The charity LGBT Youth Scotland is currently the subject of a live police investigation over its involvement in a second major child-abuse scandal in little over a decade.
So you’d expect Police Scotland to be taking that pretty seriously, right?
Wings Over Scotland has been monitoring the BBC’s coverage of Scottish politics for over 11 years now, readers, and other than The Nick Robinson Incident we’re honestly struggling to remember seeing anything worse than this.
The Corporation’s “coverage” of Ash Regan’s campaign launch for the SNP leadership election ran for roughly seven minutes. And we suppose we should be grateful that it did at one point feature a brief, incidental cameo appearance from Ash Regan.
Below are two news reports from the Scottish Sun this week:
Both of the people arrested were male-bodied individuals who identify as women. As far as we’re aware, neither of them has a Gender Recognition Certificate. They are both the same sex, biologically and legally, and both describe themselves as female.
Yet in giving statements about their respective arrests, Police Scotland called one of them a man and one of them a woman. And we’re having no luck finding out why.
On January 22nd the violent, abusive transgender activist Jack Douglas, who now uses the name Beth and the Twitter username “pickle_bee” (slang for “somebody who likes dick”), threatened that feminist campaigner Kellie-Jay Keen’s imminent “Standing For Women” event in Glasgow was going to be disrupted by the “furry” community, who happen to be hosting a gathering at the Crowne Plaza that same weekend.
“Why? What possible grudge could furries have against women?”, a friend giggled, as I related this news to her. But to answer that we have to know who these people are.
The SNP are a flailing shambles of incompetence, under a leader fast losing her iron grip on her own party as they watch her turning it into a laughing stock with growing horror. More and more disquiet reaches our ears from within her increasingly leaky and nervous Parliamentary groups. Who will be the first to tie their courage to a flagpole and make the move to mutiny? We can only wait and see.
Because as someone else on Twitter mocked, what’s actually laughable is the idea that criminals would never engage in any kind of deception in order to commit crimes, and that someone like Peter Tatchell would be so idiotic as to suggest such a thing.
agent x on The Jokers: “I never take notice of opinion polls – maybe they should not be given prominence in future on here?” Jun 6, 16:26
Chris Downie on The Jokers: “The biggest failure of the SNP since 2015, apart from the obvious one – not delivering independence – is allowing…” Jun 6, 16:14
Big Jock on The Jokers: “There are still the delusional hordes musing on other sites. That Swinney the Grim Reaper will save the SNP. The…” Jun 6, 16:06
TURABDIN on The Jokers: “THE JOKE’S ON US ALL, given that the real power on the planet is in the hands of unaccountable sociopathic…” Jun 6, 16:04
Jontoscot21 on The Jokers: “Davy was a throwback from Labour’s usual Lego haircut wimmin or bum fluff say boy teachers. He was actually more…” Jun 6, 15:54
Campbell Clansman on The Jokers: “Unionist parties 2-1 over (nominally) Indy parties is in line with the national polls. This aspect of the Hamilton result…” Jun 6, 13:57
Rev. Stuart Campbell on The Jokers: ““I posted yesterday (although my comment seems to have failed to pass moderation)” You’ve changed your email so you were…” Jun 6, 13:08
David on The Jokers: “The migrants invading Britain is upsetting to so many working class men wanting housing but can’t get on the ladder.…” Jun 6, 12:38
David on The Jokers: “Katy Louden voted against funding for Hamilton town centre! She got what she deserved – a big massive rejection from…” Jun 6, 12:29
Daniel Souter on The Jokers: “The voters in Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse won’t be worried much about it, because when this Labour “pig with a…” Jun 6, 12:23
Skip_NC on The Jokers: “Effijy, I think this character is going to set a world record for points of order. “Eh, um Presiding Officer,…” Jun 6, 12:14
Heather McLean on The Jokers: “It wouldn’t matter which of the current crop of SNP MSPs they put in his place they are all toxic…” Jun 6, 11:40
Captain Caveman on The Jokers: “The guy thinks he’s Shakespeare.” Jun 6, 11:22
Rev. Stuart Campbell on The Jokers: “Alba can’t BUY press coverage since electing a non-MSP as leader. They really needed the exposure.” Jun 6, 11:20
Kelpie on The Jokers: “I posted yesterday (although my comment seems to have failed to pass moderation) that while the SNP may have been…” Jun 6, 11:17
Politically Homeless on The Jokers: “Well what a surprise. It turns out the majority of voters don’t care about anything political, indeed, not least “wanging…” Jun 6, 11:11
Hatey McHateface on The Jokers: “@Northcode says: 6 June, 2025 at 10:34 am Vote for Scotland – stay at home. Work for Scotland – stay…” Jun 6, 10:52
Allison on The Jokers: “It’s a by-election – different to a full election – with media attention for a small party who desperately need…” Jun 6, 10:45
Ronnie on The Jokers: “In the name of God, Swinney, just go.” Jun 6, 10:37
Northcode on The Jokers: “The Colonial News (edited in London – capital of the ’empire’) Latest news from our Scotland colony: Hooray! The Colonials…” Jun 6, 10:34
Rev. Stuart Campbell on The Jokers: “It’s Larkhall ffs.” Jun 6, 10:30
desimond on The Jokers: “Look forward to the “Well its disappointing but lets not forget…” pish from Swinney. How long before Stephen Flynn has…” Jun 6, 09:56
agent x on The Jokers: “Labour wins the only poll that matters. Well done.” Jun 6, 09:53
Tony Little on The Jokers: “Whether anyone likes it or not, an absentee voter is still a vote – it’s a vote to abdicate the…” Jun 6, 09:51
Sally Hughes on The Jokers: “The voters have chosen… better the useless f..k wit you know, than a new one. The results for Reform will…” Jun 6, 09:39
June on The Jokers: “Both ALBA leadership candidates promised to reverse Salmond’s election strategy for 2026. Salmond would have stood candidates in constituencies. Repeating…” Jun 6, 09:35
Antoine Roquentin on The Jokers: “Masochism is hardly a new phenomenon amongst the Scottish electorate.” Jun 6, 09:26
Captain Caveman on The Jokers: “The BBC can hardly contain their glee… I still can’t quite believe this was a by-election FFS. What an utterly…” Jun 6, 09:21
Doug on The Jokers: “Expect the same result next year if Swinney remains FM.” Jun 6, 09:08
Neutral Observer on The Jokers: ““It’s going to take a while to unpick quite what the heck just happened, but one stat did jump out…” Jun 6, 09:07