Because, for startlingly obvious reasons, even the SNP hasn’t had the brass neck to do a general fundraiser for this election, with the police’s inquiries still going on into the whereabouts of the cash from their last big appeals.
But in fact the party has managed to wring over £100,000 from the most gullible of its remaining supporters in the days since the election was announced. It’s just been a bit more subtle about it.
Last week’s controversy around the Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre put the spotlight on the need for single-sex services to protect vulnerable women, but it’s very far from the only example of how Scottish women are being let down in this regard by both the Scottish Government and civic organisations.
The homelessness system in Scotland has collapsed. Emergency accommodation is dangerous, sub-standard, and overcrowded. There has been an epidemic of deaths in hotels and B&Bs in recent years.
As a writer, feminist and literary events organiser in Scotland, I’m regularly sent links to information someone thinks might be of interest to me. This week it was a document commissioned by one of Scotland’s leading and most powerful publicly-funded literary organisations, Literature Alliance Scotland (LAS).
Nobody, of course, objects to transgender writers being included or supported, but the content of the guidance raises several extremely serious and concerning issues.
Normally in cases like these, there’s an instant and concerted attempt to rubbish the judgement, both from amateurs and activist lawyers like Robin Moira “Barry” White, Jolyon Maugham, and the anonymous “Pissed Off Lawyer” tweeting as @legaltweetz. They’ll issue spurious “analyses” dismissing the findings with jargon terms like “obiter”, and either question their correctness or attempt to minimise their significance.
For some reason that didn’t happen this time. The hyper-antagonist online trans army has very conspicuously failed to rush to the defence of ERCC CEO Mridul Wadhwa, perhaps because Judge Ian McFatridge’s conclusions were so relentlessly, brutally and comprehensively excoriating of Wadhwa’s appalling behaviour that no amount of spin or disingenuity could disguise it.
But then, on white charger and with papoose, enter a hero.
Mridul Wadhwa, a man with whom Wings readers have been familiar for some years, was found by the tribunal judge to have been “the invisible hand behind everything that had taken place” as Roz Adams, a conscientious, caring and highly professional woman with a long history in the sector, was systematically and methodically hounded out of her job for holding, privately and sensitively, the belief that biological sex is real.
We watched Question Time last night for the first time in about nine years, and this comment from SNP Westminster leader Stephen Flynn raised an eyebrow.
Because we couldn’t remember ANY times that Flynn had publicly expressed any problems with the Scottish Greens during their governing alliance.
James Gardner on Eyes Full Of Beams: “1950’s genocide of the Kikuyu, that was brushed under the carpet by the Brit State.” Jan 10, 13:50
PacMan on Eyes Full Of Beams: “The right always accuses the left of hating the rich and the left’s only interest in the poor is just…” Jan 10, 13:50
Rab Dickson on Eyes Full Of Beams: “I have listened to several long interviews of Orban conducted by a less than sympathetic foreign media. I have found…” Jan 10, 13:49
Mark Beggan on Eyes Full Of Beams: “Glasgow City Council are in secret talks with a secret donor giving a secret amount of money. Don’t tell anyone…” Jan 10, 13:39
Derek Thomson on Safeguarding Is Not Right-Wing: “That’s absolutely right – 83% of child sex accused are White British.” Jan 10, 13:33
James Gardner on Eyes Full Of Beams: “Parasites eventually kill their host !” Jan 10, 13:33
Rev. Stuart Campbell on Dreaming Of Perfection: ““If people are free, then they are (and should be) free to form political parties if they like.” “If people…” Jan 10, 13:29
Rev. Stuart Campbell on Eyes Full Of Beams: ““MMC Brussels are widely regarded as promoting the agenda of Orbain overseas and funded by him and associates and have…” Jan 10, 13:25
Confused on Eyes Full Of Beams: “before Labour got in I wrote a post about their “tax plans” in response to the scaremongering of the telegraph;…” Jan 10, 13:13
Lorna Campbell on Eyes Full Of Beams: “I think that this is what the Rev is getting at, Hatey, and it is certainly how I understand it,…” Jan 10, 13:02
Vivian O’Blivion on Eyes Full Of Beams: “I agree with George Ferguson above. When it comes to an investigation of Dark Money influence on Scottish politics, this…” Jan 10, 12:58
Confused on Eyes Full Of Beams: “he has been routinely interfering in the social policy of other nations, openly, for decades for what he believes are…” Jan 10, 12:58
willie on Eyes Full Of Beams: “Gaza, is a disaster Rev Stu. We know that, or least of us do. But it is not the only…” Jan 10, 12:57
Lorna Campbell on Eyes Full Of Beams: “I’d accept that when it’s poverty, not when it’s sexual demands. Allowing in huge numbers of young, unmarried men has…” Jan 10, 12:49
tog on Eyes Full Of Beams: “MMC Brussels are widely regarded as promoting the agenda of Orbain overseas and funded by him and associates and have…” Jan 10, 12:48
Mark Beggan on Eyes Full Of Beams: “How many homeless people will die tonight.” Jan 10, 12:47
Ali on Eyes Full Of Beams: “Allah be praised, other deities are available.” Jan 10, 12:35
gregor on Eyes Full Of Beams: “BBC: UK security officials monitor Elon Musk’s posts: “UK officials are monitoring social media posts by Elon Musk and others…” Jan 10, 12:15
Rev. Stuart Campbell on Eyes Full Of Beams: “Several people have now been placed on pre-moderation for filter evasion. You were warned. Expect a very considerable delay in…” Jan 10, 12:11
gregor on Safeguarding Is Not Right-Wing: “Eric Clapton: Pilgrim: My Father’s Eyes: “Praying for the healing rain To restore my soul again… When will all my…” Jan 10, 11:59
Alf Baird on Eyes Full Of Beams: “Aye Mac, a colonized people ‘are bystanders’ in thair ain laund. And, as we are seeing by our very own…” Jan 10, 11:53
gregor on Safeguarding Is Not Right-Wing: “The Waterboys (2025): Life, Death And Dennis Hopper. Hopper’s On Top: “Genius Hurrah Genius Hurrah Dennis Hopper, man Pleased to…” Jan 10, 11:25
Mac on Safeguarding Is Not Right-Wing: “You are correct. It started with Blair and every government since then has been the same. It is very visible…” Jan 10, 11:14
TURABDIN on Eyes Full Of Beams: “Orbán cares about his country, such a novelty! Hitler is believed to have loved animals, kids, the environment and been…” Jan 10, 11:02
John McGregor on Eyes Full Of Beams: “The country will be run by Deviant’s if we let this woke “Pee” gathering any more steam” Jan 10, 11:00
Mark Beggan on Eyes Full Of Beams: “” Our greatest ability as humans is not to change the world, but to change ourselves”” Jan 10, 10:53
willie on Eyes Full Of Beams: “I could scream with face distorted ” brown, brown brown” like Yousaf screamed ” white white white” but I would…” Jan 10, 10:51
Andy Storrie on Safeguarding Is Not Right-Wing: “The idea that “the Left” flooded Britain with millions of backwards, bronze-aged thinking immigrants is for the birds. This fact…” Jan 10, 10:51
Mac on Eyes Full Of Beams: “What was Scotland’s share of the British population just prior to the ‘Union’ / colonization versus what it is now.…” Jan 10, 10:50
