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Back home 72

Posted on July 11, 2018 by

Scotia episode 2, because posting anything about the World Cup feels too mean.

This might as well be the news 112

Posted on July 11, 2018 by

Too Wee Too 28

Posted on July 11, 2018 by

Second in a series.

Dark news 1

Posted on July 05, 2018 by

If you don’t want to know the TRUTH 16

Posted on June 27, 2018 by

…look away now.

Being our own media, part 26 12

Posted on June 25, 2018 by

Michael Gray and Robert Somynne’s Scotia Live, episode 1:

The Day Before Tomorrow Today 31

Posted on June 20, 2018 by

They’re back to save us all.

Wait, correction, that should read: they’re back – God save us all.

News shafted 169

Posted on June 14, 2018 by

Yesterday was quite an eventful day, so it’s moderately possible you may have missed the alarming news that some shady Mafia-backed hedge fund or such has apparently funded these irresponsible and morally-suspect chancers (last seen shilling on air for literally Vladimir Putin and BBC Scotland, in that order) to produce an all-new series of scurrilous and dubious fact-grubbing for some inexplicable reason.

We have alerted the appropriate authorities. For safety, remain in your homes.

Today In Parliament 413

Posted on June 13, 2018 by

What happened at PMQs this afternoon:

As you can see, the Speaker offers Ian Blackford MP, who was protesting about last night’s silencing of Scottish MPs, a choice of when to hold a vote under Parliamentary standing orders, but then improperly refuses his choice and orders Blackford from the chamber, at which point the rest of the SNP’s MPs followed him.

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The Too Wee Club Redux 157

Posted on May 30, 2018 by

Returning to a theme.

(Original series here.)

Ruth Davidson Lie Watch 376

Posted on May 26, 2018 by

So it appears that Ruth Davidson has been lying again.

And as is so often the case, the lie is easy to expose.

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The debut 198

Posted on May 20, 2018 by

To the best of our recollection, today’s Sunday Politics Scotland was the first time a representative from this site has ever been invited onto a BBC Scotland TV show to discuss the affairs of the day since Wings was founded back in 2011. So we thought we better capture it for posterity in case it’s another seven years until the next one.

The bits that didn’t make it to air are below.

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