Thanks to the dedication of our legal team in working over the Easter holiday, Wings has unexpectedly received the formal Opinion of legal counsel (hereafter called “the Opinion”, capitalised to avoid confusion with the ordinary use of the word in the article) with regard to the standing of the site in the light of the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act 2021, which comes into force tomorrow.
We publish the Opinion below, partly to assist those worried about the Act’s impact on them but unable to afford their own legal advice.
But we also do so to place Police Scotland on notice that anything published by Wings Over Scotland is done in the light of the greatest possible care having been taken to ensure compliance with the law, and that in such a context any future attempt/s to improperly interfere with our rights of free expression under Article 10 of the European Convention On Human Rights (ECHR) will be viewed with regard to pursuing the maximum available recourse for wrongful restriction of our lawful activities.
We have both funds and the will to pursue such action.
The video below, which we just found today, is taken from a promo by the American news channel CNN in 2017. It’s deeply ironic now, because CNN has been thoroughly captured by gender ideology. But it’s the reason Wings Over Scotland won’t change what or how we write, even if it means we have to shut our doors.
The truth is everything. Non-negotiable. No matter what. It’s as simple as that.
He’s the cuddly, lovable character all of Scotland’s talking about, but what do we really know about the Hate Monster? Where did he come from? What’s his backstory? Well, the diligent research team at Wings have been hard at work, and we’re thrilled to bring you this rare archive footage of not one but BOTH of his parents.
Both were in the arts. Here’s his mum, Ruda (originally from Eastern Europe, escaping to the West before the Iron Curtain came down) starring in a 1952 Bugs Bunny short:
And this is his dad, in one of several collaborations with the Scooby Doo team in 1976 under his former wrestling persona of The 10,000-Volt Ghost:
Our boy was born for the stage. No wonder he’s made such an impact.
Everyone’s having a lot of fun with the farcical Hate Crime Act that will finally come into operation in Scotland in just a couple of weeks’ time, fittingly on April Fools’ Day.
Earlier today I happened to pop into to a ZX Spectrum forum I used to frequent to look for a bit of info about an obscure old game, and my eye was caught by a post there.
It regarded an article called “20 Indie Games That You Could Beat in the Time It Would Take You to Watch That Hbomberguy Video”, which is about an almost four-hour-long YouTube video that gamer types are currently talking about on social media, relating to plagiarism by someone or other, but which I’m not going to bother watching or linking to because (a) it’s by a monstrous arsehole, (b) it sounds really really boring and (c) it’s almost four hours long.
Like the forum poster I was disappointed that the headline didn’t mean you could beat ALL of those 20 games in less than the video’s 3h 51m 09s running time, but merely that you could beat any ONE of them, which didn’t seem much of a fun fact.
But it did seem like a bit of a challenge, so to liven up my afternoon while I listened to some lawyers also droning on tediously for hours I thought I’d try to find out how many old Speccy games you could complete, one after the other, in the same timespan.
Our apologies for the lack of recent activity here, readers, but there’s just been nothing happening worth talking about. Meanwhile, here’s some more music.
This really is grim, folks. Remember the days when there had to be overflow rooms for the leader’s speech at the SNP conference, in venues holding thousands? Now they can’t come close to filling 750 seats in a 2000-seat arena.
The reception afforded to Sturgeon yesterday, who left the party in the pile of wreckage that the hapless Yousaf is still trying to stumble through, was a symptom of desperate people clinging forlornly to the shadow of better times, like an abandoned dog seeking the last bits of warmth and scent from its owner’s chair.
But those days are gone, never to return. This is the barren, foreboding autumn of the SNP, the cold ground thickly carpeted in the lifeless, crumbling and silent remains of lost members fallen from branches.
100%Yes on The Final Robbery: “Why is there no mention of the 600k referendum fund?” May 25, 20:45
100%Yes on The Final Robbery: “I’ll vote for Reform to stop the SNP.” May 25, 20:42
Geri on The Final Robbery: “Things could be worse. It’s not like they sold honours, took cash for questions, sold blow jobs in the foreign…” May 25, 20:40
100%Yes on The Final Robbery: “Robin is angry and why not everyone has devoted their lives to the SNP and Independence. I’d have a read…” May 25, 20:21
Skip_NC on The Final Robbery: “Ouch. That is a good read and impossible to argue against. Thanks for mentioning it.” May 25, 20:15
LondonScot on The Final Robbery: “PM was originally charged with stealing £460K. He admitted to £400K today. I recall that he generously ‘lent’ the party…” May 25, 19:22
Socrates MacSporran on The Final Robbery: “Tonight, in one of the gentlemen’s clubs in St James’ London, Mainwaring, Cholmondley-Warner, Carruthers, St John Smythe and the other…” May 25, 19:18
Dan on The Final Robbery: “A Reform supporter living in England would come out with such simplistic shite though… It’s a pity so many Scots…” May 25, 18:45
Mark Beggan on The Final Robbery: “Scotland is now in the big league of corrupt one party states.” May 25, 18:20
Run The Border on The Final Robbery: “<<>> I’m a soft-core yoon. I disagree with that. The UK is going bankrupt, the Labour government can’t organise a…” May 25, 18:19
twathater on The Final Robbery: “The fact that the wee ugly inside and out poisoned dwarf is still parading about with her lesbian train, unconcerned…” May 25, 18:05
Skip_NC on The Final Robbery: “The 400,000 Murrell admitted to thieving is almost certainly part of the 600,000. The rest of it was probably spent…” May 25, 18:04
100%Yes on The Final Robbery: “There lies the problem, who do you trust? I really don’t like SF but some how I reckon if he…” May 25, 17:52
David Ferguson on The Final Robbery: ““Since despite this strident yet self-evident lie Beattie was released without charge, we must assume that he is innocent of…” May 25, 17:49
Andy Wiltshire on The Final Robbery: “Hey Rev, has anyone (except on here) given you any credit at all over this? I certainly haven’t seen any.” May 25, 17:46
duncanio on The Final Robbery: “You are correct, my oversight. The other two were arrested and then released without charge. But I think my point,…” May 25, 17:46
James Barr Gardner on The Final Robbery: “Michael Paterson, 59, pled guilty at the High Court in Edinburgh of embezzling funds of £1,087,444.47. from Aberdeen City Council…” May 25, 17:45
Young Lochinvar on The Final Robbery: “You would think so. Plus the video of her telling people not to question the finances; is that not effectively…” May 25, 17:35
Minceheid on The Final Robbery: “The only problem with replacing Swinney is, who do you install in his place? It’s not as if there’s a…” May 25, 17:22
Mark Beggan on The Final Robbery: “If only the Muppets had been investigated as much as Mr Farage. This would never have happened. This would never…” May 25, 17:07
Mark Beggan on The Final Robbery: “Ok @Fakename. Never by a second hand car.” May 25, 17:05
100%Yes on The Final Robbery: “Joanna Cherry has called for John Swinney to be replaced as Scotland’s First Minister and leader of the SNP. Swinney…” May 25, 17:04
Gordy on The Final Robbery: “Perhaps he fancies being bummed senseless in the showers in the bar L” May 25, 16:57
agentx on The Final Robbery: ““Lynsey Bews BBC Scotland political correspondent The list of items bought by Murrell also includes DVDs of the first few…” May 25, 16:50
sam on The Final Robbery: “Yes, fat finger. He began embezzling in August 2010, as far as the charges made show,. I was curious that…” May 25, 16:50
robertkknight on The Final Robbery: “And….. Rev Stu… you’re a credit to your profession, unlike so many lazy barstewards whose dead tree scrolls aren’t worth…” May 25, 16:50
100%Yes on The Final Robbery: “Both my wife and I regularly donated to SNP and Indyref2.” May 25, 16:49
Effijy on The Final Robbery: “The marital home must be worth about £450,000 so he would get half of the equity. If the mobile home…” May 25, 16:48
Ex President Xiden on The Final Robbery: “Nicola Sturgeon, John Swinney, Colin Beattie, Kirsten Oswald, Murray Foote, David Leask, Tom Gordon, Mike Russell, Callum Steele, Pete Wishart,…” May 25, 16:46
Alf Baird on The Final Robbery: “Well, postcolonial theory (Fanon) warns us that a dominant national party elite that has been ‘co-opted by colonialism’ quickly opts…” May 25, 16:46
