We think the lads at The Scotsman might have gotten a bit confused and/or carried away when it came to putting the clocks forward at the weekend. At 6am on Sunday morning they tweeted this:
But the link was a 404. We checked the print edition of Scotland On Sunday but there was nothing there either. Finally, though, the article has shown up in today’s paper and on the website, and to be honest with you, readers, we still think it must be some sort of mistake, because it’s two days early for April 1st.
It seems that it’s fine to farm important judgments out to mysterious shadowy figures who just make important chunks of them up out of thin air, and then issue them in your own name. Back in your boxes, plebs.
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.
Because, y’know, you can call us old-fashioned purists or sticklers or whatever if you like, but government ministers probably shouldn’t openly lie in prepared statements to the High Court in order to pervert the course of justice.
We thought we should keep track of all the issues with the Peggie tribunal judgment, now that Sandie Peggie has officially announced her intention to appeal it.
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.)
Disgraced ex-policeman and notorious vexatious serial complainant Lynsay Watson is having quite the meltdown on the groomer-and-paedophile haven Bluesky tonight.
To be honest, we’re mainly putting these here so you don’t have to keep looking at that picture of Alan Cumming.
But they also show what you can achieve, whether in football or politics, if you actually attack rather than being content to endlessly shuttle it all sideways and backwards until you get beaten without even taking a shot.
diabloandco on The quality of mercy: “If any of you know how to link the song Scotland the Free , sung by Eden Power to this…” Apr 9, 08:08
Aidan on The quality of mercy: “You addressed the comment to me but I’ve no idea what it’s trying to say sorry.” Apr 9, 06:12
Mark Beggan on The quality of mercy: “If no-one else is going to say it then I will. Thankyou Police Scotland for protecting the Scottish people from…” Apr 9, 00:33
Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh on The quality of mercy: “A lovely poignant 16th Century Scottish song — REMEMBER ME MY DEIR (Amarcord – Harmonia Mundi) https://gobha-uisge.blogspot.com/2021/05/remember-me-my-deir-scottish-16th.html” Apr 8, 21:09
Geri on The quality of mercy: ““Best to await the outcome of their performance before making assumptions.” Best to just have a referendum eh? Y’know, what…” Apr 8, 20:52
Geri on The quality of mercy: “Cave dweller “The usual disingenuous, ill informed drivel from you.” Google AI – dickhead. Why don’t you go get a…” Apr 8, 20:39
Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh on The quality of mercy: “MUSICK FYNE: JAMES IV, ROBERT CARVER « Thirteen years into the sixteenth century, King James, the fourth Stewart of that…” Apr 8, 20:20
Northcode on The quality of mercy: ““…the people are finally beginning to understand their colonial ‘condition’.” Frantz Fanon said “Once a people realize they have been…” Apr 8, 20:10
James on The quality of mercy: “YL – Excellent stuff. Certainly the French assumed the Alliance was still in place, with English ships being charged port…” Apr 8, 19:53
Young Lochinvar on The quality of mercy: “%er I don’t actually think the National comic and BIS have really that much influence on the majority ie Joe…” Apr 8, 19:13
Young Lochinvar on The quality of mercy: “C Meant to respond, aye, the auld alliance had its ups and downs but it was big French aid to…” Apr 8, 18:48
100%Yes on The quality of mercy: “We have recent polls suggesting that the SNP is going to get a outright majority or the SNP is going…” Apr 8, 18:44
Bilbo on The quality of mercy: “Cynicus says: 8 April, 2026 at 10:43 am TACO Trump is employing Madman theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madman_theory The problem is how does…” Apr 8, 18:29
agentx on The quality of mercy: “Alf Baird says:”Hence the Alliance to Liberate Scotland Party standing at this election means the people are finally beginning to…” Apr 8, 17:43
Mark Beggan on The quality of mercy: “The very same system that allows the worst in our society to sneak in and spread their poison. Progressives are…” Apr 8, 17:21
Young Lochinvar on The quality of mercy: “C Amen to that! However even though they found Dick da Turds corpse in a Leicester municipal car park, they…” Apr 8, 17:17
Aidan on The quality of mercy: “When did this recession occur which knocked 30% off the value of the Scottish economy to give a $200bn dollar…” Apr 8, 17:00
Alf Baird on The quality of mercy: “Three hunner year o colonial oppression does result in a certain pathology, Sven, whereby theday almost half o Scots still…” Apr 8, 16:25
Alf Baird on The quality of mercy: ““Ireland (no oil), Norway (oil), Switzerland (banking) have GDPs in the range of 600-800B USD. Ours is 200B USD. Liechtenstein…” Apr 8, 16:16
James on The quality of mercy: “The water shortage headline reads “Britain” then the article reads “England”. Funny that, eh? Oh, and aren’t house Yoons Wilma…” Apr 8, 15:58
Cynicus on The quality of mercy: “TURABDIN says: 6 April, 2026 at 4:56 pm From WIKI:?«The earliest use of the term appears in 1507, when King…” Apr 8, 15:18
Northcode on The quality of mercy: “Due to the proliferation of mindless, illiterate and ill-informed pish scribbled doun in this place by colonialists (unionists if preferred……” Apr 8, 14:52
Sven on The quality of mercy: “Mark Beggan @ 14.11. Mot a country of deranged morons … more a devolved administration of deranged morons elected under…” Apr 8, 14:29
Northcode on The quality of mercy: “Nae ither folk bar the Scots thersels hae the nous, the knawledge or the experiens o mony generaciouns, tae unnerstaun…” Apr 8, 14:14
Confused on The quality of mercy: “Reality check time. The only relevant benchmark for Scotland’s ECONOMIC POTENTIAL is with our small nation peers, most of whom…” Apr 8, 14:12
Mark Beggan on The quality of mercy: “Never mind the oil. The world sees Scotland as a Lady Boy. A country of very confused, weak and deranged…” Apr 8, 14:11
Confused on The quality of mercy: “they just won’t give it a fucking rest, will they – frog face weighing in https://archive.ph/cHiZ4 – but, but -…” Apr 8, 14:09
Aidan on The quality of mercy: “Well if it’s all been done before, why are you so utterly clueless about it and posting (in that last…” Apr 8, 13:38
Dan on The quality of mercy: “Ooh, an lse report… oh aye, this had been done to death long before Johnny come lately Aidan turned up.…” Apr 8, 13:11
Aidan on The quality of mercy: “Do you have a link to those figures “James”, since I can’t find them anywhere. What I can find is…” Apr 8, 12:52
