before that that raised our eyebrows.
A little over two years ago, three SNP MSPs contested the leadership of the party in the wake of the sudden resignation of Nicola Sturgeon. All were full of grand plans and dreams for the future of the party, the nation and the independence movement.
None of the three is leader now, and in nine months’ time none of them will be SNP MSPs. Indeed, it’s overwhelmingly likely that none will be an MSP at all.
And that, readers, is not a sign of a party – or indeed a Parliament – in good health.
Geri on Scotland’s Most Frightened: “Cause it’s all about the “networking” After a good rodgering with each other it’s ontae the bus to go crack…” Mar 9, 22:12
Geri on Scotland’s Most Frightened: “Iran has a constitution. Something you eejits never do understand, must be cause you don’t have one of your own.…” Mar 9, 21:51
Alf Baird on Scotland’s Most Frightened: “Aye Cynicus, yer richt, tho rural Scotland differed fae the cities wi fermers laddies addin thair wecht an muscle tae…” Mar 9, 21:44
Mark Beggan on Scotland’s Most Frightened: “Well it started like a rabid dog chained to a traffic cone, and the less said about the middle the…” Mar 9, 20:59
Marie on Scotland’s Most Frightened: “Yes Confused- End Times, Rapture, Armageddon, Second Coming – people like Hegseth are batshit crazy and a danger to us…” Mar 9, 20:58
Northcode on Scotland’s Most Frightened: “Well, having perused all the comments posted here today I think I can say that us Scottish liberation seeking Scots…” Mar 9, 20:50
Dunx on Scotland’s Most Frightened: ““No need to resort to type with yer banal childish insults.” Irony isn’t really your strong point.” Mar 9, 20:49
Aidan on Scotland’s Most Frightened: “Far be it from me to be content, although I am realistic about the fact that posting on wings isn’t…” Mar 9, 20:27
Cynicus on Scotland’s Most Frightened: “Alf, did you forget the late, great commentator Bill McLaren? He wis a Borderer wi a guid Scots tung in…” Mar 9, 20:24
Dan on Scotland’s Most Frightened: “@ Aidan at 7.45 pm Very droll ya radge. I guess you’re content with the way things are playing out…” Mar 9, 20:08
Alf Baird on Scotland’s Most Frightened: “To add, in relation to Northcode’s correct use of the Scots word ‘dummie’, which refers to in English ‘a dumb…” Mar 9, 19:54
Hatey McHateface on Scotland’s Most Frightened: “Ah, c’moan noo, Alf. Ye were jist getting interesting. Fits Scots fer corset? BTW, surely nae True Scot drinks pints?…” Mar 9, 19:52
Aidan on Scotland’s Most Frightened: “Nice to see you again Dan, hope you’ve been well. Was the moderated post you moaning about something by any…” Mar 9, 19:44
Hatey McHateface on Scotland’s Most Frightened: “@Northy I bought a 2026 calendar and a 2026 desk diary. In December 2025, at full price. Not at the…” Mar 9, 19:36
Alf Baird on Scotland’s Most Frightened: “The Anglo dominated and assimilated colonial mindset certainly ‘boggles’ with illusions of cultural superiority, as Hatey ower Scotland aye attempts…” Mar 9, 19:33
Hatey McHateface on Scotland’s Most Frightened: “Turns out that in a country of over 90 million, the best man for the top job just happens to…” Mar 9, 18:50
Dan on Scotland’s Most Frightened: “Hatey McHateface says: at 6:03 pm “And continue to act astonished that because most people think your borderline illiterate, with…” Mar 9, 18:31
Hatey McHateface on Scotland’s Most Frightened: “Dead man stooping more like. He’ll be down in a tunnel like the ham ass scum. If the surveillance drones…” Mar 9, 18:26
Hatey McHateface on Scotland’s Most Frightened: “It’s the coming of the men in white coats you need to be worrying about. Anybody make it to the…” Mar 9, 18:20
Sven on Scotland’s Most Frightened: “President Trump is reported to have offered the Iranian Women’s Team political asylum in the US, Mark, so things may…” Mar 9, 18:16
Hatey McHateface on Scotland’s Most Frightened: “Twinned with “Scots For Dummies”, Alf. Who knew that the Scots for zombie is zombie, the Scots for tree is…” Mar 9, 18:11
Hatey McHateface on Scotland’s Most Frightened: ““Scotland will have expressed it’s will” Ah. I see the problem right there, Geri. I guess that no matter how…” Mar 9, 18:03
Confused on Scotland’s Most Frightened: “My favourite austrian painters are egon schiele and gustav klimt, but this guy has potential www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmjrfXO0mdk art can be a…” Mar 9, 17:56
Mark Beggan on Scotland’s Most Frightened: “New Iranian leader is now declared a ‘living martyr’. How’s that for word play! Or in other words a dead…” Mar 9, 17:56
Alf Baird on Scotland’s Most Frightened: ““In every general election since 2015 (bar the last one) there has been a majority of (supposedly) pro-independence MP’s returned…” Mar 9, 17:09
Aidan on Scotland’s Most Frightened: “So we are back where we started then aren’t we. Can you provide any legal authority to back up this…” Mar 9, 16:45
Geri on Scotland’s Most Frightened: “Cause Alex asked the electorate two separate questions. #SNP1 – to govern. #SNP2 – to remain as FM. New SNP…” Mar 9, 16:32
Geri on Scotland’s Most Frightened: “Areswipe Learn to read.. What I said “Only Westminster is the recognised seat of power. They need to concentrate on…” Mar 9, 16:26
agentx on Scotland’s Most Frightened: “Alf Baird says: “This also explains why our oppressor is keen to ensure the SNP never quite wins a majority…” Mar 9, 16:20
Geri on Scotland’s Most Frightened: “They’re probably trying to audition as some of those $7k a post influencers to promote BS & failing miserably.” Mar 9, 16:02
